Portrait of Seraphim Bit-Kharibi, an Assyrian Orthodox Christian monk residing in Georgia, who sings in Aramaic, the mother tongue of Jesus Christ
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Fr. Seraphim Bit-Kharibi
Tamara Kurtanidze
Nino Kovziashvili
Zaza Qasoshvili
Tamari Khirdaevi
Sofiko Tevzadze
Mamuka Nacvaladze
Elisabed Suladze
Fr. Seraphim Magradze
Rusudan Atanezovi
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Follows the stories of three young children who preach the word of the Lord.
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