Come, Let Us Celebrate Together – Youth reflections on climate, gender justice, and migration

I joined The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Latin America and the…

Growing together in faith and solidarity

This year’s theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, “You shall love the Lord your God ... and your neighbor…

Reflections from one of the participants in a summer course at the Strasbourg Institute for Ecumenical Research

As 30 participants from 20 different…

World Humanitarian Day: Field staff reflect on work in Ukraine

I have headed humanitarian missions in hostile work environments such as Somalia, Rwanda, and…

Responding to the Sudan crisis in Chad

I work with LWF in the department of Assoungha specifically in the refugee and returnee sites of Adré, Ourang, Ambilia, Dize-…

By Klaus Rieth

Participants of the men and women’s pre-assembly report that the speech of LWF staff member Elaine Neuenfeldt was very impressive.

Neuenfeldt, LWF secretary for Women in Church and Society (WICAS) reported…

At an information session about the present situation in Syria, Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, LWF World Service Global Program Coordinator, informed about the present situation in the war and crisis-shaken Syria.

The World Service staff member…

By Klaus Rieth

I liked the presentation of the local churches at the beginning of the assembly.

The Korean churches are so historically sensitive! So all participants got a lecture in history and could learn a lot.

Also…

By Klaus Rieth

Walter Altmann, moderator of the WCC Central Committee, raised the issue of the "prophetic voice of WCC" and asked self critically, whether the WCC has been in the past too reserved to questions like the perverse…

By Klaus Rieth

"Men and women belong together," said Elaine Neuenfeldt in her presentation at the Lutherans’ confessional meeting at the 10th WCC Assembly in Busan. "There is no women’s issue. All issues are women’s issues,"…