Sergey 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 ...

„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 ...

We representatives of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia, represented by Archbishop Malkhaz Songulashvili and Bishop Merab Gaprindashvili, and Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists of ...

Before 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. Interdenominational ...

The 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 ...

On 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 ...

Baptists 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 ...

Baptists in the city of Lipetsk, Russia, claim local authorities are using bureaucratic methods to restrict their activity. MOSCOW (ABP) -- Baptists in the city of Lipetsk, Russia, claim local ...

Surprisingly, 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. ...

Within 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 ...

Rev. 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 ...

Baptist 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. ...

Despite 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 ...

Dmitry 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 ...

The 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 ...

"Our historical friendship remains in place, even if our political authorities tend to dislike each other." That was the conclusion of Rev. Vitaly Vlasenko, the Russian Union of Evangelical ...

Russian Baptist leadership believes the election of Metropolitan Kirill as “Patriarch of Moscow and All of Russia” in the Russian capital on January 27 can be interpreted as a clear vote for openness ...

Russian minority churches have voiced cautious optimism about their prospects under the country's new Orthodox patriarch, Kirill I, after messages of welcome from church leaders worldwide following ...

“Christians should not settle their problems with each other in court.” Quoting from Matthew 7:1, Nikon, the Orthodox Bishop of Lipetsk and Yelets added: “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” The ...

European Baptist and Orthodox scholars convened Feb. 8-11 in talks aimed to promote understanding between two Christian groups often at odds over issues like proselytizing and the separation of ...