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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 for failing to file tax returns on time. |
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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 not all of the 200 marchers had spiritual intentions. |
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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 camp. |
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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. |
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