TANZANIA - Arusha
New Missionary Activities Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, It is with feelings of deep gratitude to your charitable hearts that I communicate with you trying to make you partakers of both the joy and the difficulties we experience daily on the blessed field of Mission. A year ago I wrote to you about the first solemn Divine Liturgy celebrated in Masenge village, at the Church of Saints Paisios of Mount Athos and Luke the Physician, which was still under erection. A year later, with emotion and gratitude to the Holy Triune God, I am happy to announce the completion of the reconstruction work. This project was accomplished thanks to another donation coming from your Fraternity. Once again, I would like to thank wholeheartedly all the members of the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity of Thessaloniki for
your continued support to the work carried out by our Diocese, here in Central Tanzania. It is through various activities and projects that we try, to the extent possible, to respond to the innumerable needs of our flock. In an area dominated by poverty and misery, no one can remain unmoved at the sight of human suffering. There are many times when the eyes of little children say more things and testify in the most eloquent way the difficult and inhuman daily life they have to endure. The ÂŤSt. NicholasÂť Clinic in Kintamali, Iringa, donated by the Holy Metropolis of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, in Thessaloniki, operates thanks to your monthly financial support and welcomes dozens of aching souls who fight in the stormy sea of sickness and poverty. It is worth mentioning that during
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