Matthew, a Pious Maasai
One day after my return to Arusha, I see at my door a tall, thin lad in the characteristic Maasai dress and with a broad smile on his face. It was Matthew…

One day after my return to Arusha, I see at my door a tall, thin lad in the characteristic Maasai dress and with a broad smile on his face. It was Matthew…

While the taxi was passing outside the Church of Sts. Athanasius and Cyril though, the woman heard the same voice say the same words: «If you want to be saved, go inside this church and do not go to hospital.» Once this happened, the woman lost her senses and collapsed…
For the first time in the New Testament, he gives the disciples on the mountain – and therefore all of us who want to be disciples of Him, the revealed God – a commandment: ‘listen to him’…

The Pygmies are a noble people. Although in earlier years they systematically avoided contact with whites in particular, since they had suffered from them during the years of colonialism, they are social with values, principles and secrets of the tribe that they strictly guard, consciously refusing to leave their ancestral homes and embrace the modern “Western” way of life…

Thanksgiving to the Holy God in the Trinity, a heartfelt fulfilment of the Eucharistic desire to be found among old associates and friends, but also to be found, even for a short time, among the flock entrusted to him twenty years ago by the Lord of the Vineyards, for the first time in sub-Saharan Africa…

The moments we are experiencing are overwhelming. The Mayan faithful are actively involved, young and old alike, singing the Lord have mercy, the Parashu Lord, the Amen and Christ is risen. The foundations of the Temple shake with the dynamic expression of their Orthodox faith…
Presentation by Metropolitan Demetrios of Irinople
Sunday 14 October, 10.30 a.m.
It is impossible to have missionary activity without delivering to our brothers and sisters the unadulterated Orthodox doctrine; mission is the offering of the true faith, the only faith that leads to salvation…
They only have a straw hut used as a church building when the Divine Liturgy is performed, but whenever there is heavy rainfall, it crumbles and has to be made again from the beginning…
Finally came the time of externalizing feelings with the simple but vivid in content addresses of our siblings in Christ, clergy and laity, through which they expressed their feelings of love as well as their sadness for their Shepherd’s falling asleep in the Lord due to bad health and old age, but for another more important need as well…

All of you who are here I want to congratulate you because you continue to sacrifice, despite the crisis, to help in your own way.

With great agonies and much struggle and anguish in the 20 years of the life of the Orthodox Diocese of Nigeria, new parishes and communities were created