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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.

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.

Junge Urges Prayers for Work of Lutheran Churches

GENEVA, 12 January 2012 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has strongly condemned the increasing wave of violence against citizens and places of worship in Nigeria, expressing its deep concern that such attacks undermine community co-existence and the expression of religious freedom.

General Secretary Junge Calls for Action on Financial and Ecological Crises

GENEVA, 6 January 2012 (LWI) – The current financial and ecological crises will not be overcome by continuing to please the markets,  says The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Martin Junge in his 2012 New Year Message.

 Salvadoran Bishop Seeks Conversion of World Bank Loan into a Grant

GENEVA, 24 November 2011 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has expressed “deep concern” regarding the practice of responding to humanitarian emergencies with conditional loans that exacerbate poverty and increase national debt burdens.

LWF General Secretary: Take Up Responsibility to Work for Justice

GENEVA, 24 October 2011 (LWI) – Take up the cause of freedom with renewed purpose to mark Reformation Day 2011, Rev. Martin Junge, general secretary of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), has called on the worldwide communion of 145 member churches.

LWF Celebrates Three Extraordinary Women

GENEVA, 7 October 2011 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) celebrates the awarding of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to three women peace campaigners as a reminder to the world that faith and peace-building are inseparable.

Unity of Thought on Market Economy at Muslim-Christian Dialogue

KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia/GENEVA, 5 October 2011 (LWI) – Muslims and Christians at a Lutheran World Federation (LWF) sponsored consultation on structural greed have agreed to common ground for tackling the “death-bound” neoliberal economic system.