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, go to megafon in the nineteenth year , about a hundred clergymen from africa immediately turned to us, they did not agree with this split, the russian orthodox church patiently waited two years for the patriarch of alexandria to correct his mistake and withdraw his

recognition. he did not do this, and in december 2021, the patriarchal exarta of africa was created. very difficult. she separates the churches. today, as the patriarchate of alexandria, they must come to their senses. when there was a split between the patriarchy of alexandria and the moscow uh, we decided that now we can and want to be created, uh, our

parish is russian orthodox russian the orthodox church has ceased to delegate powers to the greek orthodox church of alexandria since the 21st of december with the creation of the patriarchal zarkhot. in africa, the russian orthodox church has taken on the mission of spiritually nourishing orthodox christians in africa, this is its responsibility and this mission is greater. we will not delegate to anyone. it’s one

thing for a dark-skinned person just on the streets of moscow, and it’s a completely different thing when you see a clergyman in full vestments, who is just like us. uh, pray uh, pray partially in church slavonic. in fact , people treat people with love, people understand that we are not a church, we need to look at the russian orthodox church for a long time at the church of the ecumenical bridge. as for me personally, for me the african continent, i was there for 9 years to the representatives of the patriarch of moscow under the patriarch of alexandria, and i traveled almost all of africa . i am familiar with the mentality. with pleasure. i work there, level, russian megashak

orthodoxy after 988. the first such powerful historical breakthrough, when we take responsibility for the souls of one and three billion people in africa , now russia and the russian orthodox church in africa is being carried out. moscow pedagogical state university here in moscow at e, department of russian language studies in order to

subsequently e-e go to our moscow theological schools constantly missionary group replaces one after another. uh, in africa we teach russian. we are constantly calling in groups of our priests from the patriarchs from the mouth of africa here to moscow to improve their skills. we train them. we make sure that the divine service is performed exactly as a sagra, according to the liturgical tradition in the eyes. first of all, many of them never traveled anywhere. and when they see the beauties of the spiritual beauties of our fatherlands are numerous temples and monasteries. they have the opportunity to come into contact with the great saints, and they stand powerfully.

sergiev’s father and mother are the rector of an orthodox church in the capital of tsar bangui and one of the first priests from the continent who, as part of the mission of the patriarchal exarchate of africa, received a spiritual education in russia, this story, which became very significant in my religious life, when, at the invitation and with the blessing of the metropolitan leonid i went to moscow it was my first trip to europe, i really traveled a lot

in africa and here is europe russia moscow i have very warm memories , i saw with my own eyes that moscow is holy land. it seemed to me that almost every 100 meters there is a temple or a monastery , a journey to the holy moscow land. in moscow, i learned the story of st. sergius of radonezh. i was on an excursion in the monastery of father simeon the archimandrite. he told me about the life of st. sergius. i was very impressed and the metropolitan blessed me to bear his name , a great name that has great significance in russia throughout the world. we pray to sergius of radonezh, who supports us in our deeds. russia prayed a lot for

you. family praying for our country for our church orthodox christian. the tsar led a new life under the auspices of the russian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate. before that, i made many liturgy mistakes, but i learned a lot. and now all the services are conducted in accordance. appreciate, i received my first philosophical and theological education in cameroon of the byzantine orthodox church and eight years later was sent to the tsar to found the very first orthodox parish. it was not an easy path. we were able founder with god's blessing, but unfortunately, it was not a canonical church, and we began to look for a canonical one and thank god with his blessing. today, i am an orthodox priest at the door

of the moscow patriarchate, and i am very happy about this. first of all, it was necessary to strengthen the people. uh, spiritually support them and, uh, express to them words not just of support, but also of gratitude for the fact that they are relatively many of them recently converted to orthodoxy were completely. we have young african priests. they are so firmly, uh, stood uh on the canons of e- orthodoxy of universal orthodoxy and understood that their patriarch was leading them into schism. and they courageously declared their disagreement .

