a separate meetings with human rights activists. the german president will also
attend an event to mark the handover of the st peter and paul cathedral in moscow
the russian government is officially returning it to the evangelical lutheran
church of russia as part of festivities celebrating five hundred years since the
reformation. an air of celebration at
a normal sunday service the last one before this evangelical lutheran congregation
in moscow officially gets its church back. lutherans are religious minority here in
russia most in the community have german roots their ancestors came to russia
centuries ago on the invitation of the czars who promised land and religious
freedom but later the soviet government persecuted lutherans and seized church
property including this cathedral the community led by archbishop to take power has
been using it again since the fall of the soviet union but so far it has remained
russian government property. with the courts here on
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