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 pray for us.
The Coptic Church community in the UK today launched an appeal for support to assist the families of the 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt recently executed by the so called Islamic State in Libya. These men were all bread winners for poor rural families and the church now wishes to support the families in their…
All is now set for the 2014 LOI Consultation in Albania. 56 participants have registered from many different countries around the world and we will also be joined by several local observers. If you are unable to join us in Albania this year please do pray for those gathered and seek God’s guidance and blessing…
Following a recent meeting of the LOI board, plans are now well advanced for the next major LOI consultation. This will be a regional consultation for leaders from the Middle East and North Africa and will be held in Egypt in November 2019 at the invitation of the Coptic Church. The theme will be Christian…
The Ecumenical Patriarch said today he hoped for a continuing exchange of Orthodox and Anglican students to aid the two Churches’ relationship. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was speaking today during his welcome of the Anglican Communion’s spiritual head Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. He said, “In the past, the rapprochement between our two Churches…
At our recent consultation, Grace Mathews, who has served as Evangelical co-chair of LOI, handed on the baton to Leslie Doll. Grace writes: The Lausanne Orthodox Initiative (LOI) was born at Cape Town 2010 (CT) through its focus articulated in the Spirit of Lausanne (to be H.I.S church in humility, integrity and simplicity), and its…
The World Council of Church’s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) have just announced that the next World Mission Conference will be hosted by the Lutheran community in Tanzania in 2018 (on a date yet to be agreed). The CWME director, Rev. Dr Jooseop Keum, speaking about the theme…