For three months now we have been facing a serious operational problem in our Mission whereabouts. The consecutive storms that hit our area have caused major damage. One of the calamities is this: the lake from which they drew water to distribute to the people has been filled with sand. There is no more water,…
The Mission in Sierra Leone was founded in December 2007, after His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore II gave his blessing to the then Archimandrite Fr. Themistocles Adamopoulos to minister to a nation in pain, the much suffering nation of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone had never seen Orthodoxy before. That was the first attempt to evangelize and…
The moment I am writing these lines is a few days before Judgment Sunday. How stunning the words of our Christ are! What does He tell us? That the criterion of judgment will be how we behaved towards our brother. Towards our suffering brothers, the sick, the imprisoned, the thirsty, the naked, the needy… My…
This is the century of Orthodoxy. The central theme and the big question though is: “Are we ready to respond to the great request that many people make to know our faith, Orthodoxy?” I believe that it is necessary to consider seriously creating within the theological schools disciplines that deal directly with the subject, in…
By fr. Prochoros Manuk Allo, priest in Jakarta, Indonesia The first time I met him was in 2007 when I was an altar boy after becoming Orthodox in 2004. That first meeting in Jakarta gave me the impression that he was a person disciplined at times and a firm and strong personality as regards leadership….
By Geron Metropolitan Makarios of Nairobi • Part II In this regard, we quote the exact text from Fr. Chrysostomοs’ diary notes where he describes his arrival in Kampala and his first meeting with the then Metropolitan and our African brothers: – “It was almost 10 am when we arrived at the rented abode of…
By Charalampos Metallidi, board president Venerable Fathers and brothers of the Mission, Tonight at our gathering we are honoring the 60th anniversary of the founding of this historic fraternity and its offering to the command of the Lord, ”Go ye therefore, and teach all nations”. In a historical reference, our thoughts take us back to…
On Sunday, December 10, 2023, an event was held at the Ceremonial Hall of the University of Thessaloniki for the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity. The event with the general title “Memory of Holy Missionaries” was dedicated to 4 pioneering persons of the Orthodox Mission in the African continent: …
The Orthodox Missionary Fraternity has completed 60 years of creative missionary presence. The timeless values that it conveys to all the missionary teams in every part of the world remain stable and undefiled in its historical course. Values such as the worth of man, respect for human life, recognition of self autonomy and freedom of…
