Lausanne Global Analysis
Lausanne Global Analysis seeks to deliver strategic and credible information and insight from an international network of evangelical analysts to equip influencers of global mission
January 2013 Issue 2:1 Overview
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...
January 2014 Issue 3:1 Overview
Human Trafficking and the Response of the Global Church ‘Human trafficking is a global crime affecting nearly all countries in every region of the world’, writes Abey George. Between 2007 and 2010, victims of 136 different nationalities were...
January 2015 Issue 4:1 Overview
‘All of Me’ ‘In the first part of the twentieth century . . . evangelicals largely dropped social engagement, in what has been called the Great Reversal’, writes Steve Haas (Vice President and Chief Catalyst for World Vision US). We are...
January 2016 Issue 5:1 Overview
The Crisis in Syria ‘The churches in Syria (and Iraq) are facing major challenges amid the current regional crisis’, writes an anonymous Syrian pastor. The church was not prepared to deal with persecution or oppression, but is catching up...
January 2017 Issue 6:1 Overview
A Caribbean Perspective on the US Elections ‘Throughout the Caribbean, there is real apprehension about the conduct and outcome of the election’, write Las Newman (Lausanne Global Associate Director for Regions) and Minke Newman (environmental...
January 2018 Issue 7:1 Overview
Witnessing to the Gospel through Forgiveness ‘Throughout history, the Copts, the indigenous Christians of Egypt, have endured sporadic and sometimes intense times of persecution’, writes Wafik Wahba (Associate Professor of Global Christianity at...
January 2019 Issue 8:1 Overview
Can Technology Help Disciple Iran’s New Believers? ‘By God’s grace, we find ourselves in a season of harvest [in Iran]’, writes David Yeghnazar (Executive Director of Elam Ministries). While bringing the gospel to Iran remains a priority,...
January 2020 Issue 9:1 Overview
Protests in Hong Kong and how Christians should engage ‘Since June, 2019, [Hong Kong] has been in a state of unrest’, writes Francis Tsui (Board member of Asia CMS). What started as a protest against the government’s effort to push through a...
January 2021 Issue 10:1 Overview
Global church and mission leaders want to see diversity in our teams. But in reality, we seldom go beyond diversity to equality, and even less likely to mutuality where differences are not just tolerated but warmly embraced. In his article...
January 2022 Issue 11:1 Overview
The welfare of Muslim women in Afghanistan has been our great concern in the aftermath of the return of the Taliban in the country. How can the global church understand what they face in the area of education, family, and public life, in order to...
January 2023 Issue 12:1 Overview
Christianity has undergone historic demographic and cultural shifts. In the Global South, Christianity is ‘growing both qualitatively and quantitatively at a phenomenal pace in comparison to Global North Christianity,’ as stated in...
January 2024 Issue 13:1 Overview
Since humankind decided to become like God and ate of the fruit, it has been plagued with dis-ease. A broken relationship, that between God and humankind, was the first example of disease and suffering the world had ever known. A form of suffering...
July 2014 Issue 3:4 Overview
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...
July 2015 Issue 4:4 Overview
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...
July 2016 Issue 5:4 Overview
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...
July 2017 Issue 6:4 Overview
Christian Witness Amidst Disaster in Japan ‘The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 prompted Japanese churches to rethink how they engage in evangelism and church development’, writes Shoichi Konda (member of the Japan Lausanne Committee). In...
July 2018 Issue 7:4 Overview
How Spiritual Foundations Make or Break a Nation ‘Sierra Leone illustrates the often-forgotten role foundations play in determining the fortunes of a nation’, writes Bowenson Phillips (former Chief Administrator for Freetown) with Jenny Taylor...
July 2019 Issue 8:4 Overview
An Existential Threat to Christianity in Nigeria? ‘Fifteen-year old Leah Sharibu’s refusal to deny Christ and convert to Islam, which cost her freedom, exemplifies what Christians are going through in Nigeria’, writes Gideon Para-Mallam (IFES...
July 2020 Issue 9:4 Overview
The Chinese term for crisis consists of two words meaning ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’. The global pandemic has certainly shaken not just the world but also the church. Some have referred to it as a ‘divine wake-up call’. Will we seize...
July 2021 Issue 10:4 Overview
How do we do mission in our divided and wounded world today? Addressing this crucial issue in global mission, Kirsteen Kim, Associate Dean for the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary, reflects on lessons learned from the...
July 2022 Issue 11:4 Overview
Trafficking, poverty, pandemic, war—we are being confronted with such human suffering around the world daily. Even Christians have not been spared. We ask: What about the biblical promises of prosperity and wellbeing? What is our responsibility as...
July 2023 Issue 12:4 Overview
We live in a world of conflict. In many conflicts today, ethnic or religious rivalries as well as territorial or political interests are used to justify aggression and violence, causing much pain and suffering to innocent victims. The first two...
July 2024 Issue 13:4 Overview
Affirming Our Common Calling: Interdependence for polycentric mission There was a point in time when mission was understood as the divine right of certain people from certain places to convert some people living in some places to Christianity. The...
June 2013 Issue 2:3 Overview
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...
March 2013 Issue 2:2 Overview
New Threats to Religious Freedom in Europe and their Implications Religious freedom is a fundamental human right; a right that is facing significant challenges in many parts of the world including in the West. In this issue of the LGA, we analyse...
March 2014 Issue 3:2 Overview
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...
March 2015 Issue 4:2 Overview
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...
March 2016 Issue 5:2 Overview
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...
March 2017 Issue 6:2 Overview
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...
March 2018 Issue 7:2 Overview
India’s Water Crisis ‘Access to fresh water is becoming critical in parts of Asia and Africa’, write Atul Aghamkar (Director, National Centre for Urban Transformation) and Ken Gnanakan (Founder, ACTS Group of Institutions). Reasons for...