Service book published in Malagasy language of Madagascar

Mahajanga, Madagascar, November 6, 2024

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A service book for priests has been translated and published in the Malagasy language.

The translation was carried out by several priests of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa, and the result was published in Kursk by the VIP Publishing House, the Exarchate reports.

Malagasy, from the Austronesian family, is an official language of Madagascar, alongside French. There are about 25 million native speakers of Malagasy.

Copies of the new publication have already been distributed to local priests in Madagascar. On October 17, Fr. Vasily Randrianaivo and Fr. Nectarios Andriamanana celebrated the Divine Liturgy in their native Malagasy at the Church of St. Nectarios in the city of Mahajanga in northern Madagascar.

The Exarchate also published a Malagasy prayer book in May 2023.

In July of this year, 140 people of all ages were baptized in the Patriarchate of Alexandria’s Diocese of Toliara and Southern Madagascar.

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11/6/2024

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