the situation of schism is very difficult, it divides the churches today and those who went to slime, like the patriarchate of alexandria , the patriarchate of constantinople, they should come to their senses, these are our desires for which we pray, every day we pray for peace. the french in 1960 practically did not stop armed conflicts , there were moments when they fired from all types returned to the people to preach.

once a shell was fired at our church , part of the vov wished that it did not hit the building itself; landed right behind our wall were rebels from the village of kiantibalaki, who fought with government troops with peacekeepers in minuska and sangaris. so, it was a war in which we were victims. i myself once they took me hostage at the stations , they needed my car to transfer their fighters, there were moments when they pointed the muzzle of a machine gun at me and threatened to kill me, these are bad memories. i wouldn't like to talk about it anymore. i can only forgive. i forgave it and continued to pray. for peace for our country

, its army and leader, we pray that jesus christ will give us peace, that the church will flourish, and we can continue to preach the gospel of the lord that gives freedom to all denominations. we have catholics, who are in the majority here, there are protestants and muslims, even buddhists. there are those who also call themselves orthodox. they pull the blanket over themselves, but they don't really belong to the true apostolic succession and are not canonical , they resort to lies to invite people into their communities. this is problem. she needs to be decided. otherwise, our strength lies in respecting the choice of each and every one. numerous

military and political crises people feel lost, many have no job or a job that allows you to buy just a little bit of bread. we have a lot of orphans and a lot of unemployed people, and they pose a great danger to society , often they arrange brawls and our task here is to invite them to church and offer them become orthodox christians, so that they drink, participate in youth movements , give up what causes more to the inhabitants. good morning love. drama here we have children aged 3 to 5 years.

they speak four languages ​​in sangon french english. it is such a grace that these children have the opportunity to study and join religion, and we say a big thank you to his eminence metropolitan. leonid, thanks to the donations of the orthodox , we were able to equip this building for a school. and now the children our children are having fun study russian. with great respect, i always wanted to work with them, and children also love me in moscow, there is a lot of attention from children. i got, of course. my skin color was unusual for them, but i think that there is something else that naturally connects me with children.

i do farming. i myself have 10 children, only one of them is my own, the rest are adopted. some have parents from diseases and others died in the war, but we try not to tell them that they have no parents. i am their parents. they call me papa me and father used to have 27 children in our family. someone has grown. someone went their own way, the younger ones. they left a very good spiritual education, but it’s hard for me to be alone in a huge country in which we really need priests of people who diligently

sing in the choir from the bottom of their hearts help me during the service, who also want to enter russian. theological seminaries and we very much hope that we will receive a blessing for this. loss of a century russia where and where is africa and where is this split, what can there africans understand? this is a very pernicious, uh, delusion, and i will say why it is because the same greeks, the same europeans , the same representatives of the collective west still treat africans as, uh, their colonies and occupy there with nothing but colonialism, let's call things our own names. we said we don't want anything from you.

we really don't need anything. if you want to hear the truth about christ, we are ready to bring it to you. we are doing missionary work there now. you have no idea how low the level of knowledge about christianity is essential in general in summary. i 'm not talking about orthodoxy, because as long as our percentage of the population is relatively 1.3 billion, orthodoxy is relatively small. i think we are now working with the communities that were. let's call them e near-orthodox. yes, they had certain, uh, traditions, certain fellowship, but, nevertheless, the fullness of orthodoxy in christ, uh, the dogmatism of the canon. and most importantly, they did not have a correct iklisiology, that is, the doctrine of salvation.

