In an interview with the magazine „Christian Herald“ from the far eastern city of Blagoveshchensk, Rev. Yuri Sipko, the President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) ...

Ioann, the youthful Archbishop of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, graciously received a Baptist delegation in his residence on 16 November. The city administration also granted the Moscow-headed delegation ...

Evgeny Bakhmutsky (Moscow), four years on as Director of the Department for Youth Work for the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB), believes the Baptists of Russia have something ...

Inter-confessional highlight of a five-day visit to Voronesh by the ensemble Blagovestie (Proclamation) was a concert on 23 November in the city´s Orthodox seminary. In his talk there to 100 ...

An open letter condemning Moscow’s “Russian-American Christian University” (RACU), appeared in the Communist-supported “Sovietskaya Rossiya” newspaper on 25 October. The letter, signed by ...

Marcelo Mauricio Santos, a Reformed pastor, preached in Moscow’s Second Baptist Church on 25 November. That’s not an every-day occurrence in Russia: a black person holding Christian sermons in the ...

In a meeting between the „Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists“ (RUECB) and Germany’s „Federation of Evangelical Free Churches“ (BEFG) in Elstal near Berlin on 3 December an obvious truth ...

At the vital conference of 150 representatives of church unions within the Baptist tradition in Moscow on 16 February 2007, Yuri Sipko (Moscow), President of the Russian Union of Evangelical ...

Diana Kondratyeva sees the road to freedom not in the struggle for women's rights, but rather in prayer. Director of the Women's Department for the “Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists” ...

Superintendent Victor Semyonovich Ryaguzov from the Preobrazhenie" (Transformation) congregation in Samara on the Volga wanted to do the Baptist preachers of Russia a good deed. “We do a lot for ...

Since 1 November 2007, Simon Alexeevich Borodin has been serving as the new Provisional Director of Missions for the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) in Moscow. Contingent ...

Since 1 November 2007, the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) has a new department and an additional Vice-President. Its first “Vice-President for Financial Services” is Leonid ...

Get moving and not wait too long on church headquarters. That’s the strategy the Germans Klaus and Inge Schilbach used to launch what is apparently the sole partnership between a congregation ...

Abortion was the prominent form of contraception in the former Soviet Union. One therefore finds older women in Russia who have had as many as 20 abortions. Russian Baptists want to do something ...

On 10 February a missionary expedition under auspices of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) got underway. This one is called „The Gospel for the Peoples of Siberia“; it ...

On 4 March, Pastor Yuri Sipko, President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB), congratulated Dimitry Medvedev on his election two days before as President of the Russian ...

The Russian Alliance is alive and its work is advancing quickly.” That was the conclusion of Vladimir Ryaguzov, Chairman of the Russian Evangelical Alliance (REA), following its fifth annual ...

Russian Baptist headquarters are expecting great things from this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, scheduled for Moscow’s President Hotel on 18 March at 9.00 a.m. More than 250 politicians, clergy, ...

“One snowflake cannot make much difference. But a billion snowflakes can bring Moscow traffic to a halt.” That was one statement made by Rick Warren, Senior Pastor of California´s 22.000-member ...

Russia’s National Prayer Breakfast, held in Moscow on 18 March, is bigger than ever. New records were set with over 350 businessmen, pastors and middle- to upper-level politicians - including 50 ...