Nun stops suicide surge in a village of the Amur Region

Nun stops suicide surge in a village of the Amur Region

Nun stops suicide surge in a village of the Amur Region

Moscow, April 14, Interfax - An Orthodox nun managed to stop suicide surge
among the residents of Otvazhnoye village of the Amur Region, Russia.

From 1970s, the whole families of the village have committed suicides. People
willingly killed themselves almost every month. This trend was turned around
only when the former agriculturist Galina Neuman had taken the monastic vows
and established a parish, reports Wednesday a Far Eastern issue of Rossiyskaya
Gazeta.

Galina Neuman, now Mother Domnikia, came to live in the village about 40 years
ago. After her elder son had hanged himself, she began regularly attending the
church and decided to establish a parish in place of the dilapidated state
farm office. She spent the whole amount of her retirement pension to renovate
the building. However, her initiative found no support with her home-folks who
used to insult her and even spit her in the face.

After the parish was opened, people brought their whole families to take
baptism. Those who used to spit the nun in the face were the first to ask for
baptism. The residents of the village ceased to kill themselves on their own
free will. Only one man committed suicide during the last three years, because
he could not stand the agony of cancer.

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A suicidal surge as described in the synopsis can be argued as, and construed as empirical proof of the Metaphysical concept of good and evil spiritual influences on the general population regardless of the level of belief and/or none belief of the subjects/victims.