How Imam Hosseini's love attracted the thought and mind of a Kenyan bishop.
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Documentary Arbaeen titled Light from the Sun featuring film director and featuring Bishop Njiriri as Bishop Steward of Revival Pentecostal Church
Documentary Arbaeen titled Light from the Sun featuring film director and featuring Bishop Njiriri as Bishop Steward of Revival Pentecostal Church (a branch of African indigenous churches) in Kenya which oversees 200 indigenous churches across the Republic of Kenya. At Iran Cultural Centre in Nairobi. Bishop Njiriri was the founder of the church and was appointed as its president in 1984, he has served in the post for over four decades.
Mr. Bishop Najiriri, who came to the Iran Cultural Council Nairobi to watch this movie and to appreciate the director of the film Brighter than the Sun and also Iran’s cultural Council, said: I respect the place I have in Kenya and also among the indigenous Christian churches of Africa after receiving I had an invitation, counseling to make this trip in my church and in my family and they all opposed me with this trip but in the end I responded positively due to the beautiful feeling created in me and made this trip.
He said: The Arbaeen journey was sacred for me and filled with love and faith, and I felt that I was committed to the center of sacrifice and the center of love, and this trip was in line with the goals set out in the Bible for me. Every moment of this trip was a memory for me and despite the hardships of the trip, we were not harmed and the kindness that we had in the marriage of Imam Hussein on the way, I have never witnessed it in any center, country or local area, so this trip was memorable for me. And will be and the spirituality of this journey will be my light in life and future.
After my trip to Karbala and on this journey like no other in the world I came back to my country Kenya and all the church members and family were waiting to hear from me what happened and I recounted the memories of the true love journey to hundreds of people It was amazed and blessed by this spiritual and romantic journey that when I arrived in Kenya I was consecrated by the president of Kenya as an exemplary bishop and when I saw the picture and story of the consecration in the relevant magazine I was assured that it was to The blessing of Arbaeen journey has been.
He added at the end how good it is for free people to touch this journey and I wish you all friends to do this journey too.