Lausanne Congress to Tackle Emerging Threats to Mission

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20081028/lausanne-congress-to-tackle-emerging-threats-to-mission.htm

[The Christian Post] 28 oct 2008--The highly-anticipated, upcoming third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization will be addressing emerging threats and concerns to Christian missions, informed the head of the Lausanne Congress on Monday at a major evangelical conference.

With new forms of hostility towards Christianity emerging, S. Douglas Birdsall, the executive chair of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, said the 2010 gathering in Cape Town, South Africa, is needed to bring together the best minds in the evangelical world to develop unified responses to challenges to the faith.

“You might ask is there a need for an international congress that deals with world evangelization,” said Birdsall at the 2008 World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) General Assembly in Thailand.

“I would say that throughout history, such gathering is only necessary when the future of the life of the Church is threatened by some type of challenge – either internal challenge or external pressure,” he contended.