News
22
Jun
Africa: Prioritizing theological education and leadership formation
22
Jun
Leaders of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches in Africa will gather, 27 June -1 July, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the Africa Lutheran Church Leadership Consultation (ALCLC), held normally every year. The meeting’s theme is: “Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life (Jn 6:68).”
22
Jun
Africa: Prioritizing theological education and leadership formation
22
Jun
Leaders of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches in Africa will gather, 27 June -1 July, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the Africa Lutheran Church Leadership Consultation (ALCLC), held...
31
May
Tanzania: new program on theology, gender and leadership
31
May
Sixteen women and men from the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches across Africa have begun training as part of a new gender justice program established in memory of the pioneering...
27
May
Asia: Called to become prophetic witnesses to the gospel
27
May
Lutheran leaders from the Asia region have concluded their first in-person encounter since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic with a pledge “to promote discernment, dialogue and critical thinking”...
20
May
Americas: “Restoring dry bones” in a world in need
20
May
Creating safe spaces, so that all people can speak and be heard, recognizing that the church and its people are tools of the Kingdom of God and are on the move by the strength, the creativity and the...
18
May
Reaffirming the commitment to respond to visible and forgotten crises
18
May
At its Global Leadership Team Meeting in Kenya earlier this month, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) World Service reaffirmed its commitment to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable...
16
May
Americas: Churches in Chile filling gaps in community
16
May
Last week, the LWF Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and North America (NA) regions met in person at the “Leadership Conference of the Americas” where participants were invited to witness the...
29
Apr
Chile: Lutheran bishop appointed chaplain to presidential palace
29
Apr
On 21 April, Rev. Izani Bruch, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile (IELCH) has been appointed chaplain of the Palacio de La Moneda of Chile, the headquarters of governmental affairs...
17
Feb
Asia: Elected church leaders take office during pandemic, LWF offers online support
17
Feb
Despite the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the LWF member churches in the Asia region elected and installed 21 new leaders for churches in 9 countries in 2020 and 2021.
16
Nov
Netherlands: Investing in communities to be “carriers of sustainable diakonia”
16
Nov
Four new storybooks on conviviality — the art and practice of living together, have been launched by the LWF, as part of its European Diaconal Process. Wilzing, who has contributed to the first...
29
Jun
LWF’s Hélène Ralivao Fund awards first scholarships for women in Africa
29
Jun
The legacy of Malagasy Lutheran Church pioneer woman theologian Hélène Ralivao will live on through a new program dedicated to women’s theological education and leadership development in Africa. The...
10
May
Germany: Anna-Nicole Heinrich youngest president of EKD synod
10
May
This weekend Ms Anna-Nicole Heinrich was elected as the new president of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany on 8 May. A 25-year-old student from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria...
26
Apr
COVID-19: Indian Churches lose two leaders in same week
26
Apr
The Lutheran World Federation joins with the United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India to mourn the loss of two leaders in the same week. Their deaths, one from COVID-19, come as the nation is...
9
Apr
Germany: Worship and the revival of churches
9
Apr
In this Voices from the Communion Rev. Sebastian Bugs talks about the "Revival of the churches" project that the GNC/LWF Youth Committee recently completed and documented in a video, as...
12
Feb
Young reformers build networks that keep churches connected
12
Feb
More than 30 members of The LWF Global Young Reformers Network 2.0 in the Latin American and Caribbean and North American regions recently met online to discuss the connection between their...
28
Jan
2020 selection complete, 85 candidates awarded LWF scholarships
28
Jan
The LWF has completed its 2020 scholarship approval process, with 85 new candidates from the communion’s member churches set to pursue degree and diploma courses in theology and different areas of...
4
Dec
Ministry of dialogue in the church in Singapore
4
Dec
In this Voices from the Communion: Singaporean Lutheran Bishop Terry Kee looks back at more than three decades of ministry in many different places, but always with one thing in common—the need to...
25
Sep
Digitalization offers opportunities, raises theological questions
25
Sep
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic accelerated developments and changes that European churches and societies had been facing in the past years. Being church online raises new questions for...
22
Sep
Witness towards the world, among the people of the world
22
Sep
“There is a ‘prophetic defiance’ in us not letting go of each other because of COVID-19, in us finding ways to be connected, devising paths to continue expressing the relationships into which God is...
22
Sep
Being church in times of transformation
22
Sep
For the first time, the LWF will host an online leadership consultation with about 100 participants from its member churches in Europe.
15
Sep
Call for nominations for LWF General Secretary
15
Sep
Lutheran World Federation member churches are invited to send in nominations for the post of the ninth General Secretary of the global communion.
13
Jul
LWF offers condolences to the Malagasy Lutheran Church
13
Jul
The Lutheran World Federation has conveyed sincere condolences to the Malagasy Lutheran following the death of the church’s president, Rev. Dr David Rakotonirina.
13
Mar
Malawi: Youth wake us up and women keep us moving
13
Mar
The creativity of the The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi (ELCM) youth, the action of its women and the faithfulness of its members is the reason for the church’s record growth over the past 39...
6
Nov
Churches in Central and Eastern Europe discuss Lutheran identity, diversity and pneumatology
6
Nov
The consultation with the theme “Diversity and identity – different kinds of gifts, but the same spirit... (1 Corinthians 12, 4-6)” took place from 28 to 30 October in Tallinn, Estonia, and offered...
7
Oct
Asian church leaders call for greater interfaith cooperation
7
Oct
The Asia Church Leadership Conference has concluded in Indonesia with a call to all churches to work more closely together with other faith communities to promote urgent issues such as gender justice...
4
Oct
Junge to Asian churches: Peace-building is our only choice
4
Oct
Call to live and work more closely together as a communion of churches from the LWF General Secretary, Rev. Dr Martin Junge, at the start of the Asia Church Leadership Conference on 3 October.
2
Oct
Asia Church Leadership Conference to focus on interfaith relations
2
Oct
‘Pursuing Peace through Interfaith Relations’ is the theme of the Asia Church Leadership Conference which opens in the Indonesian city of Pematang Siantar on 2 October.
