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Taoist (and Med Student) Baptized into the Orthodox Faith

September 9, 2013 By Fr. John 4 Comments

Note the length of his catechism – old ways are sometimes the best ways. In the Church of the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of Odigitria of Gonia in Kisamos Kolimvari, His Eminence our Metropolitan Mr. Amphilochios officiated the Baptism of a student with a scholarship of the 5th year of medicine, Tsai Chen Wei, a Taoist, […]

Filed Under: Taoist Tagged With: catechism, Metropolitan Amphilochios, Taiwan, Taoist, Tsai Chen Wei

The First Steps of Orthodoxy in Rwanda

August 29, 2013 By Fr. John 2 Comments

by Julia Bridget Haye With the Grace of God and following the strenuous efforts and prayers of his Eminence Innocent Bishop of Burundi and Rwanda, the first steps of the Orthodox Church in Rwanda began. On Saturday 17 -8-2013, His Eminence accompanied by Fr George Schinas and hierodeacon Nektarios Stogiannis and a team from the […]

Filed Under: Featured, JTO Blog, Latest Stories, Missions, News Tagged With: orthodox, Rwanda

Axios! Afrikaans Culture Award for Two Orthodox Priests

August 26, 2013 By Fr. John 5 Comments

From the Khanya blog. Yesterday we went to the Voortrekker Monument for a ceremony in which two Orthodox priests, Fr Zacharias van Wyk and Fr Kobus van der Riet, were given special awards for their contribution to Afrikaans literature and culture by translating Orthodox liturgical texts into Afrikaans. The awards were made at an event […]

Filed Under: Latest Stories, News Tagged With: Afrikaans, award, orthodox, priests

Former Taliban from Afghanistan Baptized on Mount Athos

August 18, 2013 By Fr. John 10 Comments

All these years after work I would go to the outside of the churches in the beginning – something was pulling me there – and afterwards I began to enter within. I would become calm. As my Greek was getting better, I wanted to know more about Christ. I found a New Testament, however it was in a language I did not understand [Koine Greek]. Eventually I found a blue one in the Greek I had learned. I began to read it. I decided that I wanted to become a Christian.

Filed Under: Latest Stories, Muslims, News Tagged With: convert, Mt. Athos, orthodox, taliban

Orthodox Mission Comes To The Felicianas

August 17, 2013 By Fr. John 5 Comments

The Orthodox view church as a hospital for a sick soul, where you receive medicine, where you receive healing. … This is one place where it’s OK not to be OK.

Filed Under: Baptists, Missions Tagged With: Fr. Matthew Harrington, Fr. Seraphim Bell, Rod Dreher

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