The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)-led deliberations on the self-understanding and identity of Lutheranism in Asia continues, with participants in the last meeting affirming that the unity of Lutheran churches…
After the snowstorm on the 13th of January, LWF Jordan staff member Julia Tarpy went to Mafraq to visit families which had been given winterization items, check on their situation and to see how they were coping with the weather. This is an…
Global and local statistics confirm that around 80 percent of Syrian refugees in Jordan live in northern cities, while the remaining 20 percent live in four camps: Za’atari, Marjeeb al-Fahood, Cyber City, and Al-…
Dr Jerzy Sojka is among the seven theologians in the LWF study group on Lutheran engagement in the public space. He reflects on the Polish context and expectations about the process.
Why is it important for the LWF to engage in this…
The seven-member LWF study group on Lutheran engagement in the public space includes theology post-graduate student Ms Eneida Jacobsen. She shares insights and expectations from the Brazilian context.
Bishop emeritus Dr Busi Suneel Bhanu is on the seven-member LWF study group on Lutheran engagement in the public space. He reflects on the Indian context and expectations about the process.
In 1994 the Lutheran World Federation published the first of three volumes on worship and culture, direct results of a project that covered seven years (1992–1999), and involved theologians, Lutheran…
When, in early April 1965, I crossed the threshold of the newly built Ecumenical Center for the first time to take up my job with the Lutheran World Federation’s comptroller, Roman Maximilian Ritter, the LWF was…
Singing the Songs of the Lord in Foreign Lands: Psalms in Contemporary Lutheran Interpretation (LWF Documentation 59), edited by Kenneth Mtata, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, and Miriam Rose (Leipzig: Evangelische…
The “spirit of Geneva” was strong, according to the representative from Venezuela, as she made her closing comments to the parties and observers gathered at the Palais des Nations at the end of the 8-13…
