Word: okhotin
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Okhotin’s devout Baptist faith has been a defining force in his protracted legal battle. He has said that his father, Vladimir Okhotin, was detained by Soviet authorities for several years in the 1980s for no crime but his activist Protestantism—and Andrew Okhotin and his supporters have said they have no choice but to wonder if lingering contempt for Protestants on the part of the Orthodox authorities is behind his ordeal this year...
...Okhotin said that he thought his trial might have been scheduled in advance for Wednesday because Aug. 13 marked the forty-second anniversary of the start of an underground church movement...
Among many other sources, perhaps the greatest pillar of support for Okhotin since March has been the Baptist community, which has organized numerous prayer vigils and letter-writing campaigns on his behalf...
Susan Clark, who has been active in such activities, said that she contacted “a leader of the large Mennonite community in Paraguay” to pray for Okhotin as soon as she heard of his trial’s start this week...
...Christel N. Clark—Susan Clark’s daughter and a friend of the Okhotin family, who was present in Moscow for the trial—said she thought thousands of Baptists the world over were praying for Okhotin...