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The Fourth Lausanne Congress has just ended. How should we continue to accelerate global mission together in the years ahead? Many factors would impact the future of global mission. In this issue, we look particularly at four factors: leadership...

AI and the Great Commission Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant prospect, it is already reshaping how people live, learn, and connect. From search algorithms to translation tools, from automated communication to pastoral applications, AI...

The Global Charter of ConscienceEngaging Resurgent Islam in Malaysia: Challenges and opportunitiesThe Impact of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Ministry to MuslimsEuropean Immigration Policy: Lessons and challenges for the churchA 21st Century...

Global Trends, People Movements, and their Impact on Mission Futurist Patrick Dixon offers seven dimensions – Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical, Ethical, and Spiritual – which he says will shape our global future and then outlines the...

A Landmark Encounter The Asian Church Leaders Forum (ACLF) held in Seoul in June 2013 seemed at first like any other international conference, writes Ezra Jin. “However, for the representatives of the house churches in China, it was a conference...

Christianity in Sri Lanka ‘Christianity in Sri Lanka today is simultaneously vigorous, fragile, and persecuted’, writes Kamal Weerakoon. The social effects of a long civil war make Christian living difficult. Buddhist nationalism dubs evangelism...

Lausanne ’74 Billy Graham once said that perhaps the most significant contribution in his ministry was the 1974 Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization and the resulting Lausanne Movement. ‘This year we commemorate the 40th anniversary of that...

Responding to the Challenge of Boko Haram ‘Boko Haram’s ideology has four main features’, writes John Azumah (Lausanne Senior Associate for Islam and Associate Professor of World Christianity and Islam at Columbia Theological Seminary,...

The Challenge of Radical Islam ‘For many evangelicals, jihadi groups are obscurantist, primitive, and ferocious, embodying all the prejudices associated with the supposed ‘essence’ of Islam’, writes John Azumah (Associate Professor of World...

Sexual Violence in War ‘The use of sexual violence (SV) has become a specific tactic in modern conflict’, writes Olivia Jackson (freelance writer and speaker, focusing on social justice and human rights law). Access to civilians provides a...

In this issue we focus in three of our articles on the impact and legacy—five years on—of the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation held in Cape Town in 2010. Lausanne’s Renewed Engagement in Global Mission ‘During our 40th...

The State and Religious Persecution Recent Pew reports document an increase in official intolerance and restriction of minority religious faiths to unprecedented levels, noting that they are far more likely in countries where one religion or...

Engaging with the Women’s Mosque Movement ‘Women in mosques are not new in Islam’, writes Moyra Dale (Lausanne Catalyst for Islam). There have been women leaders and teachers throughout its history. However, the women’s piety movement is a...

This issue of LGA has as its theme Leadership, inspired by the fact that the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG2016) took place in Jakarta in August. Six Leadership Lessons from YLG2016 ‘It usually takes decades to see the fruit from this...

Surfing the Third Wave of Missions in India ‘While Christianity in India is as old as Christianity itself, the Protestant Christian missions in India—spanning three centuries—can be broadly classified into three waves’, writes Prabhu Singh...