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“Russia is a deeply troubled country and is literally becoming a dying nation.” That was the conclusion of Marilyn Murray, a US-American psychotherapist and educator specialising in the long-term consequences of childhood trauma and abuse. |
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Near the White Russian village of Imenin seven kilometres north of the Baptist stronghold of Kobrin, a sword has been transformed into a children’s camp of impressive dimensions. |
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Meetings of a Baptist delegation with government and Russian Orthodox Church officials in Voronesh on 4 June proved once again the unique status of interconfessional relations in this western Russian city. |
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Minority Christian leaders in Russia fear the government's re-establishment of a Ministry of Justice council could signal a return to Soviet era persecution against Christians. The head of the Baptist Union, Yuri Sipko maintained that the changes to the Council sought to reduce religious freedom to a level at which "everything is controlled and subordinate to a single ideology and freedom itself is banned". |
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Minsk’s “Good News” Baptist congregation has made great progress. What had begun in 1990 with a handful of believers stemming from the unregistered Baptist movement has blossomed into Minsk’s second-largest congregation. |
