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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…
The Orthodox Mission Network met in Greece at the start of December. The meeting was attended by 18 Orthodox leaders from Nigeria, Cameroon, Mozambique, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus and Greece. The network, which has been active for several years, last met in Albania in September 2013, immediately after the LOI meeting that year, providing an opportunity…
The LOI Steering Committee is pleased to be able to announce that its 2015 Consultation will be held in Finland at the invitation of the Orthodox Church of Finland and with the warm support of the Evangelical Alliance. Finland has the rare distinction of having two ‘state Churches’, Lutheran and Orthodox, and makes an ideal…
Building on solid foundations laid at three previous international consultations in Albania (2013 & 2014) and Finland (2015), the Steering Committee of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI) met at The Coptic Orthodox Church Centre in the United Kingdom last week to plan its work for the next three years. The LOI Steering Committee brings together members…
The Conference of European Churches (CEC/KEK) have just announced that Fr. Heikki Huttunen, a member of the Finnish Orthodox Church and currently General Secretary of the Ecumenical Council of Finland, will be their next General Secretary. Fr. Heikki was an important participant in the recent LOI Consultation in Helsinki, as well as being one of our…
We are pleased to report on the successful annual conference of the Central and Eastern European Association of Mission Studies (CEEAMS) which was held in Heiligenkreuz, near Vienna between the 10 – 13 February 2015. Its theme was, Beyond the Iron Curtain: Being Church in Central and Eastern Europe twenty five years after the political changes. The…