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December 16 at 14:30 at the second Winter Orthodox exhibition at the Exhibition Center of the North-West of Russia the priest, Philip Gatari from Kenya, will conduct a prayer service in Swahili, which will be the beginning of the program devoted to the Orthodox Church in this East African country. Father Philip Gatari is priest [...]
Missionaries performed mass baptism of soldiers at northern Cosmodrome Archangelsk, September 20, 2011 Teachers and students of the St. Tikhon Orthodox Humanitarian University visited the “Plesetsk” cosmodrome near Achangelsk with a missionary program. The trip was made at the invitation of Archpriest Artemy Emke, rector of the Church of Archangel Michael in the town of [...]
Chechnya saw the first mass baptism in its history. Grozny, August 26, Interfax – Archbishop Zosima of Vladikavkaz and Makhachkala performed the first mass baptism ceremony in the history of Chechen republic in the river Terek of Naursky dirstrict. 35 citizens of Naursky and Shelkovsky districts were converted to Orthodoxy, press service of Chechen leader [...]
Children are baptized during a mass baptism ceremony in the town of Mtskheta outside Tbilisi, July 13, 2010. About 700 children were baptized by the Georgian Orthodox church during the 12th mass baptism ceremony led by Patriarch Ilia II. Georgia had a big declining birth rate until Patriarch Iliya said he would personally bless each [...]
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