addiction

Nalchik’s Baptist drug counselors

Around 1,000 Christian Baptists live in majority Muslim Kabardino-Balkaria. One member of the community, Chechen man Ruslan Osmanov, told OC Media about how his new-found religion helped him to find his place and to break with a life of crime and addiction. I was invited to the meeting of The Good News, a Christian Evangelical community in Nalchik, by their leader Ruslan Osmanov. It was an ordinary Baptist meeting. At first, people gathered in a small room, sang religious songs with a gu