LWF country programs worldwide are celebrating International Women’s Day. With festivities, media panels and other events they show LWF’s work for women’s empowerment but also raise awareness about discrimination and injustice…
Representatives from LWF member churches and country programs around the globe are bringing grassroots experience and expertise to the 68th session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women which will be discussing poverty alleviation.
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.
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 interview, the Pastor President of the Lutheran Church of Peru, Rev. Ofelia Dávila Llimpe, speaks about her ongoing engagement for social and gender justice, the inspiration she drew from Liberation Theology, and…
LWF’s General Secretary Burghardt joins gender justice advocates to reflect on the theological foundations of the communion’s Gender Justice Policy and explore its impact on member churches around the world
A recently published toolbox of resources for implementing gender justice in churches and society forms the centerpiece of a webinar marking the 16 Days campaign.
UN representative underlines critical role of faith communities in the global fight against sexual and gender-based violence, and Lutheran church leaders share their churches’ response.
