Ethiopia

Timely Delivery of Safe Water through LWF’s Cooperation with Local Communities

GENEVA, 21 March 2013 (LWI) – “Water Cooperation” is the theme for this year’s World Water Day, marked globally on 22 March.

For The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), World Water Day 2013 is an opportunity to highlight how decades of collaboration with local and international partners facilitate the timely delivery of safe drinking water to people caught up in conflict and weather-related disasters across the world.

LWF President Addresses Ethiopian Church’s Eighth Council Meeting

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia/GENEVA, 13 July 2012 (LWI) – Religions must reclaim faith as a force for justice, peace and love, Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan, President of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), told the Eighth Council of the Ethiopian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) at Addis Ababa on 12 July.

Younan Welcomed as Man of Hope

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia/GENEVA, 13 July 2012 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) President Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan has completed a four-day solidarity visit to the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), one of the LWF’s largest and fastest growing churches, 8-12 July.

Crisis Prompts General Secretary Junge’s Call for Prayer, Financial Support

GENEVA, 11 August 2011 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Martin Junge has made an urgent appeal for prayer and financial support from the Lutheran communion to help deal with the impact of the current drought in the Horn of Africa.

LWF General Secretary Junge Visits Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia/GENEVA, 6 May 2011 (LWI) – During his first visit with the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Matin Junge commended the EECMY for expressing its diversity within the unity of its life.

Significant Strides but More Needs to Be Done

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia/GENEVA, 6 January 2011 (LWI) – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) marked 10 years of women’s ordination with a celebration and seminar reflecting on the long journey since Rev. Bekure Daba from the Western Synod became the first woman pastor in Africa’s second largest Lutheran church.

The former coordinator of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Tenth Assembly, Rev. Arthur Leichnitz, passed away on 3 March at the age of 59 in Winnipeg, Canada, after a long illness. Leichnitz, whose most recent activity was that of adviser to the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), had been entrusted in September 2001 with the task of planning the July 2003 LWF Assembly in Winnipeg from the LWF Secretariat in Geneva.

The Ethiopian Parliament endorsed a controversial bill on the work of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the country. Passed on 6 January 2009, the new bill determines the legal ground for the establishment and operation of civic institutions as well as international and local NGOs.

According to the new law, local NGOs and civic institutions are now required to raise 90 percent of their income from domestic sources, failing which they would be denied citizens’ rights, and would thus be considered as international NGOs.