http://www.baptist.org.ru/templates/default/rss_logo.jpg8484http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/englishhttp://www.baptist.org.ru/news/englishÍîâîñòèTue, 07 Oct 2008 15:54:40 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1374On 18 September, the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists held its first conference ever dedicated to analysing the historical successes and failures of Protestant mission in post-Soviet Russia.Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:54:40 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1373Before the eyes of the European Baptist Federation’s General Council convening in Lisbon/Portugal on 26 September, Malkhaz Songulashvili, Archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia, and Vitaly Vlasenko, Director of External Church Relations for the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, embraced.Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:45:49 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1371Following a hiatus lasting nearly seven years, the “Christian Inter-Confessional Advisory Committee for the CIS-Countries and Baltics” (CIAC) consisting of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants reconvened in Moscow’s Orthodox Pilgrims’ Centre on 2 October. The sessions were entitled: “Christianity in the Contemporary World – National and Global”.Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:27:47 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1352Humanitarian and support visits by Russian Baptists in the desperately poor Georgian enclave of South Ossetia are up-and-running. Valentin Vasilizhenko from the Moscow headquarters of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists was among the most recent visitors.Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:05:23 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/media/1327Baptists around the world continued to respond with prayer and humanitarian aid to people displaced by continuing conflict between Georgia and Russia Aug. 29. Meanwhile, Russian Baptists have invited their Georgian counterparts to discuss the future.Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:59:41 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1326Caring persons living at distant locations can indeed make significant impact for the cause of peace and reconciliation in the embattled Caucasus region of Eastern Europe.Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:47:52 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/media/1328BWA President David Coffey and General Secretary Neville Callam are appealing for prayer for those affected by the conflict between Georgian and Russian forces over the Georgian breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:00 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1319Vladislav Vovk, head of the Brethren church-aligned Rucheyok (Little Creek) summer camp in Rumyantsevo near Moscow, reports that his camp is scheduled to reopen for business on 6 September. Yet he has not yet been given formal, legal assurance that his camp will ever be able to reopen.Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:03:43 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1315We believers must rise above the fray; rise above narrow, selfish political partisanship. Georgians feel invaded; Russians feel they are protecting and defending the weak and vulnerable Ossetian people.Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:02:49 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/media/1329An eye-opening visit by a Baptist Sunday school class to a Moscow hospital nearly 20 years ago sparked a project that today provides millions of dollars in medical supplies to almost 100 countries around the world.Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:06:26 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1302In late Summer 2008, Alexander Shumilin, President of the Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Kyrgyzstan, feels as if he were in the quiet before a storm. Because of opposition, the Kyrgyz parliament postponed last spring the passing of new, very rigid laws on religion.Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:03:50 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1285We are very concerned and sad about developments in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhasia – and also about the Russian involvement there. We are praying to God that he might heal the wounds and emotional hurts.Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:34:40 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1276An abbreviated interview by Russian Baptist media with Yuri Sipko, President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, on the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:23:41 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1272The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists third biannual, national congress, “Transformation 2008”, ended on schedule at noon on Monday, 4 August, near the village of Rumyantsevo west of Moscow. “It was a truly wonderful event!” exclaimed Pastor Vitaly Vlasenko, Director of the RUECB’s Dept. for External Church Relations.Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:47:46 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/media/1330Before the sun rose in Moscow on Monday, July 28, Teri Tarleton went to be with her Lord. Her son Adam and her oldest daughter Anna were away at college in the States. Her twin daughters Rachel and Rebecca were away at camp.Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:13:21 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1258The Lausanne movement is on the upswing in Russia. On 29 July, for the first time in years, a meeting of Baptists with Pentecostals and Charismatics on Lausanne took place at the Moscow headquarters of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB).Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:46:56 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1257Only several hours after a local ban had apparently been overturned, the “Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists”’ (RUECB) biannual national congress, “Transformation 2008”, began on schedule on the evening of 31 July.Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:08:14 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1237Last February, the Baptist cycling champion and church deacon Vladimir Skovpen (Klintsy near Bryansk) suffered a multiple fracture of the collarbone: While repairing a vehicle, the motor has fallen on his chest. Local police have now broken his collarbone for a second time.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:54 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1233Mobile property moves more – at least in the summer. That was one conclusion resulting from an evangelistic event on an excursion liner in the middle of Moscow on 10 July. Host was the 40-member, three-month-old Baptist congregation “Your Church”; 180 persons were crowded onto a boat intended for 150.Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:53:39 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1230„Our room to manoeuvre is decreasing.“ That was the conclusion of retired high-school teacher Klaus Schilbach (Krefeld) following his 12th visit to a partner congregation in Ulyanovsk/Volga region. Though the Baptist congregation in Ulyanovsk is engaged in a highly-successful drug rehabilitation programme in a prison with 1.500 inmates, the German guests were refused entry this year for the first time.Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:19:50 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1216Only six of the 24 congregations belonging to the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) located within Moscow city limits own their own premises. That’s major progress compared to the situation as late as the 1970s when Central Baptist Church located at Maly Trekhsvyatitelsky Pereulok 3 just east of Red Square was Moscow’s sole, officially-registered Protestant congregation.Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:41:35 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1200“Relations between the Baptists of Eastern and Western Europe are more fraternal now.” That was the assessment of the Englishman Dr. Tony Peck, General-Secretary of the 1949-founded European Baptist Federation (EBF), in a Prague interview with the Russian Baptist Union on 16 June.Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:06:03 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1192An exuberant reception by three government offices marked the first visit to Russia from 16 to 18 June of the Baptist World Alliance’s new General-Secretary, the Jamaican Neville Callam. Sergey Popov, the member of the Duma responsible for its “Committee for Relations with Public and Religious Organisations” announced for ex. the end of any need for believers “to struggle against government power".Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:08:14 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1152Things 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.Sat, 31 May 2008 14:26:28 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1147The 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.Fri, 30 May 2008 11:05:48 +0400