Today we launched a programme mentoring young leaders in LOI. A group of Evangelical and Orthodox leaders from around the world joined some board members, and shared what they are doing to engage across the traditions. Irini Pantellou and Grace al-Zoughbi didn’t make it but they are also part of this group. You will see these faces (and the older board members’ faces) at LOI events in the future. 
We are pleased to be able to publish the following short review of In Africa: Orthodox Christian Witness and Service by HE Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of Albania who was the host of the first two LOI international consultations and continues to encourage us in our work together. “My sisters and brothers, on behalf of the…
Christian faith is a journey which sometimes takes us across traditions, an experience that lies at the heart of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI). LOI has organised a Zoom gathering to stimulate conversations about spiritually enriching journeys, especially encounters between the Evangelical and Orthodox Christian traditions. You are warmly invited to attend this one-hour Zoom event,…
His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, and Co-Chair of LOI has issued the following statement following the murder of Ethiopian Christians in Libya The confirmation of the murder of Ethiopian Christians by Daesh (IS) in Libya has been received with deep sadness. These executions that unnecessarily…
We are very grateful to Deacon Gill Kimber for allowing us to share a copy of her dissertation paper MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?: Developing an understanding of the task of interconfessional mission with reference to the Romanian Orthodox Church and Romanian evangelical and Baptist churches in Transylvania here on the LOI website. Gill’s extensive and challenging paper…
The well known evangelical missiologist, Dr. Chris Wright (pictured), who sadly was unable to address the LOI consultation in Albania last year has kindly shared with us two papers on mission which we will publish on this website. The first, downloadable here, relates to last year’s consultation and is entitled : Integral Mission and the Great…