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The head of Brazil's Lutheran church says talks could counter unpredictable and dangerous divisions in Brazil. Photo: LWF Brazil

Brazilian Lutheran leader calls for dialogue to safeguard democracy

Catholic-Lutheran document offers guidelines to local situation

(LWI) – Brazilian Lutheran church leader Rev. Dr Nestor Paulo Friedrich has emphasized the need for dialogue in the country, which is going through a critical social,…

Rev. Gilberto Mora Quesada said the church ordained Teresa Guadamuz âbased on merit and maturityâ after a long and sometimes difficult process, in which she always stood firm. Photo: ILCO/Rodolfo Mena Vargas

Costa Rican church ordains committed woman evangelist Teresa Guadamuz

A commitment to bring hope and transformation in community

(LWI) – The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) celebrated a historic day 3 April, when it ordained one of its longest-serving church workers…

At the 1-3 April synod of the Polish Lutheran church, many theologians and congregation members took part in discussion on womenâs ordination to pastoral ministry and supported the move. Photo: Beata Michalek

Ordination of women in Poland: “The church is on the way”

Advocating for a church with women in ordained ministry

(LWI) - At the recent synod of the Polish Lutheran church, a majority voted in favor of the ordination of women to the pastoral ministry. However, it failed to reach the two-thirds…

Children enjoy recreation activities in an area designated for women at the Davudija camp for internally displaced people, Dohuk, north Iraq. Photo: LWF/Seivan Salim

Deep gratitude to Polish church for refugee support

Junge: LWF churches share the vocation of serving people in need

(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has received with deep gratitude a "significant" contribution of EUR 15,000 from the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg…

Bishop (Emeritus) Manas Buthelezi. Photo: LWF Archives

LWF mourns South Africa Bishop Buthelezi

A prophetic voice with a passion for justice, peace and reconciliation

(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has hailed South African Bishop (Emeritus) Manas Buthelezi, a former LWF vice-president who died on 20 April, aged 81, as a…

Elected deacons and officers at Augustdorf in the British zone, west Germany. Photo: LWF Archives

Serving refugees then and now

Encouragement from LWF’s history with Latvian refugees

(LWI) - Support and advocacy for refugees has been a central vocation of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) since its founding nearly 70 years ago.

Millions of Europeans were…

Evangelists take part in a training session in Yangon through a program run by the Myanmar Lutheran Church to provide its village congregations with lay leaders. This support is critical âfor a young church with many small congregations in the villages,â says Ilona Dorji, LWF secretary for Project Coordination and Monitoring. Photo: LWF/I. Dorji

The joys and challenges of thousands across the LWF

LWF committee to discuss funding for member church projects

(LWI) – The joys and challenges faced by Lutheran churches across the global communion will come to the fore at a Lutheran World Federation (LWF) meeting to discuss funding for…

Teacher Almaz Tesfaldet shows five-year-old Luz how to play a traditional drum at the Lutheran church-run pre-school in Asmara. The Eritrean Lutheran church kindergartens in the capital and three remote villages provide learning and recreation space for children from many faith backgrounds. Photo: LWF/Rainer Lang

Many faiths under one roof in Eritrean church kindergartens

Lutheran communion support is important and much needed

(LWI) – They are sitting in a circle on the floor, eagerly listening to teacher Almaz Tesfaldet reading out from a booklet of Bible stories for children. Aged between four and six…

A church becomes a makeshift shelter for survivors of the earthquake. Photo: JELC

Severe quake damage to Kumamoto’s Lutheran churches and schools

Lutheran church assists affected residents, assesses damage

(LWI) – The Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (JELC) has launched a disaster relief program in Kumamoto city to rebuild schools and some of its oldest churches, damaged in the…

Refugee work is part of ELCICâs engagement as a church âIn mission for others.â National Bishop Susan C. Johnson, seen here, visiting refugees in Adjumani, north Uganda. Photo: LWF Uganda

A "wonderful" sign of the calling into Church unity

Canadian Bishop Johnson reflects on the ecumenical commemoration in Lund

Canadian National Bishop Susan C. Johnson says the October 2016 joint Lutheran - Catholic commemoration of the Reformation “is a wonderful sign of the work of the…