December 2018 issue (#243)
Our new festive issue is out with news and reports from 14 missionary teams
Saint Nikon: repentance and mission
He preached repentance and through that preaching he did missionary work. A paradox really… how is it possible for such a sermon to have an impact on the souls of people? And yet; it is, and very naturally so, since he was calling souls to return to their natural state, their pre-temporal relationship with their Creator, to their full rest, whether they were Christians or not…
The race continues in Madagascar
The large number of people coming to Orthodoxy has created many parishes, which are deprived not only of parishes but also of Churchs. Already, with the help of God and pious donors, two new Churchs are under construction and we hope that they will soon be finished and operational…
Saint James in Tanzania
Very early in the morning, hundreds of students began to arrive at the newly built school to attend the consecration ceremony of the first Orthodox school in Morogoro Prefecture, in a new fruitful missionary effort in eastern Tanzania, where the majority of the inhabitants are Muslims!
Orthodoxy in Madagascar
“The people welcome us with great joy and sitting under a tree, where there is no Holy Church, they watch the catechist with great attention and silence.”
- Diocese of Accra | Ghana | Hero | Stories
Patriarchal visit to I.M. Accra
His Beatitude did not conceal his joy for this unprecedented, unprecedented, reception accorded to him by the faithful people of Accra, emphasizing in particular the spiritual role of the Patriarchate and the untiring interest of both himself and the Metropolitan concerned, together with his associates, clergy and laity.
Open door of faith
Such a mission needed a bold call and vision. Missionary work up to that time had only been done on the African continent. In Latin America, Orthodoxy was something unknown, remote and confined to the East. With patience and perseverance the Metropolitan opened the door giving us the opportunity to know and recognize that Orthodoxy is not a national Christian denomination but the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ….
The Orthodox Mission in the Western Congo
Presentation by Metropolitan Nikephoros of Kinshasa
Sunday 9 December, 11.00 a.m.The Light of Christ among the Orphans
n the two years since the establishment of our Diocese, we have started a scholarship program to help poor children study. We have also opened the St. Tabitha Orphanage and School, which houses 30 children…
After Crucifixion, Come God’s Blessings
Fr. George is a native priest with plenty of pure, selfless love inside him. In a very short time his congregation has grown large enough to fill the church, and there are still new people coming to embrace Orthodoxy…
The Most Sacred and Difficult Task
In Africa, since the problem of people’s daily survival is dramatically and desperately pressing and there is no end to it, the challenge is painful. The need leads to the ministry of the tables (in the broader sense), thus the daily dual struggle between the need and the divine service of preaching divides the missionary apostle and penetrates his heart like a double-edged sword…
Those Voices of Theirs…
Our Orthodox Church, once she decided to deal with Mission Overseas, set as her priority, among other objectives, these small, innocent creatures…
