5th January 1957: Bishop Tudor Bismark is born. He is the Founder of New Life Ministries International.
5th January 2012: At least 18 people were confirmed killed by militants where people had gathered to mourn 3 Christians in the City of Mubi and a separate ambush of Christians leaving a Church service in the State capital of Yola left another 8 people dead. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the two incidents.
5th January 1527: Swiss Anabaptist reformer Felix Manz is drowned in punishment for preaching adult baptism, becoming the first Protestant martyred by other Protestants.
5th January 1066: Edward the Confessor, the only English King ever canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, passes on to glory. He was the builder of the famous Westminster Abbey, he was buried there the next day.
5th January 1964: Roman Catholic Pope Paul VI and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem, the first meeting of the two offices since 1439, more than half a millennium before.
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