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Thessaloniki Summer School
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have announced a very interesting three week summer school for 2014 under the title “Learning about Orthodox Theology, past and present”. It will take place from 23 June to 12 July 2014 and will be taught in English. Full details can be seen here Summer School
Rethinking Missio Dei in Eastern Europe
Recently published in a series of monographs from Langham Partnership is Vladimir Ubeivolc’s Rethinking Missio Dei among Evangelical Churches in an Eastern European Orthodox Context (ISBN 978-1-78368-104-4). The context is Moldova, and the author argues that the concept of Missio Dei offers a key place where the Evangelical and Orthodox traditions can not only dialogue…
WEA Secretary General meets Ecumenical Patriarch
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) reports that, “Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, Secretary General of the WEA recently met with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, in Istanbul, Turkey. Together they discussed the current crisis and the plight of Christians in Syria, Iraq and the Middle East region. A specific emphasis of the conversation was on…
Center for Early African Christianity
One of our LOI participants from Ethiopia, Tekle Belachew, has drawn to our attention to the very interesting work of the Center for Early African Christianity. This Center is seeking to recover the important missional history of the African Church, a Church which provided some of the key theologians of the first centuries of the…
LOI co-chair receives Cross of Nails
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…