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Czech Republic: The Church is “a facilitator of change”

Voices from the Communion: Ms. Janka Adameová director of education diaconal program

(LWI) - Living her formative years in Slovakia, Janka Adameová learned early on that a good education was valuable, but being with people who are…

There are many risks on the irregular migration journey from El Salvador to the U.S border. Photo: F. Arucha/ Salvadoran Lutheran Church

El Salvador: “Witnessing migration is one of the hardest things”

Voices from the Communion: Mr. Fernando Arucha

(LWI) - A life-long Lutheran and a member of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church, Mr. Fernando Arucha is a marketing specialist…

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada National Bishop Susan Johnson pictured in 2017 at the LWF Twelfth Assembly in Windhoek, Namibia. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Canada: In mission for others, when church and home feel the same

Voices from the Communion: National Bishop Susan Johnson

(LWI) - Having grown up in a nurturing Saskatchewan environment with a family of pastors, one of whom was her father, National Bishop Susan Johnson says she always felt as…

General Secretary of the Chinese Rhenish Church Hong Kong Synod, Mr. Leon Chau in his office in Hong Kong. Photo: CRCHKS

Hong Kong: Cooperation, friendship, benefits of LWF communion relations

Voices from the Communion: Chinese Rhenish Church General Secretary, Mr. Leon Chau

(LWI) - For 20 years, Mr. Leon Chau, General Secretary of The Chinese Rhenish Church…

Rev. Ruth Wolff-Bonsirven of the Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace-Lorraine. Photo: UEPAL

France: Finding the voice of gender justice in Scripture

Voices from the Communion: Rev. Ruth Wolff-Bonsirven of the Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace-Lorraine

Ruth Wolff-Bonsirven was growing up in France’s north-eastern region of Alsace-Lorraine on the border with Germany, all children…

Bishop Jaroslav Javornik from the Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia. Photo: SEAVC

Serbia: Passing on the Slovak language and the message of faith

Voices from the Communion: Jaroslav Javornik, Bishop of the Slovak Evangelical Church A. B. in Serbia

(LWI) - Dr. Jaroslav Javornik, Bishop of the Slovak…

Ms Kathryn Mary Lohre, Executive for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Relations & Theological Discernment for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Photo: ELCA

USA: "We are part of this, together”

Voices from the Communion: Kathryn Lohre, ELCA Executive for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Relations

(LWI) - Ms Kathryn Mary Lohre, Executive for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Relations…

Rev. Rebecca Maduley Kurubai, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Photo: Courtesy

Tanzania: The journey of a woman pastor with her indigenous community

Voices from the Communion: Rev. Rebecca Maduley Kurubai, the first Maasai woman pastor

(LWI) - “My testimony has been drawing many people to Christ,” says Rev. Rebecca Maduley Kurubai, the first ordained Maasai woman pastor in the…

The Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras President Pastor Rev. Julio Cabellero. Photo: LWF

Honduras: "We go without fear, we bless them”

Voices from the Communion: Pastor President Julio Caballero of the Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras

(LWI) - On 10 April this year, the Christian Lutheran Church of…

Bishop Johan Tyrberg, Diocese of Lund, Sweden, during a visit to the LWF Communion Office in Geneva, Switzerland, September 2021. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

Lund: Celebrating “five years of a new friendship”

Voices from the Communion: Bishop Johan Tyrberg, Diocese of Lund, Sweden

(LWI) – In this Voices from the Communion interview, Bishop Johan Tyrberg, Diocese of Lund, Church of Sweden, looks back at how a historic ecumenical event that…

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