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Bishop Younan (fourth from right) stands among Lutheran leaders welcoming a group of young Lutherans who climbed Mt Kilimanjaro. He told worshippers at the close of the Marangu conference that the challenge for Lutherans was to empower African Christians to more fully contextualize the gospel. Photo: LWF/Tsion Alemayehu

Africa’s spiritual gifts enrich the global church

Over 2000 attend Lutheran anniversary celebrations in Tanzania

MOSHI, Tanzania /GENEVA, 26 May 2015 (LWI) – The 60th anniversary celebrations of the Lutheran communion in Africa concluded with an affirmation of the continent’s strong…

LWF Council member Ms Titi Malik and LWF President Bishop Munib A. Younan plant a commemorative tree for the 60th anniversary of the first Lutheran conference in Marangu. Photo: LWF/Tsion Alemayehu

Assurance of solidarity in the LWF communion of churches

LWF’s President Younan encourages African member churches in their Lutheran journey

MOSHI, Tanzania/GENEVA, 24 May 2015 (LWI) – African church representatives meeting in Moshi, Tanzania, expressed appreciation for the critical…

Global Fund for Women president, Dr Musimbi Kanyoro, addresses Lutheran church delegates at the May 2015 African region consultation and 60th anniversary gathering in Moshi, Tanzania. Photo: LWF/Tsion Alemayehu

Persist in putting faith into action, Kanyoro urges Lutheran churches

Violence against women is alarming, congregations can do more

MOSHI, Tanzania/GENEVA, 2 June 2015 (LWI) - “Are we as churches sometimes unable to speak about violence against women and girls because we experience it and practice…

Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria Bishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa makes his presentation at the May 2015 consultation and 60th anniversary of African Lutheran church leaders in Moshi, Tanzania. Photo: LWF/Tsion Alemayehu

Renewal of the Lutheran church in Africa must address today’s realities

Nigerian Bishop Musa stresses need for critical reform in theological education, leadership, liturgy and worship

(LWI) – Ongoing renewal of the church must be a priority for African Lutheran church witness, in a context in which progress…

Meeting in Wittenberg, German and Tanzanian Lutheran church leaders stated their commitment to ongoing mutual conversations and exchange. Photo: VELKD/Gundolf Holfert

German and Tanzanian Lutheran leaders affirm mutual solidarity

Wittenberg meeting on “Reformation and One World”

(LWI) – Representatives of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches in Tanzania and Germany met in Wittenberg, Germany, where they reflected on the Reformation and its global…

Current and past bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, with the first eight female clergy in the Northern Diocese, which recently marked 25 years of womenâs ordination. Photo: ELCT/Richard A. Mmbaga

More than 250 female pastors and growing

Celebrating 25 years of Lutheran women’s ordination in Tanzania’s Northern Diocese

(LWI) - More than 10 percent of ordained pastors in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) are women, and nearly all the church’s 24 dioceses…

LWF Vice-President Bishop Dr Alex G. Malasusa believes the Joint Commemoration in Sweden will strengthen joint diaconal work by Catholics and Lutherans in Tanzania and the rest of Africa. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

A moment to reduce suspicion and strengthen common work

Africa Vice-President Bishop Alex Malasusa says Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration is a moment to experience God’s grace

(LWI) – Tanzanian Bishop Dr Alex G. Malasusa will be at the Joint Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration of the…

In Voices from the Communion, LoeRose Mbise of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania says education and awareness-raising are critical if violence against women and girls is to be tackled. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Supporting women and girls in the struggle to end violence

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania offers new gender justice program

(LWI) - A new three-year gender justice program is the latest effort by the Evangelical Lutheran…

Ms Desri Maria Sumbayak, LWF Vice-President for Asia and Council member Ms LoeRose Mbise, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Photo. LWF/Albin Hillert

The LWF Strategy in Bahasa Indonesia and Swahili

A bridge between global goals and local contexts

(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Strategy 2019-2024 is now available in Bahasa Indonesia and Swahili languages, thanks to…

ELCT Presiding Bishop Dr Fredrick Onael Shoo. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

Tanzania: Presiding Bishop calls for leadership values that foster unity

ELCT retreat on a sustainable church

(LWI) - Church unity, sustainability, and a vibrant church were key topics at a recent retreat of bishops, management team, youth and women leaders of the…

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