New study by German Lutheran and Catholic joint working group finds consensus on ethical matters

(LWI) – The third Bilateral Working Group (BILAG III) of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) and the Catholic German…

More than 400 young people join Living Reformation project

(LWI) Young Reformer and theology student Arkadiusz Raszka (26) from The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland is leading a Living Reformation project that has…

Online voting of International Preaching Contest started

(LWI) A young pastor will hold the sermon at the closing worship in the Twelfth assembly of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Namibia  on 16 May. Young ordained Lutherans from…

The Namibian churches and the LWF played a vital role during Namibia’s struggle for independence. Under South African rule, the policy was to divide people along racial and tribal lines. The churches were virtually the only organizations that…

LWF repairs water supply systems in Nepal

(LWI) Less than a year ago, 48-year-old Gapalmo Thokra and her husband Thsering Fincho Thokra (50), residents of Thangdur village in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, had to spend up to four hours every…

Three days to three weeks – that’s the length of time refugees from South Sudan describe taking to get to north Uganda. From the border onwards, they are being met by aid organizations such as The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) which register…

LWF urges Human Rights Council to work with religious leaders

(LWI) - For members of one Lutheran diocese in Tanzania, there is no place for the persecution of people with albinism - an affliction that blights not only their community and…

LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge about the famine alert in East Africa and Nigeria, the arms race and migration

(LWI) On March 16, the United Nations issued an alert, drawing attention to the famine in South Sudan, Somalia,…

Presenting a song of the Assembly

(LWI) Three member churches of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) are getting ready to host the Twelfth Assembly of the LWF. One of their contributions is an Assembly song, written and composed by the…