Statement from His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, co-chair of LOI, on the death of Queen Elizabeth II

In the week that the UN registered its one millioneth Syrian refugee the Syrian Orthodox Church has elected one of its Archbishops from the USA as the new Patriarch of Antioch and all the East. This follows the recent death of Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas. The new head of the church, His Eminence…

As the third international Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative consultation begins in Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday this week, the Steering Committee request pray for all those attending.  The theme of this year’s consultation is “The Gospel as Good News“.  The sixty three Evangelical and Orthodox participants will be gathering from countries as far apart as Ghana, Syria, USA,…

Plans are now well in hand for the Second LOI consultation which will again be held in Albania at the invitation of His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios.  This year we expect around 55 Orthodox and Evangelical leaders to gather for a week in September. Invitations went out last month and already a good number of people…

Whilst Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative participants gathered in Helsinki, Finland, last week, a symposium was held in Oxford, UK, to celebrate the completion of the Edinburgh 2010 series of books on mission and unity.  The series, published by Regnum Press, now includes over 30 volumes on topics raised by the international Edinburgh 2010 conference. Speaking at the…