Ethiopian Orthodoxy

One of our participants at the 2014 LOI Consultation will be Tekle Belachew from Ethiopia. He has just written a short introduction to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church which may be of interest to those joining us in Albania and others. Tekle himself grew up within the culture of the Orthodox community in Ethiopia, has studied in Ethiopia […]

Hope amongst Catholics and Evangelicals

Just days before the Lausanne-Orthodox Consultation takes place in Albania (15-19 September 2014) a similar group of people will meet in Chicago, USA, although they will come from Roman Catholic and Evangelical communities. Facilitated by John Armstrong, this Lausanne-Catholic Initiative was established at the same time as the LOI and has been working to create […]

Resources treasury

With the second Lausanne-Orthodox Consultation now less than a month away a rich file of resources has been added to our LOI website. With deep gratitude to two of our Steering Committee members, Dr. Tim Grass and Dr. Danut Manastireanu, we have published several pages which list resources on Orthodox-Evangelical relations, how Orthodox Christians understand Evangelicalism […]

One month to go to LOI 2014

With just a month to go before 60 participants from around the world will gather at the monastery of St. Vlash in Albania for the second Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative consultation, a whole new section has just been published on our website. Especially important for those actually participating in the consultation, these pages will also inform the […]

Opening doors in Gaza

The following article appeared on www.dawn.com recently. We republish it because it expresses the spirit of ‘open doors’ to all in need in the midst of crisis. For Gaza resident Mahmud Khalaf, it was a bizarre new experience, prostrating himself for his daily Muslim prayers beneath the gaze of an icon of Jesus Christ. But […]