Russia has numerous “house churches ... Baxter served on a mission for the LDS church in St. Petersburg from 1992 to 1994. “Despite decades of enforced atheism under the USSR, in ...

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The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of the main attractions in St. Petersburg, drawing crowds to its ornately decorated onion domes and the stunning mosaics housed within. Alexander ...

After multiple churches were burglarized in Petersburg over a month's time, faith leaders gathered with city officials to discuss better ways to protect their houses of worship.

Flush with canals and built around water – the city curves around the Gulf of Finland, and the Neva River runs through the city center – St. Petersburg is a planned city that originated with ...

“I think maybe Russia miscalculated in choosing St. Petersburg,” he said ... Bishop Manuel Sykes of Bethel Community Baptist Church was one of several people invited to the meeting with ...

The United Methodist Church voted Thursday to allow conferences ... He founded the first Russian Methodist congregation in St. Petersburg in 1889. A few congregations were planted in Ukraine ...

The owner of St. John's Church (Peterburi Jaani kirik), a protestant church in St. Petersburg, sued SA Eesti Kontsert in Russia, which is now requesting about €72,000 from the state for legal fees.

Members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have 2,500 congregations in Russia. The Russian government has shut down several Witness organizations since the beginning of the year, most recently the church’s ...