is a monk and missionary in Africa, we welcome
you and we would like to listen from you some
of your experiences in Africa. Thank you first
of all, I would like to thank God for giving
me the opportunity to be here in Cyprus, the
land of holy people. The relation with the
people there AS FAR AS IT CONCERNS MAGIC IS
catastrophic. There is no love between people.
ONE TIME I ASKED SOMEONE, who he was having
a piece little wooden man, a ask him why do
you have this on you? He answers to me...with
this, I protect myself and my family. From the
magic of other people..and he puts all his
faith on this piece of wooden man. down there
when we do baptize people, we explain to them
to take off this magic thing from them. One
of them wasn't persuaded to take it off. As
much we try to put him in water to baptize
him was an ability to get into the water,
one invisible demonic force was pushing him
out. finally was baptized, but he wasn't really.
when he was in church for holy to receive
divine communion...he felt down having convulsions-epilepsy.
we explain to him the reasons why..but he
didn't want to listen, and he died without
confession to the truth. One day I was with
a priest down there and we see a naked girl.
The priest says to me this girl is a magician,
she came from another village far away. I
ask...how she came here from such a distance?
I ask? you don't know says the priest to me.
she came flying to the air.in order to succeed,
he grabbed a small child and tore his heart,
and drink the blood. In this way, the devils
hold the
magicians on air and they fly. one time father
iakovos was down there
in Africa and he asked one magician. how do
you hurt the people? look the magician says
I touch them and I cause them problems, do
the same to me says father Iacovos to the
magician. the magician replied I can't touch
you...you the orthodox priest are full of
fire.
one other time a devil-possessed man went
to a catholic priest to expel the demon out
of him. And the demon from inside of man says
to the catholic priest. you eh cappuccino
do you think I can hear you? this we can see
that Catholics do not have at all grace. now
I will tell you another story.3 ex magicians
went and got baptized without confessing their
sins first. the devils said to them. we don't
care what
you did, but don't mention to father Meletios.
these 3 men before getting baptized they had
killed a woman with 2 children. someone thought
saw this and found some others and went to
kill this ex-magician. now this ex-magician
did a deal with the devils, in case someone
kills me I want you to reveal to my family
those who would kill me. They took him to
bury him. An invisible force didn't allow
the coffin to be buried. The coffin was taking
the men who were holding in other direction,
Going to the house of
the people that have killed the ex magician
to reveal who killed him. At
At the funeral everyone was scared. They didn't
know what to do. The dead man started breathing
from the coffin, the son of the dead man started
talking to his father believing that his father
was alive, but he wasn't really. after revealing
the murderers and everybody was scared his
son comes to me asking for help. I took on
another priest to bury him. everyone who was
there was really scared, and all of them believe
after they saw what
we did, how we pray orthodox way to rest and bury the man. They were very scared
and believed that we had more demonic powers