More than 40 participants, including 29 young people, took part in a four- day “Training the Trainers” (1- 4 July) course in Papua aimed at helping to prevent the spread of HIV in the Indonesian province …
As much as it is a fact that Jantine Auguste Haumersen was the first woman pastor ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it was another woman (later to be ordained as pastor as well) who prepared the way…
The LWF Gender Justice Policy gives new ideas and thoughts to the Lutheran Church in Korea. The process of developing the translation was good, although we learned there is room for improvements in such a…
In the Japan Lutheran Church, 70 percent of those who attend worship are women. It therefore means that women are the majority of servers in the church. They are happy to serve and give their voice at various…
Christine Mangale from the Lutheran office at the UN headquarters in New York analyses the role of faith-based organizations in ensuring women’s inclusion and participation in sustainable development.
The Lutheran World Federation’s Women in Church and Society attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, held annually at the UN headquarters in New York. This year’s…
![JELC member Ms Kyoko Tawara [left] and Ms Kiyoe Narita from JLC, displaying the LWF Gender Justice Policy in Japanese, at the April 2015 WICAS meeting in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: LWF/WICAS](/sites/default/files/styles/ino_plain_2x_xl/public/2022-06/gender-justice-policy-japanese.jpg.webp?itok=M0HsfA0H)
