Dear Friends of Mission, The eruption of Hunga Tonga volcano, located 60 km northwest of the largest island in the Kingdom of Tonga, became known around the world. It is there that our Church, with the help of many Orthodox Christians and many of the readers of your blessed magazine, has built and still continues…
Cash flow statement for the fiscal year 2021
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has been affecting millions of human beings, the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity was forced to suspend its in-person events for a second year in a row. Coronavirus has been spreading death, and we really felt this sorrow, losing close affiliates, such as the late Nikiphoros, Metropolitan of Kinshasa of blessed…
Meeting with Metropolitan Ambrose of Korea
on Sunday 27/2 at 12.15
Presentation with Bishop Agathonikos of Arusha on Sunday 13 March, at 11.15 a.m.
Meeting with Bishop Timothy Torres of Assos
on Sunday 13/2 at 12.15
Wednesday 29 December, 21.00
via ZOOM
80 years have passed since the death of the first missionary in sub-Saharan Africa, father Nicodimos Sarikas, the “saint of Kilimanjaro” as the natives called him. Father Nicodimos lived through the difficult years of imperialist cruelty on the African continent. He started from Smyrna in the blessed land of Ionia, whence a long and tedious…
On Saturday, October 22, I accompanied His Eminence Metropolitan of Nairobi to distant parts of the Diocese of Eldoret. The purpose of this long tour was to perform the funeral service of an elderly and dignified lady who was one of the founding members of the Orthodox Church and of the local school. His Eminence…
Just a few decades ago, the famous Jean Paul Sartre, immersed in the latent Western tradition rooted in himself, exclaimed: “l’enfer, c’est les autres” (hell is other people). Whoever they are, known and unknown; the face of every person whom I will encounter. In the process of relating to the others, something steals my time,…
