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Beata Anna Kolarczyk, Polish Lutheran delegate to the COP 24 UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland. Photo: LWF/Sean Hawkey

Proclaiming the Gospel of Christ by caring for our common home

Climate is changing. The atmosphere of the public debate on environmental protection is also changing. COP 24 clearly showed that conversations about joint actions to protect…

Poland - workshop — Anna Kucman from the Municipal Center for Family Support gives a presentation on violence against women and how to get help during a workshop organized by the LWF community center in Gdansk, Poland, for the 16 Days of Activism. Photo: LWF/A. Brzozowski

Poland: Supporting women refugees

Women fleeing the war in Ukraine are at risk of gender-based violence: Leaving a war zone, passing checkpoints, and settling in an unknown country with limited financial resources and dependent family members make them vulnerable to exploitation…

Young reformers in Poland have set up a Living Reformation project that exceeded expectation. Photo: ECACP

“I believe, therefore…” - hundreds of Polish youth support Reformation project

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…

LWF Women Pre-Assembly, Windhoek, Namibia, 3-9 May 2017. Photo: LWF/Brenda Platero

“Claim what is already ours”

The long way towards women’s ordination in Poland

“I cried when I heard the Synod’s decision of April 2016,” recalls Agnieszka Godfrejow-Tarnogorska (44) of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland (ECACP). Her church…

Ms Pranita Biswasi, LWF youth secretary. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

Care for creation and future generations key issues for LWF delegation at COP 24

LWF Youth Secretary Pranita Biswasi reflects on vital role of youth in climate advocacy

(LWI) - Young people are key agents of change, so it is very significant that The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is again sending a youth delegation…

Part of the LWF delegation to COP24 in Katowice, Poland. Back row L-R: Sindri Geir Oskarsson, Helena Merle Funk, Wylie Cook, Romario Dohmann. Front row L-R Pranita Biswasi, Gloria Marthalena Samosir, Khulekani Magwaza. Photo: LWF/Sean Hawkey

Climate change destroys livelihoods and ecosystems, LWF delegates remind world leaders

Seven young people bring the Lutheran communion experience to COP 24

(LWI) -The planet’s future lies in the balance as world leaders, civil society and climate activists meet in Katowice, a coal mining town in Poland, to figure out how to…

LWF COP 24 delegate, Mr Khulekani Magwazah, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, speaks at one of the conference events in Katowice, Poland. Photo: LWF/Sean Hawkey

A strong basis to implement climate agreement but the poor have been left behind

LWF Youth Secretary says COP 24 outcome lacks commitment to the most marginalized

(LWI) - Negotiations at the United Nations (UN) climate conference in Katowice, Poland, have resulted in guidelines that “provide a strong basis to…

Bishop Pawel Hause, Diocese of Masuria, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

Polish Lutheran bishop shares his motto: “Do not let your hearts be troubled”

Voices from the Communion – Bishop Paweł Hause, Diocese of Masuria, Poland

(LWI) - The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland is a founding…

Prof. Dr Ä½ubomÃr Batka was one of the two lecturers at the 19th International theological seminar held at the LWF Center Wittenberg. Photo: LWF/A. WeyermÃ¼ller

Critically reflecting about Luther for the 21st century

Interview with Prof. Dr Ľubomír Batka

(LWI) – Prof. Dr Ľubomír Batka from Slovakia and Dr Hoyce Jacob Lyimo-Mbowe from Tanzania teamed up to lead the 19th International Seminar for theologians at the…