It was announced this month that Dr. David Platt is to serve as the new chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group. Dr. Platt, from the USA, is President of the International Mission Board (IMB), a Baptist mission which supports 4,000 missionaries around the world. In this role he has travelled extensively in the USA […]
November 2015
LOI reports on Consultation in Finland
We are pleased to announce the publication of the report of our recent LOI consultation “Gospel as Good News” in Finland. Copies of the report can be downloaded here. You are also able to still access almost all of the papers delivered in Finland this year on our website at https://www.loimission.net/loi-2015-papers/ Copies of our recent […]
Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom: Following Christ Together
The Global Christian Forum have just concluded their consultation, entitled Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom: Following Christ Together. This global gathering of 145 people took place from 2 – 4 November, 2015, in Tirana, Albania, a country that was declared by its constitution to be an atheist state in 1967, and now has flourishing churches in a […]
Fr. Ioan Sauca awarded honorary doctorate
Father Ioan Sauca (centre of picture), a key member of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative Steering Committee has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Transylvanian Babes Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Fr. Ioan serves as associate general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and director of the Ecumenical Institute at […]