He is our beloved brother and father Barnabas, pastor and spiritual father of the unbroken Orthodox community of Lampasa, on the second large island of Fiji, Vanua Levi. The news of his passing was sudden and shocked us, because he was still young and in the prime of his missionary activity. Every Sunday and feast…
The Good Shepherd has departed. He received the call from his Lord,” Well done, good and faithful servant; … enter thou into the joy of thy lord. ” (Mat. 25:23). Father Barnabas has rested in peace. May his memory be eternal. That Tuesday, June 22, we were deeply shocked and saddened to receive a phone…
Dear Friends of Mission, First of all, I would like to thank you for your love and continued financial assistance to the missionary and charitable work being carried out in faraway India with the blessing of the Holy See of Singapore, where the Orthodox Church of India belongs ecclesiastically. We all know that the missionary…
Sunday 9 October, 11.00 a.m. in our hall
When we went to our parish churches, I noticed that they had neither baptismal fonts nor baptisteries. When we were at baptisms, another surprise awaited us. They did not have a baptismal font! Well, we ask them, where is the baptismal font? – We do not have one, they replied. We have a bucket, we…
Dear Friends of Mission, Christ is Risen! By the grace of the Risen Savior Jesus Christ, the blessings of HDB Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, and the love of His Grace Photios of Malawi , I have come to Malawi for the third time in order to contribute with my…
“My brethren, we celebrate together for the first time in this place where I have been brought by the Grace of God and the mandate of our Venerable Patriarch, whom I thank, along with you all, from the bottom of my heart. We celebrate Easter, our first common Resurrection service but in a different light;…
Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity, Despite our great joy though, we did not have the time to rejoice as it was overshadowed by the unjust and illegal religious invasion of homodox brothers, not respecting the years-long missionary struggle of our Patriarchate, using fraudulent means to scatter the sheep of the Lord’s…
This year, the good God made us once again worthy to celebrate Easter in the diocese of Kisumu as well as in the Western Kenya Mission. Not in the majestic way it is celebrated in many places, with the full of reverence and grace church services and the melodious multi-phonic chanting, the visit to various…
