Come, Let Us Celebrate Together – Youth reflections on climate, gender justice, and migration

I joined The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Latin America and the…

A young participant in the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women shares top takeaways from her time in New York

I was born and raised in Paramaribo, the…

A young Polish delegate at the Commission on the Status of Women shares her story of overcoming imposter syndrome 

This year I have had an opportunity that I never thought I would have. For the last five or six years…

A reflection on the annual 8 March observance from a young LWF delegate at the Commission on the Status of Women

I’ve intentionally celebrated International Women’s Day every year since March 2016. It was my junior year of high school and…

By Rev. Dr Elaine Neuenfeldt…

By Fernando Sihotang

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 …

By Barbara Rossing and Magdalena Ya-Shalongo

Of our four gospels, Matthew may be the one most favorable to women’s leadership in the early church. Matthew is the gospel where “women and children” are explicitly noted as present at…

By Shenila Khoja-Moolji

In 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl then twelve years old, was shot in the head by a member of the Tehrik-e-Taliban, a tribal-political formation in Pakistan. While she recovered shortly thereafter,…

By Marta Spangler

The Rev. Dr Robin Steinke was inaugurated on 12 October as President of Luther Seminary, at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church congregation in Apple Valley,…

By María Cristina Rendón, Program Assistant in Women in Church and Society

Room XVII at the United Nations in Geneva has witnessed hundreds of discussions on human rights, power-related issues, and the hopes and failures connected…