For years we have watched as huge changes take place in Russia under the increasingly dictatorial rule of President Putin and his administration. Freedom of religion represents a threat to the current political agenda in Russia. Today, few—if any—foreign Christian mission groups have an official presence in Russia, having been pushed out by anti-evangelical regulations. Which is why it is crucial that we continue training national Next Generation Christian leaders in Russia through programs like Mission Eurasia’s School Without Walls. Equipping in-country Christian leaders with the training and tools to make disciples and influence their nation is the only effective approach to sharing the gospel in a country that is so hostile to outsiders.

I am writing today to inform you of a new, extremely alarming anti-missionary bill that is being considered tomorrow by the State Duma—the legislative house of Russia’s Federal Assembly. If passed, the bill would, among many…

Situl Miscarea de rezistenta a publicat recent scrisoarea tulburatoare adresata in 1965 de Charlie Chaplin fiicei sale Geraldine, care incepea atunci o cariere de dansatoare la Paris. Redau aici acest text emotionant, publicat (si probabil tradus) de Cristi Semeghin.

Dedic aceasta postare fiicei mele, Dorotheea and my daughter-in-law, Ligia, but especially to my grand daughter, Lisa.

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Fetița mea,

Sunt tatăl tău, Geraldine! Eu, Charlie, Charlie Chaplin! Știi tu, oare câte nopți am stat lângă patul tău când erai mică și îți povesteam basme despre frumoasa adormită, despre dragonul care nu doarme niciodată? Și când somnul îmi biruia ochii bătrâni râdeam de el și îi ziceam: “Pleacă! Somnul meu e țesut din visurile fiicei mele!”

Ți-am văzut visurile, Geraldine, ți-am văzut viitorul, ziua ta de azi. Am văzut o fată dansând pe scenă, o zână alunecând pe cer. Auzeam cum vorbea publicul: “Vedeți fata aceasta? Este fiica unui…

1989 – Death of Traian Dorz, a Romanian poet who served as leader of the Orthodox revival movement known as The Lord’s Army. He had suffered imprisonment, harrassment, and restriction by a hostile government and hostile church authorities.

http://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/today/6/20

The Army of the Lord (Romanian: Oastea Domnului), also known as The Lord’s Army, is an evangelical „renewal movement within the Romanian Orthodox Church”. The founder of the Army of the Lord, Father Iosif Trifa, as well as consequent leaders, Ioan Marini and Traian Dorz, felt that „people needed to come to the gospel and that the Orthodox Church in Romania needed to return to her true mission: to serve God and to represent God in the midst of our nation.” Tom Keppeler writes that „What Wesley was to the Anglican Church, Trifa was to the Romanian Orthodox Church. As Wesley’s preaching and ministry drew crowds from the working classes, so…