Energizing the Mission
It has been years since His Eminence Metropolitan of Kinshasa started to knock on doors imploring assistance in a matter that is self-evident: the financial sustainability of the only Theological School that exists in Africa…
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Incense Scent in the Heart of Africa
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,…
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Thoughts on Mission
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…
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Where God Really Wanted…
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…
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The Mission in Southern Madagascar
With Bishop Prodromos of Toliaras and Fr. Polycarp Agiannanitis
Sunday 10 February, 11 a.m. -
The Patriarch of Alexandria blesses the humanitarian aid missions
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…
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St. John Chrysostom: All for the glory of Christ
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…
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Our new church in Ibongo
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…
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Shipments of love for Kinshasa
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…
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Christmas: a special presence for the young children of our slum
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…
