Launched in 2014, the RBA L2G initiative now involves people from 10 different countries working on human rights and advocacy in a variety of contexts, and this workshop is the opportunity for them to discuss, share and learn from their experiences. The workshop will focus on gathering feedback from colleagues and partners, as well as planning the way forward for this initiative.

Participants will be invited to present the main highlights and challenges they have faced so far, and group discussions will be set up to allow for more in-depth discussions on specific themes and regions.  The results of the discussions will help LWF clarify the potential for RBA L2G and start planning and designing future projects.

Leaders from the 10 LWF member churches in LUCCWA will discuss churches’ active engagement in the global SDGs and explore involvement in Africa’s Agenda 2063. Similar to the SDGs, the AU’s strategic framework for socio-economic transformation seeks to enhance implementation of past and current African initiatives for the continent’s growth and sustainable development.

Hosted by the Lutheran Church in Liberia (LCL), the summit coincides with an ecumenical worship service to commemorate 500 years of the Reformation jointly organized by the LCL and the Roman Catholic Church. LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge, a participant in the summit, will preach at the service, which will be attended by representatives of other churches in Liberia, and by the country’s Vice-President Mr Joseph Boakai.

The theme of the five-year dialogue which started last year and includes representatives of various classical Pentecostal churches and LWF member churches, is Christian identity in light of Luke 4:18-19. This year’s meeting explores LWF’s and Pentecostal concepts of mission. The group will also hear a presentation from Prof. Andreas Fincke from the Evangelical Church in Central Germany on “Religious Landscape in the Secular Environment in Eastern Germany” and trace back the roots of Reformation in the Luther City Wittenberg.

Members:

Lutherans: Rev. Dr Samuel Wilfred John (Malaysia); Rev. Dr Cheryl Peterson (USA); Rev. Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson (USA); Rev. Dr Walter Altmann (Brazil, Lutheran co-chair); Rev. Tamás Gáncs (Hungary); Rev. Johannes Zeiler (Sweden); staff: Rev. Dr Kaisamari Hintikka; Rev. Anne Burghardt.

Pentecostals: Dr Jean-Daniel Plüss (Switzerland, Pentecostal co-chair); Rev. Cecil M. Robeck (USA); Rev. Gani Wiyono (Indonesia); Dr Olga Zaprometova (Russia); Rev. Dr Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen (USA); Rev. Tham Wan Yee (Malaysia).

Dr Nico Horn (Pentecostal) from Namibia and Rev. Dr Amos Buntausa (Lutheran) from Nigeria weren’t unfortunately able to participate.

The LWF is developing an ecumenical strategy. It will provide a framework for the LWF’s future engagement in bilateral dialogues and the wider ecumenical movement.

The ecumenical strategy document will be developed in close cooperation between the Department for Theology and Public Witness and an advisory group representing the seven LWF regions, plus a staff member from the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg. It is expected to be presented to the LWF Council in June 2018.

As it is very crucial that future LWF ecumenical dialogues are linked to the ecumenical work and challenges of the member churches, they received a questionnaire on the ecumenical relations of the member churches. The results of this survey will serve the advisory group when developing the LWF ecumenical strategy.

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Access to quality education and health services plays a pivotal role in reducing extreme poverty and boosting economic growth. However, women and children are often left behind.

The workshop uses the perspectives of gender justice and child rights to focus on health and education. The participants will be equipped with contemporary skills to enable churches in Africa to engage more effectively in education and health provision. This especially means ensuring equal access to these basic services and guaranteeing the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized people. Diaconal actors, women, youth and church leaders will be encouraged to work with government and civil society in a meaningful way when it comes to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals focusing on health, education and gender equality.

The event will be in English with whispering interpretation in French.

Hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania.

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Worship Services from six continents

On Reformation day the Lutheran World Federation will invite you on a trip around the world and across the seven LWF regions to witness how the Reformation has become a global citizen.

A live stream of worship services from 11:00-23:00 CET, will show the rich diversity and unity of the Lutheran churches as they commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

This journey will also feature three ecumenical services, demonstrating the spirit of ecumenical accountability with which the LWF has commemorated the 500th Reformation anniversary.

The program also include information about the seven regions,  the 145 member churches and the ongoing reformation.

We also invite viewers to be part of this global journey by sharing their impressions on social media.

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The LWF delegation advocates ecumenically for climate justice at the UN Climate Change Conference COP23. We raise new climate leaders and support our churches engagement for climate justice.

For the LWF, climate change is a question of justice, peace, the care for creation, and human rights. It is also a question of justice between people, nations, and generations. As a young delegation, and people of faith, the LWF delegation to COP23 focuses on intergenerational responsibility to care for creation and stand in solidarity with our neighbours. 

The delegation of 12 young Lutherans from all over the world will advocate, campaign and bring a faith-voice to the negotiations together with its ecumenical partners (ACT Alliance, WCC, Worldwide YMCA).

Because the LWF wants to be part of the solution, in June 2015, its Council voted not invest in fossil fuels and the LWF Twelfth Assembly in May 2017 “called upon the global communion to strengthen its efforts even more for climate justice".

Find more information on this  subject at:

LWF on Climate Justice

LWF COP Delegations

LWF Assembly Resolution on Climate Change

ACT Alliance: Climate Change Advocacy Framework Position (2016 – 2018)

The event will be in English and German.

Objectif général

Les participants sont capables d'identifier des riques et d'adopter des stratégies d'atténuations adaptées au sein d'un plan de sécurité

• faire une veille sécuritaire pertinente
• maitriser les outils, processus de la gestion de sécurité
• réagir et désamorcer un comportement agressif
• réaliser des actes de premiers secours basique

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The plenary session is expected to finalize the study process on ordained ministry/priesthood, a topic which both dialogue partners have been discussing since 2012.

The commission will also participate in the consecration of the newly elected Lutheran Bishop of Helsinki, Rev. Dr Teemu Laajasalo. In the framework of this dialogue commission meeting, a Lutheran-Orthodox Seminar on the occasion of marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, “Legacy of the Reformation – Lutheran and Orthodox approaches”, will take place on 13 November.

Besides LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge and several representatives of local Lutheran and Orthodox churches, Fr Heikki Huttunen, the General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches, will give a presentation.

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Commemoration Day Agenda

The kick-off workshop for the three-year process will involve about 5 people each from the three LWF regions—Central Eastern Europe, Central Western Europe and Nordic—and staff from the LWF and its partner organization, the International Academy for Diaconia and Social Action in Central and Eastern Europe (interdiac). The process is jointly organized by the LWF Europe Desk and interdiac.

The program has been designed to enable cooperation of diaconal actors across Europe. Its working method will follow the practice of earlier workshops that focused on learning from what is shared by each participant and from the context in which they meet. The idea is to produce a work plan and establish a way of communicating among the group members. The main focus of the next stage of the LWF European Diaconal Process will be on growing diversities in the context of migration and the role of churches.

Outcomes of the previous process are documented in an evaluation report, reflections and practical proposals for mutual cooperation in the latest publication, Seeking Conviviality.

Reflections and practice on the welfare and economy are presented in Towards a Convivial Economy.

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