Interfaith

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.

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.

LWF President Issues Pastoral Letter to Nigeria’s Lutherans

GENEVA, 17 January 2012 (LWI) – The President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Bishop Munib A. Younan has urged Nigeria’s two millions Lutherans to continue to struggle for justice in the midst of violence against Christian and Muslim worshippers by extremists.

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.

LWF President Younan and General Secretary Junge Reflect on Assisi Pilgrimage

ASSISI, Italy/GENEVA, 28 October 2011 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) leaders participating in the “Pilgrims of Truth, Pilgrims of Peace” day of reflection, dialogue and prayer in Assisi, Italy, have underlined the powerful role of faith in bringing peace and reconciliation.

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.