A new documentary being filmed in the Autumn is aiming to change the perception that Christianity is a foreign faith.
By filming the Gagauzian Church and its society, SAT-7 is demonstrating that Christianity isn’t scary, but that the faith has roots in this part of the region that go way back.
Gagauzia is an autonomous region of Moldova made up of approximately 250,000 people. The Gagauz people are ethnic Turks. They embraced Orthodox Christianity and have persevered in it for centuries, even through the immense pressure faced during the Ottoman Empire. Most Gagauzes, alongside Greeks and Bulgarians, were forcibly resettled in 1922 from Turkey and spread throughout the Balkans. Yet they did not lose their faith.
