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"Jointly with Catholics, we Protestants want to serve the Russian nation and people to the glory of God. But we will do so without forgetting our differences.” That was the statement of Vitaly Vlasenko (Moscow), Director or the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists(RUECB) Department for External Church Relations. |
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The belief that many persons can be won for faith in Jesus Christ from a position far removed from society is mistaken. That was a general conclusion resulting from an academic symposium in Moscow on 19 and 20 October on the occasion of Russian Baptists´ 140th anniversary. |
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Russian Baptists intend to unify and coordinate their theological education programmes. That was the decision made at Council sessions of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptist (RUECB) convening in Pokrovskoe near Moscow, 16 to 18 October. |
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Without passion nothing happens. That was a central theme of the US-American Pastor Bill Hybels speaking in Russia for the first time on 13 October following a conference in Kiev. His platform was a „Global Leadership Summit“, which brought together 450 mostly youthful pastors and laity in Moscow`s „Rossa“ (Dew) free-church congregation. |
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The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) has hastened to the defence of Alexei II, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. He had faced broad criticism following his speech – and the discussion thereafter - at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France on 2 October. |
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In a farewell visit with representatives of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) in Moscow on 10 October, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, the departing Roman Catholic Archbishop-Metropolitan of Moscow, called for joint charitable projects between Russian Catholics and Protestants. |
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„The Baptists of Western Europe are not ´liberals´, they are simply different from us in some ways.“ That was the conclusion of Rev. Vitaly Vlasenko (Moscow), Director of the Russian Baptist Union’s „Department for External Church Relations“ following his visit to the annual European Baptist Federation (EBF) Council sessions. These were held in Budapest from 26 to 29 September. |
