Greetings from the Ecumenical Patriarch
With great joy, we received the blessings of the Ecumenical Patriarch for the election of the new Board of our Fraternity.
Greetings from the Patriarch of Alexandria
It was with great joy that we received the blessings of the Patriarch of Alexandria for the election of the new Board of our Fraternity.
Suspending hope
This year, hopefully, God willing, the construction of the classrooms at St. Athanasius School will be completed, so that next year we can move on to the next school. We need three classrooms, which will cost 1800 euros each…
Operation of a Clinic in Iringa
With our humble means and with tentative steps, we have started the operation of the Clinic in our missionary centre of Kidamali, Iringa, to which crowds of patients come from the surrounding areas.
Annunciation of the Virgin Mary and the Nations
Just as the Virgin Mary, having first surrendered herself to the providence of God, claimed her Annunciation – that is, she received the most joyful, the most shocking news that heaven ever whispered to earth – so we, too, need to surrender ourselves to the providence of God, to stand by His side, to ask Him to strengthen us in our ministry and to support us in our efforts to achieve the Annunciation of the Gentiles…
March 2018 issue (#240)
Issue #240, March 2018
Orthodoxy in Cameroon
The Sermon of the Apostle Fr. Prodromos Katsoulis, First Bishop of I.M. Cameroon
“For these children we all must become the Christ of their neighbourhood”Lecture on “The Orthodox Mission in Cameroon”
Meeting for the Mission on Sunday 11 March. Speaker Fr. Prodromos Katsoulis, Archbishop of I.M. Cameroon
The Bishop of Gaza Saint Porphyry the Missionary
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…
The responsibilities and duties of the priests of the Orthodox Church
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!”
Immediate rescue mission
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…
Read to Brazzaville, ye have helped us.
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…
