Famous African politician converted to Orthodoxy
Former Deputy Prime Minister of African Gabon Bruno Ben Mubamba received the church name Vladimir and was baptized in Moscow.
The former press secretary of the Odessa diocese, Archpriest Andrei Novikov, who today serves in one of the churches in the Russian capital, reported this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today, on the day of the Baptism of Rus', the Lord vouchsafed to receive the ex-Deputy Prime Minister of Gabon Bruno Ben Mubamba into Orthodoxy with the name Vladimir (at his request). Bruno is a very educated person; he graduated from one of the elite educational institutions in France (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris). We talked with him for a long time about faith; he is well versed in the differences between Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
There is joy in the heart that a person has found the Truth so far from home, and made an absolutely conscious choice. Understands the problem with the Alexandrian Patriarchate. Returns to big politics at home. This will be the first Gabonese Orthodox politician in general, especially at this level,” Novikov wrote.
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