moving from central africa to eastern part of the continent in the savannah of tanzania we in the masai tribe are a unique semi-nomadic

people, ignoring the lure of civilization. they remain faithful to age-old traditions. this drawing on my face is part of our culture, so everyone else can understand the drawing that i belong to a tribe , the masai conquer with their beauty neat, shaved heads thin physique beaded jewelry bright capes and sticks in the hands of men, reminiscent of a copy of incredibly bright and original. and it seems that

we look like savages here, white guests from russia greedily, looking at their beauty. our life is cattle breeding once upon a time, our ancestors did not know any other food, except for that which was given to them by their cows. today, the diet of the tribe, the masai, is mixed, because we already belong to another generation. they often come on

excursions, but you can’t get to this tribe being a tourist. they agreed to receive us, because we are accompanied by orthodox priests respects the traditions of the tribe acquaintance, we start with dancing. sometimes it matters. one of these ceremonies we hold during the rite of initiation, when a boy becomes a man and is initiated into the war. but what we're

dancing tonight is a welcome dance. this is how we welcome guests. this is a sign of our respect. matchmaking is considered to be the man who jumps higher than the more hardy warrior and hunter.

this village is interesting to us because the maasai orthodox living here, this glade under a large sprawling tree - this is a local temple. people gather here and the service will begin very soon. started looking for a place to hold a service. we realized that rent a separate house will cost. it is very dear to us, then it became clear to us that we can perfectly conduct a service on wood. yes, this excludes the meeting during the rains, but in the heat its branches make it pleasant for us to walk. we place icons depicting christ and

the virgin here on wood. we set up a table near which people gather, as we will at the altar. on fridays and sundays, i run over the people of this village for church services and instruct them in matters of faith, on wednesday. we are rescuers we analyze stories from the old covenant on friday. we read the gospel on sundays, a divine liturgy is held , again due to the peculiarities of the local climate, for example, it is not always possible to hold scheduled meetings on time due to rains. the name of the tribe is translated as speaking the masai language, they mostly speak only massai. and we often read dry prayers. sometimes. it

can be very difficult to understand this year. we would like to involve some members of the tribe in translating prayers into their language, then it would be easier for them to understand the essence orthodox texts. by sermons, about which he convinced people that the greek church had departed from the divine law, the russian orthodox church follows the right path. and now we support it. when the missionaries of the greek church arrived in our area, they did not promise to build a church for us, a hospital and a school. however , later their promises were never fulfilled, they built only the church and did not bother with the issues of its further maintenance. the transition to the bosom of the moscow

patriarchate turned out for the inhabitants of this villages a serious communal economic dispute. we used one well for the entire community. however, when i joined the russian orthodox church with my supporters , fellow villagers fenced themselves off from us and we found ourselves without access to clean drinking water , which was our problem. we described in an appeal to vladyka and told him that a fellow village belonging to a clone of the greek church and oppressing us did not want us to be able to use water from the well. well, of course, all this does not lend itself to any comprehension in terms of. everything is far from here christianity. it's far from moral. and here it’s even far from some ethical standards, when , on the contrary, we know all our lives that africa needs food in pure drinking water, take it and say that oh, yours, you are now e russian to russian gone. well, let

the russians give you water, but the russians gave water. we got it done in a month and a half. they have their own water source. moreover, we do not divide orthodox people there and or non-orthodox, if there are other settlements nearby, which also come and come and draw water from this pure source. e of drinking water from this deep-water well, which we have ennobled, which now serve here for the benefit of people, thank god, for a little over a year we have been actively developing our activities at the moment we are present, 21. in the country, e, dozens and hundreds follow us thousand. er people, we are actively developing our mission in terms of humanitarian presence in terms of educational presence hmm and uh, separate, of course. it is necessary to say the words that at the moment russia has understood that africa is not so distant a continent and first of all. he is close to us in mentality,

africans are also largely conservative, just like we are in the fields. eh, africa, we find a lot of like-minded people. and potential plan your dreams. find out in advance the amount and conditions for all loans available to you. calculate the credit potential in sberbank online right now and apply for a loan. at the lowest rate in sberbank from four percent for the first month. safe accommodation verified for no surprises payment to the owner after check-in 24/7 support. if still a couple of questions remain.