The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town in 2010 brought together over 4,000 evangelical Christian leaders from nearly every country in the world. But alongside these leaders were a handful of observers, including Archbishop Angaelos, then Bishop Angaelos, of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK.

Leslie Doll, who with husband Bob Doll were among the generous partners who made Cape Town 2010 possible, was walking through the hotel lobby one morning at the congress when she saw the archbishop, dressed head to toe in black, sitting alone at a table. Prompted by the Holy Spirit, she went up and said hello. He invited her to sit down and have a cup of coffee……

The shocking decline of Christian communities in the Middle East seems to be overlooked in the West.

Mohammed Girma again writes with deep insight into the place that religion can play in addressing Ethiopia’s current conflict.

Informed thinking about ways ahead in Ethiopia

Mohammed Girma writes thoughtfully and sensitively about the ethnic tensions that underlie the Ethiopian conflict