Nkhotakota District, Malawi, April 30, 2025
Photo: exarchate-africa.ru
More than three dozen souls were united to Christ in Holy Baptism in Malawi on the eve of Pascha.
From Holy Friday, April 18, through Holy Pascha, April 20, the dean of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate in Malawi, Fr. Joachim Bakali, visited the parish of the Apostle Thomas in the Nkhotakota District.
On Holy Saturday, April 19, the priest baptized 40 people from the Chewa ethnic group who had previously undergone catechism, the Exarchate reports.
Photo: exarchate-africa.ru
On the feast of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, the newly illuminated received the Holy Mysteries for the first time.
Last April, about 1,000 Malawians were baptized in one week. At the same time, the Catechism of St. Nicholai (Velimirović) was published in the Chewa language, translated by Deacon Savva Kajava, and distributed amongst parishioners in Malawi.
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