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The Pearl of Great Price

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Sep 22 Mega-funerals and Brother Baght Singh

September 21, 2025 • Tim Byron • Season 9 • Episode 22

Today in 2000 we remember how a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to the evangelist Bakht Singh who was being buried in Hyderabad, India. It was one of the largest funerals in the history of Hyderabad, but not in India, when compared to other historical figures,