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JELC member Ms Kyoko Tawara [left] and Ms Kiyoe Narita from JLC, displaying the LWF Gender Justice Policy in Japanese, at the April 2015 WICAS meeting in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: LWF/WICAS

Japan: A Tool to Raise a Movement for Women’s Ordination

By Ms Kiyoe Narita

In the Japan Lutheran Church, 70 percent of those who attend worship are women. It therefore means that women are the majority of servers in the church. They are happy to serve and give their voice at various…

Marta Spangler, right, with workshop participants during a visit to the UN Geneva office. Photo: LWF/E. Neuenfeldt

Exuberant energy from faith-based collaboration

LWF junior advocacy officer Marta Spangler attended a global advocacy training for faith-based organizations on women’s human rights, taking place in Geneva. She looks at the potential for international synergy through faith-based collaboration…

Christine Mangale (right) says the July training workshop on women's human rights that she attended in Geneva, complements ongoing advocacy by the Lutheran Office for Wold Community in New York. Photo: LWF/P. Mumia

The path to gender equality requires greater knowledge

By Christine Mangale

There is no end to education and, therefore, lifelong learning is critical if people have to make progress either individually or as a group.

The Lutheran Office for World Community in New York helps…

Our churches must be role models for gender justice, says Christine Mangale of the Lutheran office at the UN headquarters

Empower women, secure sustainable development

Christine Mangale from the Lutheran office at the UN headquarters in New York analyses the role of faith-based organizations in ensuring women’s inclusion and participation in sustainable development.

The United…

Contemporary music draws young people to ELCN-PNG workshops. Girls from Ngagiob parish perform a tambourine dance, a creative method of explaining biblical stories. Photo: LWF/M. Renaux

Tackling a taboo subject in Papua New Guinea

Lutheran Youth leader Warendo Soer says it is important to raise awareness about teenage pregnancy in Papua New Guinea.

Sex education is not something ones talks about openly in Papua New Guinea. It is considered a…

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…

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: Larry Madrigal stands in front of the stained glass mural that inspired his mother at the 1994 CSW. Photo: L Madrigal

Half of humanity activating its rights

LWF delegate Larry José Madrigal blogs from the world’s largest gathering on women’s human rights

The United Nations is a metaphor for the world in all its diversity, complexity and contradiction.

Thousands of women and hundreds of…

Ranjita Borgoary gives a presentation at a meeting associated with the Commission on the Status of Women. Photo: LWF

Proud to tell people LWF has a gender justice policy

LWF Council Member Ranjita Borgoary writes about what it means to participate United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women

A woman from a village never dreams of participating in a UN meeting. But a dream has come true.

It is a…

Ms. Eva-Christina Nilsson. Photo: LWF

Taking responsibility for God’s creation

Youth lead the way in combating climate change

In the 1970s, there was a man named Ebbe Arvidsson, who used to come to this building […

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Masculinity and the ministry of encouragement

LWF webinar: ‘Being (hu)man in a world of violence’ engages feminism and positive masculinities

In the course of my parish and teaching ministry, I have encountered sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in many forms. I have accompanied…