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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katharine Hay

Democracy activist who fought behind Iron Curtain ordained into Kirk

A political activist who “grew up in a family of rebels” and campaigned for democracy from behind the Iron Curtain has been inducted as an associate chaplain at the University of Edinburgh.

Rev Dr Urzula Glienecke, who first began studying to be a minister in the early 1990s in Latvia – when it was dangerous to be a Christian under Soviet Union rule – has been ordained into the Church of Scotland at Greyfriars Kirk.

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