Running parallel to the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI) is the Lausanne-Catholic Initiative which is exploring the future of relationships between Evangelical and Catholic Christians. They have recently released three  videos of the proceedings at their last consultation in Chicago.  You can find these videos (called “Lausanne Conversations 1/2/3” at http://www.act3network.com/videos – but you need to scroll down the page quite a way to find them.

The Lausanne-Catholic Initiative will be holding its third consultation, again in Chicago, USA from 2-5 September 2015 – at exactly the same time as the LOI meets in Finland. We will be praying for each other at that time.

Similar Posts

Bishop attacked in Egypt

LOI are sad to hear of the attack on the Coptic bishop, Bishop Makarios of Minya, in Egypt, on Monday morning (30 September) when he and his vehicle came under fire. The bishop, according to a statement issued by the Minya Diocese, was visiting the village of Garees in Abu Qerqas to offer condolences to the family…

Orthodox Missiologist appointed to key WCC post

Professor Ioan Sauca of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and a key participant in the 2013 LOI consultation, has been appointed to a  very senior staff position in the World Council of Churches (WCC). Fr. Ioan, who is currently director of the WCC’s Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, is the new WCC associate general secretary for ecumenical formation and…

One month to go to LOI 2014

With just a month to go before 60 participants from around the world will gather at the monastery of St. Vlash in Albania for the second Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative consultation, a whole new section has just been published on our website. Especially important for those actually participating in the consultation, these pages will also inform the…

Jim Stamoolis reviews Mark R. Elliott, The Arduous Path of Post-Soviet Protestant Theological Education

Mark R. Elliott, The Arduous Path of Post-Soviet Protestant Theological Education (Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2020) 190pp; freely available online at https://place.asburyseminary.edu/academicbooks/35/ We are indebted to Dr Elliott for his collection of articles chronicling the history of theological education in the former Soviet Union from the early 1990s to 2020, especially for the immense…

Caring together in Kiev

As the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative prepares to gather for its consultation in Albania (in two day’s time) we have received news from the Logos Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, where Orthodox and Evangelical Christians are together responding to a crisis. Our contact there writes, “the Logos Centre (www.kiev-logoscenter.org) have opened our doors to those internally displaced people…