Bishop Emeritus Arri Kugappi greets TV viewers on the occasion of the Nativity of John the Baptist celebrated on June 24 in the calendar of the ELCIR. A telecast in Viestit Karjala, a Finnish-language news program on Rossiya 1 Karelia, a regional channel of VGTRK, a state-owned broadcaster which operates many television and radio channels in 53 of … [Read more...]
Lutherans and Catholics commemorate Soviet-era Baltic deportees
On June 18, 2022, Rev. Fyodor Tulynin, pastor of St. John’s Estonian Congregation of the ELCIR in St. Petersburg joined Rev. Anton Tikhomirov, DTh, deputy archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia and rector of its Theological Seminary, and Fr. Konstantin Perederiy, parish priest and rector of the Roman Catholic Theological Seminary … [Read more...]
Rev. Luchagov attends training in applying for gov’t grants in Karelia
On June 15, 2022, Pastor Vitali Luchagov of the Lutheran Church of Segezha, Karelia, attended a project training conducted by workers of the Grant Foundation of the Head of the Republic of Karelia. The training, which was held on the Segezha District Administration premises, gathered active citizens of the city and the district, workers of … [Read more...]
Nizhny Lutheran church hosts children’s retreat, teaches English
From June 14-16, 2022, the Lutheran Church of Nizhny Novgorod hosted a children’s English language retreat with a native English speaker and English language teachers. Original post in Russian … [Read more...]
Kingisepp Lutheran church cooperates as local gov’t guards ethnic & religious peace
On June 15, 2022, Senior Pastor Anatoli Leshchik of Yamburgsky Lutheran Church of Kingisepp, Leningrad Oblast, attended a meeting of the Interethnic & Interconfessional Relations Council under the Kingisepp District Administration. Its agenda included the following items: - status of the migration situation - countering terrorist and … [Read more...]
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