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...]
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...]
Congratulatory speeches of Bishop Kenzhebek Botobayev, ELC of Kyrgyzstan, and Rev. Aleksandr Burtsev, Kazakhstan
Congratulatory speech of Bishop Kenzhebek Botobayev of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kyrgyzstan, February 9, 2020: “Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ! I am thankful to God for giving me an opportunity to visit you in the Church of Christ. Thank you very much for inviting me. I am very happy to be attending this celebration today, the … [Read more...]
Congratulatory speech of Bishop Seppo Häkkinen, ELCF
Congratulatory speech of Bishop Seppo Häkkinen of the Diocese of Mikkeli, The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, February 9, 2020: Dear Bishop Ivan, dear Brother in Christ, You received a great gift of God when you were ordained as the Bishop of The Church of Ingria today. At the same time, God gave you an important task to serve the Church of … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 59
- 60
- 61
- 62
- 63
- 64
- Next Page »