European foreign missions

Project “Giving a Voice” / Projekts “Kam skanēs balss”

Project “Giving a Voice” / Projekts “Kam skanēs balss”

Kristīne Briede and Līga Puriņa-Purīte. photo: Agnese Zeltiņa Project “Giving a Voice” is part of a larger audiovisual documentary project, “Garden of Anna,” led by Latvian women theologians and filmmakers. It explores the roles and impacts of European Christian...

Video: Rishi Anna / Rishi Anna

The video follows the footsteps of Latvian missionary Anna Irbe in India during a motorcycle journey in 2021, uncovering the legacy she left behind and visiting various cultural and natural sites along the way. "Rishi" refers to the Sanskrit word rishi — a spiritual...

Missionaries in India / Missionarinnen in Indien

Women in the India Mission: Biographical Notes Author: Annette Kalletka, Director of the Leipzig Mission / Annette Kalletka, Direktorin des Leipziger Missionswerks . Ester Petersson, born on 16 July 1866 in Holkaberg, Sweden. In 1890 she was called into the Swedish...

Witnesses of Faith: Anna Irbe

Witnesses of Faith: Anna Irbe

Deacon Vija Klīve’s paper on Anna Irbe at the conference “Witnesses of Faith.” Tukums, 4 December 2013 (Deacon Vija Klīve’s conference paper on Anna Irbe. English translation below — please scroll down.)...

The first women missionaries from Latvia

The first women missionaries from Latvia

Ko varam mācīties no šīm sievietēm?

Viņas varētu būtu iedvesma jebkurai sievietei, jebkuram vīrietiem – viņas saka, es ticu Dievam, bet ko tas nozīmē tālāk, ja tu tici?  Kā tas izpaužas? Vai tu kaut ko dari ar to? Vai tu mīli sev tuvāko? Aicinājums var atklāties ļoti dažādos veidos.