On September 8, 2022, the city of St. Petersburg, named Leningrad in the Soviet era, commemorated the Siege of Leningrad by the Nazi German army, which began on this day in 1941 and continued into 1944 during WW2. Standing in different parts of the city on this day, people read out loud in public the lists of city residents who died from starvation … [Read more...]
Trilistnik Project assists children as they start new school year
On August 31, 2022, Trilistnik Crisis Shelter, a Church of Ingria charity in St. Petersburg, brought humanitarian aid for a family with four kids. The aid effort was organized in collaboration with Varezhka Charity Foundation. The aid included school uniforms for the boys the youngest of whom first started elementary school on September 1 this … [Read more...]
Rev. Furs represents ELCIR in oblast governor’s council
On August 31, 2022, Rev. Aleksandr Furs, pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Saratov, represented The Church of Ingria and his congregation at a meeting of the Council for Interaction with Religious and Ethnic Associations, an advisory body for the Governor of Saratov Oblast. Rev. Furs was filling in for a standing member of the council as his … [Read more...]
Heads of Gatchinsky District gov’t wish happy anniversary to Dean Krylov
On August 30, 2022, heads of local government in Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Oblast, sent birthday greetings to Rev. Pavel Krylov, dean of the ELCIR West Ingrian Deanery, senior pastor of the Lutheran Church of Skvoritsy, Leningrad Oblast, for his 50th birth anniversary. English translation: "Dear Pavel … [Read more...]
St. Petersburg Lutherans and Roman Catholics join together at Levashovo to commemorate victims of political repression
On August 28, 2022, members of St. Michael's Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg (The Church of Ingria) visited Levashovo Memorial Cemetery. Levashovo Memorial Cemetery commemorates the victims of Soviet political repression between 1937 and 1954 who were executed there or died in the city's prisons and were buried in unmarked graves at … [Read more...]
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