Rev. Dean Ivan Hutter of the ELCIR St. Petersburg Deanery attended the meeting of the Council for Interethnic Cooperation under the administration of the Vsevolozhsk Municipal District, Leningrad Oblast, on February 20, 2020. The meeting was hosted by the local branch of the Road of Life Museum. Ms. Svetlana Khotko, deputy administration head for … [Read more...]
ELCIR Athletic Team Takes 3rd Place in Valenki Ice Hockey
News from the Athletic Team of The Church of Ingria. On February 15, 2020, Okhta Park served as the venue of the 4th Russkaya Zima Winter Festival of Street Sports. Part of the festival was an interconfessional ice-hockey-in-valenki tournament. Valenki are traditional Russian winter boots made of felt. Seven teams representing different … [Read more...]
Laier Visits Ingrian Congregation in Gatchina
On February 16, 2020, during his visit to Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, Mr. Gerhard Laier, chairman of the Russian-German Society in Ettlingen, Germany, a sister city of Gatchina since 1992, visited St. Nicholas’ Lutheran Church. Mr. Laier attended the divine service, after which he talked with Senior Pastor Rev. Viktor Vorontsov and Yelena … [Read more...]
Students Meet with Religious Ministers in Irkutsk
On February 13, 2020, students from leading higher education institutions in Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia met with ministers of different religions and confessions. This was not the first meeting to be held in this format in the city. The students were greatly interested in asking questions and received straightforward and frank answers. The next … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev Attends Inter-Faith Discussion on Peacemaking
On February 11, 2020, Dom Druzhby (“The House of Friendship”) of the Leningrad Oblast located in St. Petersburg hosted a meeting of The Bridge of Concord, an interreligious discussion club founded at the ELCIR Theological Institute in 2016. The topic of the roundtable discussion was “Peacemaking in Interreligious Interaction.” The meeting was … [Read more...]