http://www.baptist.org.ru/templates/default/rss_logo.jpg8484http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/englishhttp://www.baptist.org.ru/news/englishÍîâîñòèSat, 27 Dec 2008 19:47:54 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1542The mass media inform us that an upcoming session of the esteemed United Nations will deliberate on the matter of removing discriminatory clauses against persons and organisations practicing or espousing non-traditional sexual orientation.Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:47:54 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1539Dmitry Pitirimov, a Baptist lay pastor and computer programmer by trade, believes it takes a miracle to be a successful Christian businessman in today’s Uzbekistan. In a conversation in Berlin in early December he stated: “Without miracles, business success is not possible. But we are believers, and believers believe in miracles, right? If we attempt something in faith, then all is possible.”Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:40:45 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1525Despite the grievous social and economic problems facing their society, Dr. Denton Lotz, the retired General-Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, is optimistic about the future of Baptists in Russia.Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:35:53 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/media/1521Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Neville Callam has sent a letter of condolence to the Russian Orthodox Church upon the death of Alexy II, the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All of Russia.Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:12:00 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1514Rev. Yuri Sipko, President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, and Rev. Vitaly Vlasenko, this Union’s Director of External Church Relations, were among the roughly 500 invited guests who participated in the funeral procession of Alexei II, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, in Moscow on a rainy 9 December 2008.Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:20:06 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1510Within hours after the death of Alexei II, the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia on 5 December, a letter of condolence appeared on the website of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists. In it, the Union’s President Yuri Sipko praises the Patriarch’s “massive, unifying role in the creation of peace and consensus during the travail of Russian society in the 1990’s."Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:50:03 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1492Surprisingly, Baptist relations with the government are better in Transnistria – a narrow, 202-kilometre-long stretch of land which broke off from Moldova in 1990 – than in Moldova proper. Transnistria, squeezed in between Moldova and Ukraine, is a close ally of Russia.Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:59:28 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/media/1487Baptists in the city of Lipetsk, Russia, claim local authorities are using bureaucratic methods to restrict their activity.Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:57:50 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/media/1481Baptists in the town of Lipetsk south-east of Moscow complain that the authorities are using "a bureaucratic way" to restrict their activity. Two of their local congregations have lost legal status for failing to file tax returns on time.Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:32:03 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1441On 4 November, an annual Orthodox procession was held from the central Orthodox cathedral in Lipetsk to the “Church of the Trinity’s Conception” in the outlying region of “Sokol Metal Workers”. But not all of the 200 marchers had spiritual intentions.Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:55:00 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1437The ethnic-German Baptist Hermann Hartfeld from Brühl/Germany grew up in Omsk/Siberia. He was arrested for his missionary efforts in 1962 at the age of 20 and sentenced to five years in a labor camp.Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:29:16 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1422Before the end of 2008, Moscow’s “Christian Inter-Confessional Advisory Committee” (CIAC) is planning to send a delegation of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant leaders to Georgia.Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:09:07 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1418We representatives of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia, represented by Archbishop Malkhaz Songulashvili and Bishop Merab Gaprindashvili, and Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists of Russia, represented by the Revd President Yuri Sipko and the Revd Vitaly Vlasenko, met in Kiev on 30th October 2008.Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:39:00 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1414„Our brotherhood is alive and puts its decisions into action.” That was the response of Yuri Sipko, President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, to the news that donations from congregations this year would far exceed the amount given in 2007.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:46:32 +0300http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1409Sergey Ryakhovsky, Bishop of the Charismatic, loosely-structured, 2.000-congregation “Associated Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical-Pentecostal Faith", has voiced strong support in the past for the Russian administrations of Putin and Medvedev. He has on that basis defended Protestant interests against nationalists bent on eliminating the evangelical witness from Russia.Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:51:29 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1394On 15 October, a declaration unexpectedly appeared on the webpage of the Russian Ministry of Justice listing 56 religious organisations scheduled for liquidation. These stem from a number of major world faiths and included Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, the Catholic “Caritas” as well as small, dissident Orthodox groups.Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:12:27 +0400http://www.baptist.org.ru/news/english/1381From 9 to 13 October, the World Public Forum’s “Dialogue of Civilizations” convened on the Greek island of Rhodes very close to Turkey for its 6th annual session. A Russian Baptist was invited to the Forum for the very first time.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:34:10 +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 +0400