A man adopts Jesus Christ as his name

A resident from the Russian Urals city of Chelyabinsk has changed his name from Vyacheslav to Yeshua Ben Maryam Al-Masih, which means in Hebrew “Jesus Son of Mary, Messiah,” Chelyabinsk.ru news website reported on Thursday, RIA-Novosti reports.
The website cited Yana Goldybayeva, head of the local Federal Migration Service department, as saying that the 49-year-old man had already changed the personal information on his passport four times.
The First Regional television channel cited the man as saying that he “had always spoken with the Holy Spirit,” and that the passport with the name of Yeshua was needed for him to travel abroad and go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as well as to seek permanent residence in Israel in the future.