On Sunday, June 22, the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity completed its humanitarian aid program for the 2024-2025 period by sending two new containers to Ghana and Bulgaria. The loading of the containers with goods weighing 16 tonnes and 10 tonnes respectively took place at the Fraternity’s warehouse in Filyro, Thessaloniki, with the blessing of His Eminence…
How 24 schismatic priests and 5,000 faithful returned to the Orthodox Church!
Full coverage and video highlights from the presentation of Metropolitan Daniel of Accra, in which he recounts the miraculous event of the recent conversion of 5,000 heterodox Christians in Ivory Coast.
The Holy Diocese of Accra and West Africa was founded in 1959. The Diocese was served by worthy Hierarchs, among them Patriarch Petros of blessed memory. As it is based in Accra, it is often thought to be limited to Ghana only. But it also includes the states of Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali….
Ivory Coast – the name alone sounds interesting. It is, of course, reminiscent of another era, a tough one, that of colonialism. The colonists then gave the countries names after the products they took from them. One night, from those typical of such tropical regions, my predecessor, His Eminence Metropolitan Narcissus of Naucratis, very wisely…
The Orthodox Mission in Africa always stands at the forefront. The second-in-hierarchy Patriarchate of Alexandria, wisely led by its steersman, Pope and Patriarch Theodore II, cares primarily for the spiritual ministration but also at the same time for the relief of the poor and the ailing. Faith is interwoven with deeds. Whatever we say, any…
For the first time in the two-thousand-year presence of the Apostolic Throne of the Alexandrian Church, the country of Ivory Coast was visited by His Beatitude Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch, Venerable Shepherd and Father of all the Orthodox Christians throughout Africa. Frantic preparations were made for the distinguished visitor. Everyone was in anticipation of…
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…
In Ivory Coast, which is trying to recover after years of devastating civil war, during which, among other things, thousands of innocent children lost their lives, the Archpriest Commissioner Fr. Jeremiah Benjamin, with the blessings and benedictions of His Holiness Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa, organized again the Sunday schools,…
Our fellow human beings in Côte d’Ivoire are suffering. Let us not overlook them, but let us offer a euro from our savings to help them.
