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===Europe===
===Europe===
European Baptist Federation (EBF) is a regional arm of the Baptist World Alliance. EBF has more than 800,000 Baptist members in 51 unions or conventions from Portugal to Russia. In 2009 it sponsored "Amsterdam 400," celebrating 400 years of Baptist history in Europe.
European Baptist Federation (EBF) is a regional arm of the Baptist World Alliance. EBF has more than 800,000 Baptist members in 51 unions or conventions from Portugal to Russia. In 2009 it sponsored "Amsterdam 400," celebrating 400 years of Baptist history in Europe.
=== Russia ===
''See also:'' [[Restrictions on religious activity and/or religious persecution in Czarist, Soviet, and contemporary Russia]]
According to a 2006 report of CWNews: Baptists, Pentecostals and [[Catholic]]s and are among the Russian religious groups to complain of police failure to protect them from attacks or other unwarranted intrusions during church services, or of police raids to preclude them conducting religious activity-- such as the giving out religious literature- - which they regard as legitimate.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060629083510/http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=44638 Whose side are police on? Russian Christians ask], CWNews.com, 2006</ref>
== Baptist Distinctives ==
== Baptist Distinctives ==