The concern that church leaders have shown for Christians suffering for their faith since the first Lausanne Congress in 1974 has grown so much that most of a day and night was devoted to persecution at the fourth Congress in South Korea on Wednesday.
After releasing the Seoul Statement just before the start of the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism this week, the document’s editorial team adjusted two paragraphs that speak to the issue of the Church’s response to homosexuality.
The Seoul Statement released by the Lausanne Movement at the Fourth Global Congress on World Evangelism is not a new, stand-alone response to the missional challenges that the global Church is facing today. Instead, it builds on the legacy of the Lausanne Covenant, the Manila Manifesto and the Cape Town Commitment.
Billy Wilson called on Evangelicals to open their hearts to being “accelerated” by the Holy Spirit to witness for Christ to keep pace with a fast-changing world grappling with speedy developments in areas of general knowledge, technology, inventions and science.
“Will there be room for new voices, will there be space for surprise?” asked Valdir Steuernagel in a speech he gave at a meeting of Latin American leaders in the lead up to Lausanne’s Fourth Global Congress (Lausanne 4) in Seoul, South Korea, that begins Sunday.
A personal tribute has been paid to one of England’s most beloved Christian comedians Steve Legg after he died on Monday following a brave battle against cancer lasting 17 months.
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has urged Canadian authorities to repeal euthanasia laws for mental illness, highlighting a negative effect on women with disabilities, and to create a new anti-human trafficking strategy — in a nine-page submission to the United Nations.
In the 25 years since the U.S. State Department has designated countries with the worst records of religious rights violations as “Countries of Particular Concern (CPC),” it has applied sanctions related only to those violations just three times, according to a new report.
Missionaries from all corners of the globe gathered for the first time in six years at the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Together 2024 in Manila, Philippines, with 4,500 people from 110 nationalities and currently serving in 120 countries.
“Everything that is not growing will slowly decay,” says Bambang Budijanto, general secretary of the Asia Evangelical Alliance (AEA), as he highlights the challenges facing the Church in Asia today.
