Kyrgyzstan has imprisoned 150 persons convicted of religious extremism and they are bad influence on inmates of correctional institutions.
On January 19, 2016, the feast of Holy Theophany, the 42nd mass baptism of infants took place at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. 659 infants became new godchildren of His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia.
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On January 19, 2016, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Agafangel of Odessa and Ismail, the Monastery of St. Elias in Odessa organized the traditional Theophany immersions in the sea near the Lanzheron beach.
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"The baptism of the Savior in the Jordan prefigured the baptism that we all, either as infants or as adults, embrace in order to enter the Church. Some of us might not remember our baptism, but there is no man who could have become a member of the Church without going through the purifying waters of the baptismal font."
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Salah Farah, deputy head of the Mandera township primary school, stood up for Christians when a bus they were on was attacked by al-Shabaab terrorists before Christmas.