Source: International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) A Continuing Partnership Brings Water and Education to More Children Since 2009, IOCC has supported the construction and upgrading of schools in rural Uganda, in collaboration with the St. Nektarios Education Fund and the Uganda Orthodox Church. These complexes provide education to children in rural areas who would otherwise have no opportunity for schooling. They also include wells and rainwater harvesting systems provided by the Katherine Valone “St. Photini” Water Fund, offering clean, safe water to both the schools and their surrounding communities. In April 2024, powerful storms badly damaged the Prophet Obadiah primary school in the…
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Source: Orthodox Christianity Athens, Greece, September 6, 2021 The Ugandan Orthodox Church was shaken yesterday to learn that its archpastor, His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah (Lwanga) of Kampala and Uganda, has reposed in the Lord, having suffered a heart attack following a long battle with cancer. His Eminence reposed in Athens, where he had gone for medical attention and mission work, reports the press service of the Ugandan Church. The Church’s Twitter page writes: “Our spiritual father has gone to meet the Lord!!! The Lion of the Patriarchate of Alexandria!!” Social media is filled with messages of condolences and of love for Met. Jonah.…
Source: Sight Magazine by JOHN SEMAKULA A top Orthodox Church cleric in Kinshasha, Democratic Republic of Congo, Metropolitan Nickiphoros, has died of COVID-19. Kampala, Uganda — The cleric’s death, which occurred on 27th July, was announced on a number of Orthodox Church media outlets including the Facebook page of the Uganda Orthodox Church on 29th July. “Metropolitan Nickiphoros of Kinshasa, Congo [,] Reposed in the Lord! He has been a strong pillar in the Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa. May his memory be Eternal always,” read the death announcement on Uganda’s Orthodox Church Facebook page. In Nairobi, Bishop Neofit…