On April 24, 2024, Archbishop Vladimir Provorov of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia and Bishop Ivan Laptev of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia met at the ELCIR headquarters in St. Petersburg. The ecclesiastics signed a Joint Declaration on Family and Marriage. The Declaration is a joint vision of our Churches on … [Read more...]
ELCIR youth take part in interfaith servant event for St. Petersburg
On April 21, 2024, young people from traditional religious confessions, including young activists from the ELCIR, came together for a servant event to clean and touch up historical monuments in St. Petersburg. It is the second time the Serving Our City interfaith volunteer drive has taken place to preserve the memory of Leningraders’ heroism during … [Read more...]
Darya Shkurlyatyeva welcomes group of university students at Vyborg church
Every year, shortly before April 9 when the Finnish church reformer Mikael Agricola (ca. 1510-1557) is commemorated, students from the Higher School of Printing and Media Technologies in St. Petersburg visit Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church in Vyborg. The group of 30 bachelor’s and master’s students were led by Assistant Professor Olga … [Read more...]
ELCIR and community volunteers clean up future exhibition site
On March 30, 2024, teams from St. Anne’s Lutheran Church (Annenkirche) and Zerno Art Group together with volunteers from The Keepers of the Ruins movement did a cleanup in one of the deserted buildings of the former Ponarth Brewery in Kaliningrad. 125 volunteers joined efforts to help kick off the conversion of the building into exhibition space … [Read more...]
Deacon Kargaltsev presents on Christian lore at St. Petersburg conference
On March 20, 2024, Deacon Aleksei Kargaltsev (left in photo), Cand. Sc. (History), MTh, participated in the 52nd Verbitskaya International Philological Conference at St. Petersburg State University. In the Bible and Christian Literary Texts subpanel Deacon Aleksei gave a paper on “The Passion of St. Marciana: a Perspective on the Structure … [Read more...]
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