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Bishop Johan Tyrberg, Diocese of Lund, Sweden, during a visit to the LWF Communion Office in Geneva, Switzerland, September 2021. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay
22 Oct
Lund: Celebrating “five years of a new friendship”
Member Churches, Voices from the Communion, Ecumenical
22 Oct
In this Voices from the Communion interview, Bishop Johan Tyrberg, Diocese of Lund, Church of Sweden, looks back at his how a historic ecumenical event that put his home city on the global map five...
At Ngam refugee camp, Cameroon, the LWF trains people in modern farming techniques. By keeping a strict ratio of how many seeds to sow per hectare and planting Cassava and Groundnut together, they can increase harvests and retain soil fertility over a longer time. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
21 Oct
LWF joins Climate and Environment Charter
Diakonia, Advocacy, Climate
21 Oct
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) recently signed the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations.
Members of the Synod of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland vote to ordain women. Photo: Agnieszka Godfrejów-Tarnogórska
20 Oct
Polish church votes to ordain women pastors
Women Ordination, Women in Ordained Ministry
20 Oct
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has welcomed the decision by the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland to allow women to be ordained as pastors.
Young people attending COP25 in Madrid, Spain, in 2019. The slogan “#TimeForAction is now” has not lost its urgency. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
20 Oct
COP26: Thirty-two young people to represent LWF at climate summit
COP26, Youth, Climate Justice, Advocacy
20 Oct
This year, the Lutheran World Federation’s (LWF) delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties is larger than in previous years: 32 young people join LWF staff to advocate for climate...
Lack of access to humanitarian assistance for the asylum seekers at the Belarus-Poland border is a major concern. Photo: Grzegorz W. Tężycki via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA)
20 Oct
Polish church speaks out on situation at Poland-Belarus border
Refugees, Migrants, humanitarian aid
20 Oct
We have a commitment “to care for the weakest and to stand up for those who have no voice. Among those, migrants and refugees have a particular place in the Biblical message,” wrote the Synod of the...
LWF partners with public theology institutes in Germany and South Africa to produce a series of resources aimed at equipping churches to strengthen their engagement in the public space. Photo: LWF/JC Valeriano
19 Oct
Launch of new online public theology resources
Public Space, Public theology
19 Oct
The Lutheran World Federation has “joined hands” with the Berlin Institute for Public Theology and the Beyers Naudé Center for Public Theology to produce a series of resources on engagement in the...
In Laos, thanks to a joint project by LWF and Brot für die Welt, villagers use natural compost techniques to do their vegetable gardening. Photo: Thomas Lohnes
15 Oct
“Famine is preventable, we must act immediately”
Food Security, Livelihoods, Interfaith, World Food Day
15 Oct
In a joint statement for World Food Day (16 October), the Lutheran World Federation and faith partners, denounce food insecurity.
A member of a Symbols of Hope Ethiopia women’s self-help group in the southern region of Hosaena, sharing her experiences. Photo: LWF/M. Dölker
15 Oct
Stories of hope have inspired local solutions to irregular migration
Symbols of Hope, Migrants, Diakonia
15 Oct
Representatives of churches participating in the Symbols of Hope initiative have emphasized the critical role of faith communities in stopping irregular migration and providing local approaches to...
The ceiling of the Human Rights Council, in the Palais des Nations where sessions typically take place. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, statements to the 48th session were submitted virtually. Photo: LWF/C. Kästner
14 Oct
Human Rights Council: LWF and member churches in Namibia and Sierra Leone submit statements defending human rights
United Nations Human Rights Council, UPR
14 Oct
In statements to the UN Human Rights Council, LWF and two of its member churches call upon the governments in Sierra Leone and Namibia to continue improving the state of human rights in their country.
Erika Rodning from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada illustrates the lack of balance in finance of the global climate response during a stunt at COP25 in Madrid, Spain. Most of the finance is put into mitigation, some into adaptation, but very little into loss and damage, even though “that's where the people are". Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
14 Oct
COP26: Climate crisis requires urgent action
COP26, Advocacy, Ecumenical, Climate
14 Oct
The LWF, with the Global Action and Prayer Chain for Climate Justice, is calling on governments to ramp up their efforts and commitments to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Malagasy Lutheran Church volunteers distribute food in Toliary synod, in the country’s drought-hit southern region. The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Slovak Republic provided funding for the project. Photo: MLC
12 Oct
Lutheran communion solidarity for Madagascar’s drought-hit south
Communion Building, LWF member churches, Diakonia
12 Oct
Lutheran communion solidarity between churches in Slovakia and Madagascar has enabled urgent food aid to reach the most vulnerable residents in a drought-stricken region where “almost all of the...
The Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras President Pastor Rev. Julio Cabellero. Photo: LWF
8 Oct
Honduras: "We go without fear, we bless them”
Voices from the Communion, Communion Building, LWF member churches, peace building, unemployment, Violence, COVID19, coronavirus
8 Oct
In this Voices from the Communion, The Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras President Pastor Rev. Julio Cabellero talks about the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic presents for his church in addition...
Adyero Paradise (left), a returnee in Magwi County and LWF South Sudan staff member – Lillian (right), a returnee in Magwi County interviewed by LWF South Sudan, September 2021. Photo: LWF/ C. Mattner
6 Oct
“I heard of signs of peace in South Sudan, so I decided to come back”
Advocacy, Human Rights, Gender Justice, Women
6 Oct
Since October 2019 the LWF World Service has been working with partners to promote the socio-economic integration of returnees and receiving communities in Magwi County. The county is situated in...
LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge addresses faith leaders gathered in the Vatican for the ‘Faith and Science: Towards COP26’ meeting. Photo: Vatican Media
4 Oct
Plea from faith leaders: Save our common home
Climate Change, Creation - Not for Sale, Pope Francis, vatican, Ecumenical, General Secretary, Interfaith
4 Oct
“We have inherited a garden: we must not leave a desert to our children.” That stark warning was at the heart of a joint appeal from leaders of all the world’s religious communities who gathered in...
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania hospitals receive 100 oxygen cylinders and Personal Protective Equipment from the Lutheran Mission Cooperation (LMC) to help meet demand. Erick K. Adolph/ELCT
30 Sep
Oxygen for Lutheran hospitals in Tanzania
Member Churches, COVID19
30 Sep
In January 2020, the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, a teaching hospital of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, installed an oxygen production plant capable of filling...
Rev. Bertha Godfrey Munkhondya is the first woman ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi. Photo: David Mang’enda/ALCINET
28 Sep
First woman ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi
Women Ordination, Women, Member Churches
28 Sep
The Lutheran World Federation communion of churches celebrates the ordination of Rev. Bertha Godfrey Munkhondya, first woman ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament in the Evangelical Lutheran...
German Youth Committee working on the podcast “With Body and Soul”. Photo: GNC/LWF
27 Sep
Germany: Podcast “With Body and Soul” launched
Member Churches, Communion Building
27 Sep
“With Body and Soul” (Mit Leib und Seele) is the name of the new podcast produced by the Youth Committee of the German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (GNC/LWF).
Diocese of Lund Bishop Johan Tyrberg and a delegation of pastors and deans visiting the LWF Communion Office, hosted by General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay
24 Sep
Lund ecumenical commemoration has inspired local initiatives
Lund, Ecumenical, LWF member churches, Communion Building, ecumenical rel, Joint Ecumenical Commemoration, Welcoming the Stranger
24 Sep
Almost five years since the historic commemoration of 500 years of the Reformation in Sweden, there is a growing spirit of ecumenism and commitment among Catholics and Lutherans to work for peace and...
LWF Council 2018. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay
23 Sep
Lutheran communicators share how their tasks changed during the pandemic
Member Churches, Communications
23 Sep
Communicators from the Lutheran World Federation member churches and related agencies, representing 18 member churches, strengthened relations and welcomed new communicators in four online meetings...
People queuing outside St. Pers Church in Uppsala, Sweden, to cast their vote in the church elections. Photo: Magnus Aronson/Ikon
22 Sep
Sweden: Inclusive and democratic church elections
LWF member churches, Communion Building
22 Sep
The Church of Sweden, a member church of the LWF, held its last church elections from 6 to 19 September. Having been a state church until 2000, this largest faith community in the country now...
Children behind an onion tank to filter drinking water in Minawao refugee camp. Cameroon, December 2017. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner
22 Sep
“An unequivocal ‘no’ to violence against children”
Child Protection, Protection, Children's rights, rights of children, Children, Violence, LWF member churches
22 Sep
On 16 September 2021, as part of the Together to #EndViolence Solutions Summit Series, the LWF pledged to raise awareness and strengthen advocacy on how to prevent violence against children with the...
