On June 22, 2023, St. Petersburg together with all Russia remembers the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. On this day, the city’s residents visit Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery to commemorate the war victims. About 420,000 civilians and 50,000 soldiers of the Leningrad Front were buried in the cemetery’s 186 mass graves. During the … [Read more...]
ELCIR clergy and lay members attend SPIEF’23
Pastor Yevgeni Raskatov of St. Anne’s Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg (Annenkirche) and Nikolai Raskatov, the congregation's finance manager, attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) June 14-17, 2023. As part of the SPIEF’23 closing day’s program on June 17, St. Anne’s team participated in the Forum of Creative Business. … [Read more...]
Bishop Laptev visits Murmansk
Over the weekend of June 12-13, 2023, ELCIR Bishop Ivan Laptev visited Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Murmansk. The church is at the final phase of wrapping up construction work. It has a vibrant life with regular worship services, senior and disabled meetings, music recitals, and evening activities. Bishop Laptev attended the Hearth and Home … [Read more...]
Religious journalists meet for conference in St. Petersburg
On June 13, 2023, Senior Pastor Mikhail Ivanov of St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral in St. Petersburg represented the ELCIR at the conference “Confessional Media and Prevention of Religious Extremism. Coverage of Socially Significant Information: Pro et Contra.” The conference at Journalists' House, a journalist community center in St. … [Read more...]
Harilastiftelsen Håp and ELCIR inaugurate Agricultural Bible School in Taytsy
On June 9, 2023, a group of parishioners from the Lutheran Church of Vyborg attended the inauguration of the Agricultural Bible School at Vesenneye Solntse / Vårsol, a social village for families with own and adopted children in Taytsy, Leningrad Oblast. Cordial congratulations to school principal Eduard Gnezdilov, a Lutheran church minister from … [Read more...]
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