Where the sky smiles and the earth assents, there is a miracle unfolding in front of you, as Orthodoxy takes its first steady steps! This time we are here in Southern Congo at the Holy Diocese of Katanga, whose see is in Kolwezi. Reaching this destination, you behold a small organized city: St. George’s Church,…
Traveling to Africa for the first time, I came across an unprecedented landscape… An awesome scenery of rare beauty and uniqueness was unwinding in front of me, but at the same time unknown and dangerous, perhaps because of the many diseases that plague the black continent. It seems that varied and intense feelings are generated…
Wherever one serves the Lord and the Church, it is there that he finds joy and rest. This is the law and the criterion. The distinguishing feature which makes the man truly attracted and renders him unable to resist this inconsolable power, this mystical calling which will not hesitate to ask for even the ultimate…
With Bishop Prodromos of Toliaras and Fr. Polycarp Agiannanitis
Sunday 10 February, 11 a.m.
On Sunday 27 January, volunteers at our Brotherhood’s warehouses loaded another container with humanitarian aid for Ivory Coast. Twenty-five tons of food, clothing, household equipment, church supplies, etc. left Thessaloniki and have already started their journey to West Africa. His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visited our facilities in Filiro and blessed the volunteers who…
According to the synaxarist of Saint Nicodemus of Mount Athos, John Chrysostom came from Antioch and was the son of pious wives – the Commander-in-Chief Secundus and Saint Anthousa[1]. He was born in 354 AD.[2]. Secundus died shortly after the birth of his son, leaving the young mother a widow, who preferred not to remarry…
Dear Brothers in Christ, Lately, in the blessed field of Mission and always by the grace of God, we have experienced many and great blessings which I wish to share with you because to a great extent, we owe their realization to you. On July 30th, we conducted the service for the laying of the…
The Mission is a constant course towards the Kingdom of God. A liberating bugle call to the humankind that is tormented by heresies, pagan traditions, subordination of men to the ruler of this century, the devil. In this struggle, there are times that you feel the earth move under your feet and yourself sink, you…
The birth of Christ, the King and Ruler of the universe, is an event that truly shocks every Christian believer. God, out of His infinite and boundless love for the people He created, came from heaven to earth. Thus, He became man, so that all of us who are here on earth can become like…
Dear friends of the Mission, We are writing these lines to share with you the joyful events in Malawi. We all know how important it is for our Orthodox Church to consecrate a church. How holy and how sacred it is. And this holy event took place a few days ago here in this third…
