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The “Public Council” of Russia’s roughly 10 Baptist denominations will need to shift from the past to the future. That was one conclusion of its 10-hour-long session in the Moscow offices of the RUECB on 23 October. |
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Our readers must surely be confused. On 22 October, our department published a report on the protest of our RUECB against new draft legislation greatly limiting the freedom of Christian mission. |
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New draft legislation introduced by the Russian Ministry of Justice on 12 October will, if it becomes law, greatly curtail religious freedom in Russia. On 20 October, the RUECB published an open letter addressed to Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation. |
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In 1992, a congregational plant in the north-western district of Tushino began as a hopeful outreach of Moscow’s “mother hen”: the historic “Central Baptist Church”. But by 2002 Tushino was no longer a Baptist congregation. |
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On 4 February 2010, a multi-confessional rally championing the values of the Christian family is scheduled to take place in Moscow. That was the primary result of a meeting of nearly 20 church leaders at headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchy in Moscow on 15 October. |
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„That which occurs in the world, also occurs to a lesser extent among us. We also are subject to temptation.” That is how Pastor Sergey Babich reacts to the fact that pastors also fall into sin and dependencies. |
