News Latvia Religion: SUNY Orange professor awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Professor of Global Studies and World History at SUNY Orange, Michael Strmiska, received a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship grant to teach for six months at Riga Stradins University in Latvia. Starting in the spring 2020 semester, Strmiska, a Middletown resident and 11-year faculty member at SUNY Orange, will teach religion courses in the Social Anthropology Programme of RSU's Department of Communication Studies. “Staying in Riga for an extended period, and no doubt traveling to other parts
News Latvia Religion: Soviet power gone, Baltic countries’ historic pagan past re-emerges
Meanwhile, a 2014 study from the University of Tartu indicated that 61% of Estonians believed that neopaganism was the “true” religion of Estonia. There is a similar situation in both Latvia and ...
News Latvia Religion: The Secret Picture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe That Fueled the Soviet Jewish Underground
In their effort to curb both alleged economic crimes and religious activities ... Within a few days of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak’s arrival in Latvia back in 1927—amid blaring headlines of the ongoing Paris ...
News Latvia Religion: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Woman Wins Marathon
Bracha Deutsch took first place in the Riga Marathon in Latvia on Sunday. Deutsch ... where she took first place running against a difficult field of all non-religious Israeli women. The Riga Marathon ...
News Latvia Religion: Seeing St. Petersburg and Helsinki
These are the Baltic States; Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. But we didn’t visit these ... Mind you in Russia, the Orthodox Church is the main Russian religion. But in Sweden, Estonia, or Denmark, it ...
News Latvia Religion: Saeima committee proposes amendments stipulating that Latvian Orthodox Church leaders must be citizens of Latvia
This, in turn, will strengthen public security of Latvia, which should be considered a legitimate ... Amendments are meant to prevent possible interference by the state in the autonomy of a religious ...
News Latvia Religion: With Soviet power gone, Baltic countries’ historic pagan past re-emerges
Meanwhile, a 2014 study from the University of Tartu indicated that 61% of Estonians believed that neopaganism was the “true” religion of Estonia. There is a similar situation in both Latvia ...
