January 18, 2022
Children with physical and mental disabilities were given Christmas gifts by the Moldovan Church. Photo: mitropolia.md
OrthoChristian here presents an overview of several recent reports about the Church’s social ministeries in various countries.
Belarus
The Brotherhood of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian is holding a charity event throughout the month to collect necessary items for children from orphanages, rehabilitation centers, and hospital patients in Minsk.
The collection is undertaken with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk. For donation information, see the site of the Belarusian Orthodox Church.
Poland
With the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa and the Holy Synod, the Polish Church spent more than $34,000 to feed the poor on Christmas Eve.
Romania
His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat donated $1,150 to two families whose houses burned down recently.
“We will thus buy the necessities and food for the suffering children. We can’t do it alone! Only together can we wipe away their tears,” appealed Archpriest Ioan Bârgăoanu on behalf of Met. Ioan.
Yesterday, OrthoChristian reported that Met. Ioan spent his name’s day having a feast with the local homeless.
Moldova
With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir of Chișinău, the Social Department of the Church of Moldova (Moscow Patriarchate) held a charity drive to give gifts, toys, and fruit to more than 200 children with physical and mental disabilities, autism, and Down Syndrome, and their families and teachers.
Russia
A new Church-run humanitarian aid center was opened in the city of Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan, by His Eminence Metropolitan Kirill of Kazan and Tatarstan and His Eminence Metropolitan Methodiy of Almetyevsk.
The center provides clothing and food assistance to all those in need.
And in Kazakhstan, the Social Department of the Diocese of Alma-Ata donated more than 1,000 food packages to families with many children, the homeless, the elderly, and people with disabilities during the unrest there.
Yesterday, OrthoChristian reported that the nuns of the Iveron-St. Seraphim Monastery in Alma-Ata specially baked bread to supply to the needy. The monastery also fed 300 poor people on Christmas Eve.
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