Malawi, July 25, 2025
Photo: exarchate-africa.ru
Several mass Baptisms have been celebrated in Malawi this year, bringing well over 100 souls to the holy Orthodox Church (see here, here, and here), and two more were celebrated earlier this month.
On July 9, Fr. Joachim Bakali, dean of the Malawi parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Excharchate, baptized 27 people at the parish of St. Theophan the Recluse in the Chiradzulu Distric, the Exarchate reports.
Photo: exarchate-africa.ru
On July 13, on the feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Apostles, 15 people were baptized at the parish of Blessed Augustine in the Zomba District, following the celebration of the Divine Liturgy.
The service was celebrated by Fr. Joachim and Fr. Clement Bwanali.
In April 2024, 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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