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Things may seem dire for Protestants in the heavily-Orthodox, south-western Russian region of Belgorod, but that is not the entire picture. It is true, as reported in the “New York Times” on 24 April, that a small Methodist congregation in Stary Oskol was denied registration. |
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The re-election of Valentin Vasilizhenko (Moscow) as Secretary of the "Public Council" (Obshestvenii Soviet) for the next two years at its Moscow session on 27 May rings in a new, second phase of its work. |
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Future participants at Moscow´s National Prayer Breakfast will need to be ready for Moscow´s most drawn-out breakfast. That was one upshot of Pastor Vitaly Vlasenko´s attendance at Korea´s 40th National Prayer Breakfast in the South Korean capital on 15 May. |
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On 14 May, 100 helpers in white lab coats and an equal number of guests celebrated the „Brotherhood of Compassion’s” 20th birthday in its home congregation: Moscow’s historic Central Baptist Church. |
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“One doesn´t give away the chance of a lifetime!” That was the reaction of Vitaly Vlasenko, the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists´ Director for External Church Relations, following his visit to an idle construction site in Achinsk/Central Siberia. |
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For the third year in succession, representatives of Russia’s Protestant churches laid wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the walls of the Kremlin on 8 May, one day prior to the Day of Victory in WW II. |
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On 3 May, the opening service was held in a Moscow Baptist congregation with big plans. It is stated partly in jest that this congregation intends to become a megachurch. Nearly 60 persons attended the first service in the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists´ Moscow seminary. |
