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MOSCOW (AFP) – Hundreds of truehearted Orthodox Christians in Russia hit subscribed up to a newborn service to obtain "sacred texts" -- brief messages from the Scripture sent to their ambulatory phones.

Nearly 3,000 subscribers hit subscribed up for the service that sends excerpts from the Scripture and other churchlike works, said Father Iosaph Sorokin of Voskresenie (Resurrection), the Moscow-based Orthodox youngness assemble that launched the service terminal month.

"This is an possibleness to remind grouping of unending values," he told foetoprotein on Sunday, as newborn requests for subscriptions arrived on his ambulatory phone.

The project, dubbed the "Kind Word", offers the text messages for liberated and can be subscribed up to by sending a communication to the group.

"We would same the subscription to grow, especially in Siberia and the Far East," said Sorokin, adding that uplifting text messages could help residents of Russia's far regions in their regular lives.

Other churchlike groups hit also co-opted modern technologies to accomplish out to the truehearted with, for example, romish Catholic ambulatory phone users in aggregation able to hold to obtain messages of regular guidance from the Pope.

The Slavonic Orthodox Church has enjoyed a renaissance since the 1991 collapse of the officially atheist state Union, with the citadel vigorously promoting ties between the Church and state.

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