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Christine Mangale, of the Lutheran Office for World Community, attended CSW61 and issued a call for churches to promote dignity. Photo: WCC/Albin Hillert

As people of faith, we must work for women’s empowerment

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The Lutheran World Federation’s Women in Church and Society attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, held annually at the UN headquarters in New York. This year’s…

A child at Casa Abierta in Carpio, San JosÃ©, plants one of the first trees to mark ILCO's observance of the 500th anniversrary of the Reformation. Photo: Geraldina Ãlvarez

500 trees, 500 faces for the Reformation anniversary

An opportunity to learn about the Lutheran Costa Rican Church

(LWI) - The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) is showing its commitment to the care for creation by planting 500 trees to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017…

Rev. Gilberto Mora Quesada said the church ordained Teresa Guadamuz âbased on merit and maturityâ after a long and sometimes difficult process, in which she always stood firm. Photo: ILCO/Rodolfo Mena Vargas

Costa Rican church ordains committed woman evangelist Teresa Guadamuz

A commitment to bring hope and transformation in community

(LWI) – The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) celebrated a historic day 3 April, when it ordained one of its longest-serving church workers…

Meeting of migrants in SarapiquÃ being assited with the necessary information on legal procedures for settling in the country and labor rights. Photo: ILCO

A pastoral ministry that empowers migrants

Costa Rican church assists youth and women seeking work in Nicaragua

(LWI) - The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) says a project it started 10 years ago to integrate migrants…

A group of women participants at MLCâs jubilee. Photo: MLC

Precious in God’s Eyes

16 days of activism to overcome gender based violence

(LWI) The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is encouraging church leaders to speak up publicly against gender-based violence. Joining the…

Award to church in Costa Rica for refugee response

"Fundamental actor in humanitarian response”

(LWI) - The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) received the "Living Integration Seal” award 2019, award given by the…

LWF President Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Unexpected joy during an unprecedented Christmas

LWF President Musa shared LWF’s 2020 Christmas Message

(LWI) – In a Christmas season marked by uncertainty and fear from the unfamiliar and unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Christians are invited to trust in the promise…