News & Updates

Renewing Our Minds (ROM) invites you to a conference on Faith and Politics: Bridging Divides and Reclaiming a Civil Discourse in European Politics, taking place in Life Center in Crikvenica, Croatia October 31-November 3, 2024.

The "Economics, Diplomacy, and Integrity" (EDI) forum, held in Tuk Vojni, Croatia, from August 15-23, 2024, brought together 40 students and young professionals from Romania, Serbia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Moldova, the U.S., and Belgium.

Twenty five years later, over 1,000 participants from dozens of countries have been part of ROM gatherings. And over 100 members of the ROM family, along with 50 children, joined together for a Regathering in Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina August 4-11, 2024.

The 2023 Ecology and Social Responsibility Conference, which gathered Christians from Serbia and neighboring countries to proclaim their faith-based responsibility to care for creation, was the first of its kind in Serbia.

ROM is pleased to announce we will be hosting a conference on the importance of environmental stewardship in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 6–8 October.

Over the last week of June and the first week of July, 44 participants from 15 countries came together in Crikvenica, Croatia to learn how to be agents of change in their communities and throughout the world.

The Summer Gathering for Renewing Our Minds (ROM) and the annual Forum for Economics, Diplomacy, and Integrity (EDI) will occur simultaneously for the first time this year.

The first ROM Leadership Forum took place in Tirana, Albania, March 24-26, 2023. The Forum was organized in partnership with the Forum for Democracy and Ethics (FDE), and brought together 30 young leaders and speakers from Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Romania, North Macedonia, US, and the UK.

The Forum for Leadership and Reconciliation is organizing a Renewing Our Minds (ROM) leadership forum together with Forum for Democracy and Ethics (FDE) in Tirana, Albania, March 24 - 26, 2023. The theme of the forum is "Leadership in Times of Crisis."

A ROM and EDI Regathering brought together 50 participants from 11 countries from the past 20+ years of both programs in Crikvenica, Croatia, October 12-16, 2022.

The goal of the Renewing Our Minds (ROM) summer gathering that took place in Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina August 6-20, 2022 was to equip ROM participants to return to their communities as bridge-builders and peacemakers, seeking to bring unity to communities divided along ethnic, religious, or socio-economic lines.

We aim to organize these regatherings every two to three years to provide a platform for members of the ROM and EDI community to reconnect with old friends and make new friends from across generations, programs, countries.

While there is currently less fighting in Kyiv, life is still very difficult –utilities and other infrastructure have not yet been fully restored, there are food and fuel shortages, many families are facing costly repairs or the need to totally rebuild their homes, and many have no job and therefore no source of income due to the businesses they worked for have been destroyed.

One of the projects we are supporting through the Forum Golden Rule Ukrainian Refugee Relief Project is Hope House.

One of the projects we are supporting through the Forum Golden Rule Ukrainian Refugee Relieft Project is Perspective Danes, run by ROMmates Liviu and Elena in Mures, Romania.

The first initiative Forum will be supporting as part of our Golden Rule initiative, supporting ROM and EDI community members serving those displaced by the war in Ukraine, is Polylogos.

A new refugee crisis has come to Eastern Europe with the war in Ukraine, and members of the ROM and EDI community are responding.

Economics, Diplomacy and Integrity (EDI) is an initiative designed to support the development of young professionals and students in the areas of politics, economics, and business which are based on the life and teachings of Jesus.

This year’s Renewing Our Minds (ROM) gathering brought together about 45 young leaders from the Balkans and beyond July 1-15, 2021 in Crikvenica, Croatia.

Please join us for an EDI/ROM Zoom conversation with Dr. Elona Prroj on Thursday, December 17, 2020. Elona will share her story of losing her husband to a blood feud and choosing to forgive and end the cycle of violence.