http://baptist.org.ru/templates/default/rss_logo.jpg8484http://baptist.org.ru/news/englishhttp://baptist.org.ru/news/englishÍîâîñòèWed, 16 Dec 2009 11:03:38 +0300http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2161Many Russians are only now re-learning Christmas: There was no official Christmas holiday in Russia between 1925 and 1992.Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:03:38 +0300http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2160In Russian Baptist circles, worship teams and Christian pop have not yet dispatched mixed choirs and string quartets into oblivion.Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:22:46 +0300http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2159In a letter addressed to Kirill, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, on the day after the assassination of a priest, Yuri Sipko, President of the RUECB, appealed for joint efforts and prayer to “break the negative tendencies cropping up recently in our society”.Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:17:53 +0300http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2109Pastor Aleksey Vasilevich Smirnov is scheduled to succeed Yuri Sipko as President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in March 2010.Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0300http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2071The “Public Council” of Russia’s roughly 10 Baptist denominations will need to shift from the past to the future. That was one conclusion of its 10-hour-long session in the Moscow offices of the RUECB on 23 October.Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:29:43 +0300http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2060Our readers must surely be confused. On 22 October, our department published a report on the protest of our RUECB against new draft legislation greatly limiting the freedom of Christian mission.Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:29:48 +0300http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2047New draft legislation introduced by the Russian Ministry of Justice on 12 October will, if it becomes law, greatly curtail religious freedom in Russia. On 20 October, the RUECB published an open letter addressed to Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation.Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:34:29 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2043In 1992, a congregational plant in the north-western district of Tushino began as a hopeful outreach of Moscow’s “mother hen”: the historic “Central Baptist Church”. But by 2002 Tushino was no longer a Baptist congregation.Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:26:11 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2042On 4 February 2010, a multi-confessional rally championing the values of the Christian family is scheduled to take place in Moscow. That was the primary result of a meeting of nearly 20 church leaders at headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchy in Moscow on 15 October.Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:21:19 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2019„That which occurs in the world, also occurs to a lesser extent among us. We also are subject to temptation.” That is how Pastor Sergey Babich reacts to the fact that pastors also fall into sin and dependencies.Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:14:10 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/media/2001I was part of a team of 10 people from LifeWay who went to the southwestern Siberia city of Novokuznetsk July 16-26 on a LifeWay-sponsored employee mission trip.Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:34:52 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/2000The religious upbringing of children is the task of parents. That was the view of Yuri Sipko, President of the RUECB, in an interview with the alternative Orthodox “Portal-Credo” news service in Moscow on 9 September.Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:22:13 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/media/2002Visit Russia with a mission in mind — that is what Dr. Sam Roberts, pastor of First Baptist Church in Stuttgart, and four other people did from June 1 through June 12 this year.Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:37:59 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1993Ukrainian Baptists have like no other East European Baptist union made a successful leap into the public limelight. That was apparent during the four-day-long celebrations in the Ukrainian capital marking the 400th birthday of the global Baptist movement.Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:33:33 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1957A US-American active in Russia reports that the Southern Baptist Convention needs only five seminaries to support the ministry of its 16 million members.Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:42:00 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1952“Baptists in Western Europe are growing weaker - the global Baptist movement is moving eastward and southward. Baptist youth of today live in Africa, Asia and Latin America.Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:05:30 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1949The ethnic-Kazakh evangelicals of Kazakhstan sometimes describe their conversion as a return to the roots.Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:57:53 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1948The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists’ Department of External Church Relations plans to recommend to its Union Council that the church rejoin the Geneva-based “Conference of European Churches”.Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:01:57 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1906Just in time before the start of summer holidays, Uzbekistan’s Baptist children’s camp, “Radost” (Joy) in the mountains outside the capital city of Tashkent has been closed.Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:07:01 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1892“Our expectations were not fulfilled.” That was the response of Rev. Vitaly Vlasenko, Director of External Church Relations for the RUECB, following the first official visit of Barack Obama as US-President to Russia.Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:13:14 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1877“Russia is a deeply troubled country and is literally becoming a dying nation.” That was the conclusion of Marilyn Murray, a US-American psychotherapist and educator specialising in the long-term consequences of childhood trauma and abuse.Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:28:39 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1864Near the White Russian village of Imenin seven kilometres north of the Baptist stronghold of Kobrin, a sword has been transformed into a children’s camp of impressive dimensions.Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:54:38 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1841Meetings of a Baptist delegation with government and Russian Orthodox Church officials in Voronesh on 4 June proved once again the unique status of interconfessional relations in this western Russian city.Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:02:06 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/media/1840Minority Christian leaders in Russia fear the government's re-establishment of a Ministry of Justice council could signal a return to Soviet era persecution against Christians. The head of the Baptist Union, Yuri Sipko maintained that the changes to the Council sought to reduce religious freedom to a level at which "everything is controlled and subordinate to a single ideology and freedom itself is banned".Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:34:56 +0400http://baptist.org.ru/news/english/1831Minsk’s “Good News” Baptist congregation has made great progress. What had begun in 1990 with a handful of believers stemming from the unregistered Baptist movement has blossomed into Minsk’s second-largest congregation.Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:04:57 +0400