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A Tool to Support Gender Policy in the LWF

FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil/GENEVA, 26 April 2012 (LWI) – Women theologians and leaders from The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have formed a network with a goal to promote women leadership with gender justice in all spheres of church work.

Enormous Pressure on Already Stretched Resources

MBERE, Mauritania/GENEVA, 20 April 2012 (LWI) – It looks like any other school yard, any other school day. But it is actually the first day of school in Camp Mbere, a refugee camp 60 kilometers from the Malian border with Mauritania. Suddenly a camera attracts attention and hundreds of children set off, screaming and laughing.

Religious Leaders’ Voice Urged in the Call for Bread, Freedom and Social Justice

PARDAMEAN, Indonesia/GENEVA, 5 April 2012 (LWI) – Farmer Jaya Hotman Turnip used to struggle every year when the rains came.

“I was always short of funds and could never cultivate our entire ancestral land,” Turnip said recently at his maize farm at Pardamean, a remote village in the North Sumatra province of Indonesia.

Best Grassroots Practices Presented at LWF Interfaith Conference

MEDAN, Indonesia/GENEVA, 5 April 2012, (LWI) –Grass root level banking systems for the poor have been hailed as examples of the kind of economic democracy promoted by The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) to counter greed and exploitation.

Communiqué from ILC-LWF Meeting Affirms Value of Global Conversations

GENEVA, 4 April 2012 (LWI) – Representatives of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the International Lutheran Council (ILC) highlighted in their meeting this year the need to continue conversations about common commemorations of the 500^th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.

May 2012 “green & just” – An Opportunity for Real Time Learning, Says Junge

GENEVA, 27 March 2012 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is inviting church leaders and congregation members in the Lutheran communion and ecumenical partners to participate in its first virtual conference on ecological justice under the motto “green&just.”

Faith Communities Urged to Learn from Social Movements Clamoring for Change

MEDAN, Indonesia/GENEVA, 20 March 2012 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) continues a series of interfaith consultations on structural greed, this time with a goal to defining common strategies by Christians and Muslims in ensuring equitable and just sharing of economic resources.

Slight Increase Globally with Growth in Africa and Asia

GENEVA, 14 March 2012 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches continued to show slight growth globally in 2011, according to statistics gathered by the LWF Communion Office.