“It’s a God-given opportunity and at the same time a challenge, because in our context not many women are in leadership positions,” says Dr Ebisse Gudeta, the first female academic dean of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane…

After nearly 60 years in Geneva’s Ecumenical Center, the LWF has a new address. The new Communion Office is located on the Octagon campus, close to Geneva airport.

As the fairly young and indigenous Lutheran church in the Republic of Congo expands its work, the pastoral training center it set up five years ago is welcoming students from countries in the region.

In Ethiopia’s Lutheran church, the number of women studying theology and leadership is growing. A new gender justice training program at synod level aims to create more opportunities for women.

A new online platform offers a variety of training materials and resources in theology, diakonia, and leadership and other thematic areas of LWF’s work.

What tasks and actions arise for the LWF member churches from the message and other results of the Thirteenth Assembly? Two German churches explored this together at a joint event.

In this Voices from the Communion, Rev. Michael Jonas shares his journey from ordination in Germany’s Black Forest region to leading the Lutheran community in the heart of Rome

The first Protestant hymnbooks were printed in Germany 500 years ago, and thousands of editions were to follow. Over time, a treasure of immense impact on faith and culture was created.

Over the coming year, 127 new candidates from LWF member churches will receive scholarships to study theology or diakonia and development

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has launched a new theological education program for Indigenous leaders. This is the first such program in that church and aims to widen theological formation beyond Western approaches…