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Sect Holds Mass Baptismal Rites
In New York the Jehovah’s Witnesses conducted a mass baptism at Orchard Beach near the Bronx, marking the largest such ceremony to date. About 4,199 women and 2,937 men, ages 4 to 9, joined 10,000 onlookers as 88 buses ferried candidates to the water for full immersion, part of the Divine Will International Assembly.
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