March 2012 issue (#216)
Issue 216 of the magazine “Foreign Mission”
Rays of Orthodoxy in Sierra Leone and the Gambia
Memories from the Missionary and Pastoral Visit of the Patriarch of Alexandria to the Diocese of Sierra Leone, by Fr. Themistocles Adamopoulos
From the Patriarchal greeting at the inauguration of St. Christopher’s Church
In today’s turbulent world, where religious passions are deliberately stirred up and innocent blood is unjustly shed – alas – in the name of the Almighty God, the voices of believers should be raised in protest…
Inauguration of St Christopher’s Church in Nigeria
In the context of the first official visit of the Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodoros, to the Holy Metropolis of Nigeria, on Friday 17 February 2012, the inauguration of the newly built Holy Church of Saint Christopher the Great Martyr, which was donated to the Orthodox people of Nigeria by the Brotherhood of Orthodox Foreign Mission
Mass in a straw-church
With God’s help I was again able to travel to Tanzania for a few days to complete and place the icons in 4 Holy Temples. During my short stay there, many remarkable incidents occurred, two of which I think are worth describing. On the day of the Holy Cross, we planned a Divine Liturgy in…
The missionary effort of the Orthodox Church in Northern Cameroon
The peculiarity of B. Cameroon is the difficult climatic conditions and its geographical location… six months of rain, six months of drought and extreme heat, …desert on the edge or at the end of the vast Sahara Desert…
New needs for the Iriga Mission
Repeatedly our physical integrity was endangered with the existing outdated car. At least three times Providence has protected us from a certain accident…
Another school donated by our Brotherhood in Tanzania completed
Another school that put an end to the suffering of hundreds of children, who had to walk fifteen kilometres at great risk every day to go to the school of the neighbouring village of Magubiki…
The Church of St. Christopher is inaugurated on 17 February
On 17 February the inauguration of the Church of Saint Christopher in Nigeria, donated by our Brotherhood
Financial report 2011
The approved financial statement for the year 2011
