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Image Rev Dr Mercedes García Bachmann was a presenter at the recent Gender Justice Consultation in Geneva. Photo: LWF/A. Hillert Argentina: from Assembly youth preacher to feminist theologian Rev. Dr Mercedes García Bachmann was among the first women to be ordained in the United Evangelical Lutheran Church (LWI) - Mercedes García Bachmann was in her last year of high school when she first felt a call to become a pastor in the…
