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On the occasion of the Orthodox Easter on 27 April, Alexius II., the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, greeted Yuri Sipko, the President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, with Christ’s Great Commission. |
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Peter Anatolovich Lunichkin has been given a lot – which is also why he wants to give. He reports that at times there was no food in the house for him and his six brothers and sisters. So he is acquainted with the feelings of gratitude and joy that erupt when a needy person is helped in love. |
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Rather than putting major resources into PR, the Baptists of Russia should concentrate their efforts on “mutually strengthening the relations between their congregations”. They should also “plant many new congregations and improve the size and quality of their existing ones”. |
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There truly are things which function better in Russia than further West. One example are the relations of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) with world bodies such as the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and the Richmond/Virginia-based Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). |
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“Your attempt to split the fragile fellowship of various religions and confessions committed to the defence of religious freedom will fail.” That was the forecast of Pastor Vitaly Vlasenko (Moscow), Director of the Department for External Church Relations for the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB), to an open letter dated 25 March. |
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