Prayer is key to the work of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative. We would like to remind all those committed to this initiative that we value your prayers and provide regular prayer requests on our website. Please do visit our prayer page regularly, use the short prayer requests there and also encourage your church and others to…
In his Easter address to the wider Christian community the Archbishop of Canterbury draws on the repeated phrase from the opening of the Byzantine liturgy, “Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep” to offer hope where Christians are persecuted today. Archbishop Justin Welby speaks specifically about…
During our recent gathering in Addis Ababa, we were delighted to receive the following message of greeting from His Holiness Patriarch Matthias I, head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. In the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Sprit, One God, Amen! “Behold how good and pleasant it is when brothers…
Review of THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CULTURAL REASONS FOR ANTI-ECUMENICAL MOVEMENTS IN EASTERN ORTHODOXY, by Pantelis Kalaitzidis, in The Orthodox Handbook on Ecumenism, ed. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Thomas FitzGerald et. al, Regnum Studies in Global Christianity (Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2014), pages 134-52, online at: http://www.ocms.ac.uk/regnum/downloads/Orthodox_Handbook_on_Ecumenism-Watermarked.pdf LOI is deeply interested in ways for Evangelical and Orthodox Christians…
The 23rd. International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality, it has been announced, will be held at Bose, Switzerland from 9-12 September 2015 in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches. They will meet under the title “Mercy and forgiveness”, as chosen by the scientific committee of the ecumenical conferences, which met in Bose on 4-5 October 2014….
The Unchanging Gospel in an Ever-Changing Culture Metropolitan Kallistos Ware The first of the “Engaging Orthodoxy” series of lectures at North Park University, Chicago, USA, will be delivered by the renowned Greek Orthodox scholar Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. Those unable to attend the lecture will be able to participate through the live-streaming of this important event….