Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day is an annual public holiday celebrated in
Trinidad and Tobago
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on 30 March. The holiday commemorates the repeal on 30 March 1951 of the 1917
Shouter Prohibition Ordinance
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that prohibited the activities of the
Shouter or Spiritual Baptist faith.
Spiritual Baptists
Trinidad and Tobago is the only country in the world that celebrates a public holiday for the Spiritual Baptist faith.
It is a very important event for the Spiritual Baptists in Trinidad.
References
External links
Spiritual/Shouter Baptist Liberation Day
from the NALIS
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website
St Francis National Evangelical Spiritual Baptist Faith Archdiocese of Canada
Public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago
March observances
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