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Five LWF vice-presidents: from left to right, Desri Maria Sumbayak, Propstin Astrid Klein, Archbishop Antje Jackelen, Rev. Jeannette Ada Epse Maina and Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton Photo: LWF/A. Hillert

Promoting gender justice in church and society

A meeting of Lutheran women leaders looks at ways of transforming patriarchal attitudes and structures

(LWI) - Working together to challenge patriarchal structures and attitudes was at the top of the agenda as participants in a…

Youth members of the LWF Council gather ahead of the 13 to 18 June meeting Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Young Lutherans raise concerns at Council 2019

Youth Council members call for action on climate change, gender justice and participation in church leadership

(LWI) - Young Lutheran ordained and lay leaders from different parts of the globe gathered in Geneva for a Pre-Council meeting…

Dr Denis Mukwege with women at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Torleif Svensson

LWF supports survivors of sexual violence in DRC

Delegation visits Panzi hospital and pledges support to survivor network in Kasai region

(LWI) - On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) attended an event organized…

LWF Youth secretary Ms Pranita Biswasi, addressing the side-event on a human rightsâ perspective in climate action processes at the UN Office in Geneva. Photo: LWF/F. Wilches

Call for human rights-based climate action

LWF Youth secretary says climate change disproportionately impacts women, youth, indigenous communities

(LWI) – Meaningful climate policies and action must address the human rights perspective of the disproportionate impact of climate…

The LWF was part of a delegation that recxently met with survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Mukwege Foundation

Call for state responsibility in fight against sexual violence in DRC

Survivors’ voices at the center of shadow report to CEDAW committee

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is among five civil society organizations calling on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government to urgently assume its…

Members of the Executive Committee of the ELCT Women's Department display their national banner. All Photos: ELCT Communication/Evans Ayo

Tanzania: Towards full women’s inclusion in the ordained ministry

ELCT women pastors and theologians celebrate milestones in a 30 year-journey

(LWI) - Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) recently marked three…

LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge participated in the opening worship of the National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and addressed the convention, offering greetings and insights from the LWF. Photo: ELCIC Communications.

The church belongs to the present and has a future

“It is by making a difference that a church is big”

(LWI) - Churches flourish where people journey with each other, worshipping together, talking and listening to each other as they “gather and walk in Christ’s name,” the General…

KELC South Coast Church District Gender Justice public participation forum in Mombasa, Kenya. Photo: L. Mwololo

Kenya moving towards gender equality in church and society

KELC promotes theological foundations for gender justice

(LWI) - Rev. Catherine Ngina Musau, head of the Gender Justice Program in the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (KELC…

Young people discussed migration, unemployment, climate and gender justice and the challenges of radical extremism at the International Youth Day event in the ecumenical Center, co-hosted by WCC, WCSF and LWF. Photo: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

LWF and partners observe International Youth Day

Youth “effectively contributing to the revival of churches and communities”

(LWI) - The inclusion of young people on all levels is necessary to envision a future of justice and peace. This was the overall agreement shared as The Lutheran…

Sarah Ewoi, with a South Sudanese refugee family at Nadapal center. Photo : LWF Kenya

Selfless service at the front line

Sarah Ewoi, Kenya, receives refugees from South Sudan

#WomenHumanitarians

(LWI) - 46-year-old Sarah Ewoi is a mother of 4, working for the Lutheran World Federation – World Service at the Nadapal Transit Centre in Kenya. The…