It is with great joy that we note that another Orthodox Ι. Temple completed in Western Kenya to worship the Triune God. The joy is greater than the fact that he, along with so many others, was sponsored by a regular member of our Fraternity who wishes to remain anonymous. The Church of the Assumption…
In the early morning hours of February 10 , 2009, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, at the airport. His Beatitude was received by His Eminence Metropolitan Makarios of Kenya, the Ambassador of Greece in Nairobi and African priests. After a short rest, around noon, His Beatitude…
To the President and the members of the Board of Directors of the Orthodox Foreign Missionary Brotherhood Dear All, I wish you the New Year to be spiritually and missionary fruitful and to sanctify yourselves by experiencing the will of God. My joy in communicating with you is the same as the joy I feel…
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In this period we are going through a stormy economic storm. We hope with a good chance of navigating the straits of recession after about (3) years. Then we will encounter dangerous underwater reefs on our way out… This means constant vigilance at the railing of necessity and skillful manipulation of flexibility at the helm…
Dear, Mr. President and members of the Foreign Missionary Fraternity of Thessaloniki, rejoice in the Lord always. Allow me firstly to thank you for your continued support in our humble missionary work, and secondly to inform you of the progress of the two projects your brotherhood is funding. The high school which you financed a…
The truth is that I had no special relationship with missions. Like everyone else, I saw pictures of the children from Africa and felt a punch in the stomach… Three years ago the president of the Orthodox Foreign Mission, Mr. Vaios Prantzos, invited us to join him in Cameroon and I accepted immediately. So together…
During my last short visit to the missionary teams in Tanzania, I was very concerned about the gap in living standards between you, the comfortable people of the so-called Western world, and our brothers and sisters in these poor parts of our planet. For this reason, instead of giving a sterile description of my stay…
The destination of my trip this time was special because it included a vast country in Asia – India – the seventh largest country in the world with 3,287,590 square kilometres.It is the second most populated country in the world after China with 1.148 billion inhabitants. Throughout its history, various civilizations have been preserved for…
Rev. Metropolitan Nikiforos (Mikrajananitis, in the world George Konstantinou), was born in Thessaloniki in 1949. After graduating from the Practical Lyceum of Thessaloniki, he attended the Ecclesiastical Training School of Thessaloniki (1967-1969).In 1975 he graduated from the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and in 1999 he was awarded a doctorate from the…
