Poland hosts 1.5 million officially registered refugees from Ukraine. Twenty live in Betania, a holiday home of The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland in the Cieszyn Diocese near Bielsko-Biala.
A board of twelve activists younger than 27 was established to advise the leadership of German development agency Brot für die Welt on matters regarding education and development.
The ‘double-edged sword’ of digital technology: find out how Lutheran leaders in the struggle for gender equality are harnessing mobile and other technologies to empower, connect and protect women and girls from violence or discrimination.
Mobile phones have brought the world to our fingertips, but many women and girls have been left behind by digital revolution, while others have been exposed to new forms of violence. An 9 March event at the UN in New York showcased how faith-…
In this Voices from the Communion interview, Pröpstin Astrid Kleist speaks about her leadership at the local and international levels and the characteristics of the Central Western European region. She looks back at her term of office with the…
From 2025 the synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany will be composed of equal numbers of men and women and ten percent of people aged 27 and younger.
The stewardship program is a long-standing part of LWF Assemblies. Stewards offer their skills to help support the Assembly and to expand their knowledge of the LWF. This year the participation of these young leaders from across the Communion and…
LWF is sending a delegation of 32 to attend this year’s meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York. Joining in-person and online, they will provide a vital voice of faith for reflections on how to close the digital gender gap.…
LWF member churches in the region and the LWF humanitarian arm World Service were among the first to respond to the war in Ukraine. A new LWF publication celebrates the communion-wide solidarity in pictures.
Lutheran and Orthodox theologians meet for the first time since the pandemic and look ahead to the publication of a joint statement on the theme of the Holy Spirit in the Church and the World.
