LOI wishes to pay tribute to Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, who fell asleep in Christ on 3 August 2021. For more information, see the announcement by St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary at https://www.svots.edu/
LOI wishes to pay tribute to Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, who fell asleep in Christ on 3 August 2021. For more information, see the announcement by St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary at https://www.svots.edu/
This report comes from our good friend, Ramez Atallah, Senior Advisor to the Bible Society of Egypt: Through its Sunday School movement the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt has been very committed to studying, memorizing and understanding the Bible. In the early 80s a new approach was introduced to Coptic university students which is how…
Tekle Belachew, an Evangelical leader in Ethiopia and a participant in the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative offers his observations on last month’s Temqat festival within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. “On January 19, 2016 (Terr 11, 2008 in Ethiopian calendar), Temqat (Timket) Epiphany celebrated in Ethiopia publicly by the riverbank or pond. “Temqat in Gondar” is particularly colorful…
Danut Manastireanu writes: Rev. Ovidiu Dorin Druhora, a Romanian Pentecostal serving in Los Angeles, USA, has just published, in Romanian, the result of his doctoral research on Evangelical–Orthodox relations in America. The book, for which the author kindly asked me to write the Afterword, is titled The Case for Dialogue: Protestantism and Orthodoxy [Pledoarie pentru…
Prof Aho Shemunkasho, a participant in our Cambridge consultation for theological educators, is pleased to announce a Master’s degree course in Syriac Theology at the University of Salzburg. Information & Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Aho Shemunkasho Syriac Theology Email: mast@sbg.ac.at MASTER OF ARTS IN SYRIAC THEOLOGY Course Content: – Syriac Language & Literature – Biblical Studies…
Dr Mark Elliott (Editor Emeritus, East-West Church Report, www.eastwestreport.org), has just released a book with First Fruits Press, The Arduous Path of Post-Soviet Protestant Theological Education. This is a compilation of his articles on the subject from 1993 through 2020. It is available to be read or downloaded at no charge at the following Asbury…
It is with sadness that we report the death a few days ago of Archimandrite Ephrem Lash, a noted liturgist, apologist and friend of many in different Christian traditions. Archimadrite Ephrem was born in India in 1933 and later became a priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyrateira and Great…