LWF Eleventh Assembly
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- LWF Provides Disaster Relief in Pakistan
- World YWCA General Secretary Praises Lutherans for Resolutions on Justice
- Armenian Catholicos Aram I Brings Greetings to LWF Assembly
- New LWF Council Holds its First Meeting
- “We Will Be Instruments of God’s Answer to the Prayer of Others”
- “True humanity” is found in giving and receiving
News from the Communion- In Fellowship and Care For One Another, We Recognize the Face of God July 22, 2010
- A World in Pain But Lutherans Gather in Confident Hope July 22, 2010
- A Soul-Searching Assembly July 21, 2010
- Hunger is Not Gods fault, Its Our Fault July 20, 2010
- Lutherans Meet in Germany for LWF Eleventh Assembly July 15, 2010
- Opening & Dedication of Sabah Theological Seminary Multi-purpose Education Centre July 14, 2010
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Assembly Resolutions
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“I learnt to hold on to values — justice, human dignity, non-violence, tolerance”
Growing up in Chile under the rule of a military dictatorship and suffering the resulting losses of freedom “profoundly shaped” the values of the General Secretary-elect of the Lutheran World... -
LWF Assembly Elects 48 New Council Members
Forty-eight nominees representing the seven regions of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) were elected today to the Council at the Eleventh LWF Assembly in Stuttgart, Germany.
LWF Provides Disaster Relief in Pakistan
World Service Workers to Support ACT Alliance Response
GENEVA, 18 August 2010 (LWI) – Two Lutheran World Federation (LWF) disaster relief specialists have been deployed to Pakistan to assist the ACT Alliance in providing emergency assistance to the victims of the flooding that has devastated the country in recent weeks.
Bed Bahadur Thapa and Netra Prasad Subedi, currently working with the LWF Department for World Service (DWS) program in Nepal, will arrive in Pakistan soon, said Dr Colette Bouka-Coula, DWS acting director. More…
World YWCA General Secretary Praises Lutherans for Resolutions on Justice
Calls on the LWF to Expose the Sin of Sexism
STUTTGART, Germany/GENEVA, 2 August 2010 – The general secretary of the World YWCA, Ms. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzwanda, congratulated the Eleventh Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) for resolutions on gender justice, human trafficking and the rights of Dalits.
In her greetings to the Assembly, Gumbonzwanda urged delegates to keep in mind that “as women and men, created in God’s image, both together are called to be God’s instruments of peace and justice for all creation.” More…
Armenian Catholicos Aram I Brings Greetings to LWF Assembly
Message Says “God’s Gift of Bread Not for Our Selfish Needs”
STUTTGART, Germany/GENEVA, 2 August 2010 – The Armenian Apostolic Church sent greetings to the Eleventh Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), underlining that God’s gift of bread “should not be for our selfish needs, but for the sake of reaching others, sharing with our neighbors.” More…
New LWF Council Holds its First Meeting
Treasurer and Vice-Presidents Elected
STUTTGART, Germany/GENEVA, 30 July 2010 (LWI) – A new treasurer and seven vice presidents for The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) were elected by the LWF Council meeting in Stuttgart (Germany) 28-29 July, two days after the LWF Eleventh Assembly closed its business. More…
“We Will Be Instruments of God’s Answer to the Prayer of Others”
Retiring LWF president says he leaves this Assembly “hopeful and grateful”
STUTTGART, Germany, 27 July 2010 — “The message from this Assembly, which grew out of the petition, ‘Give Us Today Our Daily Bread,’ is that we are not asking for bread alone, Bishop Mark S. Hanson said this afternoon at the closing press conference of the Eleventh Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). As Luther wrote in his explanation of this petition, “we are praying for everything that people need to sustain life each day,” said Hanson. More…
