Lecture on “The Orthodox Mission in Cameroon”
Meeting for the Mission on Sunday 11 March. Speaker Fr. Prodromos Katsoulis, Archbishop of I.M. Cameroon
Meeting for the Mission on Sunday 11 March. Speaker Fr. Prodromos Katsoulis, Archbishop of I.M. Cameroon
Porphyrios, born and bred in Thessaloniki, came into the world in 347 AD. His noble and wealthy parents certainly made sure that their first-born offspring received a remarkable education. Obedient to the heavenly calling, the lad, at the age of twenty-five, abandoned his comfortable life and worldly career, departing for the desert of Egypt, the…
A great and true missionary is not the one who communicates the faith with words, but the one who lives it. He who prays with tears before the icon of Christ and the Virgin Mary, that God may enlighten all people to return to the Mother Church. The Orthodox Church is a great embrace. It embraces and expects everyone to move forward and respond to the call that Christ himself makes to them: “come and see!”
The whole spectacle was reminiscent of a biblical disaster, since there was not a single green leaf on the surrounding trees or any other vegetation. We arrived, therefore, and found ourselves in front of the Masai huts, built of dry grass. The women came out first, and then the little children. The whole spectacle was overwhelming. The people were starving…
Gabon is particularly plagued by neophyte religious movements and neo-Protestant organisations of American origin, by heresy and delusion, by superstition and the fears fostered by the leaders of traditional religions with the aim of manipulating people through the lack of freedom…
“Ghana is the most fertile ground for mission. The most meaningful support to these people is to give them the means to help themselves.”
Kyriaki 11 February, 11 a.m.
The composition of the new Board of Directors that emerged from the elections of 28 January 2018
Or, how one woman brought Christ to a whole nation.