At the 2019 Peace Messengers international training workshop in Tallinn, Estonia, Juan Carlos Orantes Rodríguez (left) and Oneyda Elizabeth Fuentes Rivera, sharing about the church’s role in peacebuilding in El Salvador. Photo: LWF/S. Kit
21 Sep
International Day of Peace: LWF calls for proposals of youth-led projects
Interfaith, LWF member churches, peacebuilding, Youth, Public theology
21 Sep
The LWF has invited young people in its member churches to propose projects that advance the promotion of peace in their communities and build societies where all people are included. Youth—under 30...
Participants in the online training included Lillian W. Kantai, LWF Kenya-Somali Program (left) and Sabrina Senger, Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil. Photos courtesy
17 Sep
A new phase in faith-based advocacy for gender justice
Action for Justice, Human Rights, Gender Justice, LWF member churches, Advocacy, faith-based organizations, Gender Justice & Women’s Empowerment, women's advocacy, women's human rights
17 Sep
At this year's annual women’s human rights training by faith-based organizations, which after six years of international gatherings is shifting to a more regional-based approach, utilizing the...
Rev. Rebecca Maduley Kurubai, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Photo: Courtesy
17 Sep
Tanzania: The journey of a woman pastor with her indigenous community
Voices from the Communion, LWF member churches, Communion Building, Women, Member Churches, Ordained Ministry, Women in Ordained Ministry, women in leadership, indigenous people, Minorities and Indigenous People
17 Sep
In this Voices from the Communion Rev. Rebecca Maduley Kurubai, the first ordained Maasai woman pastor in the Southern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, talks about her passion...
A group of nursery gardeners, themselves Nigerian refugees, work in a tree nursery in the Minawao camp for Nigerian refugees in Cameroon in 2019. Planted across 20 so-called ‘green spaces’, a five-year planting and harvest cycle provides firewood, vines for building roofs, and a step in alleviating environmental impact in and around Minawao. The refugees are supported by the LWF, together with a range of partners. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
15 Sep
Human Rights Council: LWF calls for Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change
Human Rights, human rights council, Climate Change, Interfaith, Advocacy
15 Sep
As part of the Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change, Environment and Human Rights, the LWF has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish a Special Rapporteur mandate on...
Rev. Dr Bruk Ayele Asale, president of the Mekane Yesus Seminary, on the ground level stairway to a dormitory floor. The walls bear the stained marks of the height that flooding waters had reached. All Photos: LWF/M. Dölker
14 Sep
Ethiopia: Support critical to rebuild lives and community of church seminary
Diakonia, LWF member churches
14 Sep
Nearly a month after deadly flash floods caused deaths and destruction at the Mekane Yesus Seminary campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the institution requires assistance not only to rebuild...
Scholars in the LWF ‘Coming together meetings’ included, from left: Emmanuel Lanbon (Ghana), Hans-Christoph Thapelo Lange (South Africa) and Haihong Lin (Hong Kong). Photo: Courtesy
13 Sep
New platforms for LWF scholars
Theology, Member Churches, Diakonia, Scholarships
13 Sep
Participants in two new platforms that connect scholarship holders from Lutheran churches across the world have welcomed the initiative as a space where students can empower and inspire each other,...
Initiative to bring awareness of violence against displaced children in collaboration with faith-based actors and LWF country program staff. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
10 Sep
Committed to prevent violence against children
Protection, LWF member churches, Child Protection, Violence
10 Sep
The LWF and the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children (ENDviolence), will join hands to promote awareness of violence against children. A public event on 16 September will showcase the...
Photo: Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona/Unsplash
8 Sep
Advocacy at local level a key focus of annual women’s human rights training
advocacy training, women's human rights, Ecumenical
8 Sep
Nearly 60 delegates from faith-based organizations around the world are meeting online for the annual training on advocacy for women’s human rights, 7-9 September.
The LWF and EVA publishing house have jointly produced several publications. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay
7 Sep
LWF congratulates EVA publishing house on 75th anniversary
Lutheran theology, Public theology, LWF Publications
7 Sep
The LWF has congratulated the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (EVA), based in Leipzig, Germany, on its 75th anniversary. In a letter, the LWF acknowledged the longstanding cooperation in producing many...
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