The Metropolitan of Nairobi and Exarch of Kenya, His Eminence Makarios, spoke with the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Maria Giachnaki this week.
Among others, His Eminence referred to the passion and thirst by the faithful in Africa for the holy services and sacraments. Additionally, he spoke at length over the strength that African parishioners receive from partaking in the Holy Penance.
Makarios, in a telephone interview, emphasized that in his 43 years as a missionary in Africa, never has the Holy Communion transmitted any disease, in a continent illnesses are numerous.
