Pray

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…

Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK, who is one of the co-chairs of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI) was given the prestigious Coventry Cross of Nails at Coventry Cathedral, UK, during the Easter Sunday service last month.   The Coventry Cross of Nails is recognised throughout the world as a symbol…

St Michael’s, a small makeshift chapel serving mainly Orthodox Ethiopian Christians among the migrants living in “The Jungle” refugee camp in Calais, was among several parts of the camp that were bulldozed by the authorities this week. A mosque was also destroyed. The charity Help Refugees, UK, said, “Sad to report that the Church has…

We have just uploaded onto our website, as a resource,  a link to a lecture given by Dr. Tim Grass, a member of our LOI Steering Committee, delivered recently at Spurgeon’s College, UK. The lecture on Evangelicals and Eastern Christianity starts with an historical overview of contacts between the two communities and moves on to look at…

In a video message shown at the opening of the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Busan, South Korea, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, called on Christians to “pray for the peace of the whole world and for the unity of all”. More than 2,000 participants from…