PARAMARIBO, Suriname/GENEVA, 2 September 2016 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge says the growing engagement among churches in LWF’s regions is a “very positive step” towards communion building.…
(LWI) – There is a white dove on almost every cross that Christian Chavarria Ayala paints. The artist sits in his studio on the upper floor of the La Résurrection Lutheran congregation in San Salvador and dips a paintbrush into blue paint for the…
Bukoba Lutheran Bishop: Many people are “deeply shaken”
(LWI) – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) together with its diaconal arm, and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) are reaching out to families affected by the 5.7…
Junge addresses shared identity as churches in communion
(LWI) – How do The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches around the world relate to fundamental principles that shape the identity and work of the global communion of 145…
Church leaders seek collaboration in finding solutions to common challenges
(LWI) – A group of leaders from The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches have requested LWF’s collaboration in developing a communion-wide response to…
Celebrating 25 years of Lutheran women’s ordination in Tanzania’s Northern Diocese
(LWI) - More than 10 percent of ordained pastors in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) are women, and nearly all the church’s 24 dioceses…
Flowering ash in Luther Garden and altar cloth for Castle Church
(LWI) – Last weekend Wittenberg welcomed a prominent visitor: Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. The Queen is also head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark.
(LWI) – Thirteen-year-old Nima Chhiyog Lama still dreams about the small cozy room in her old house. A warm place, her family around her and the wood fire burning in the kitchen - much like…
LWF Asia Vice-President Kwon shares her hope for unity
(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Vice-President for Asia, Eun-hae Kwon, will be among LWF representatives participating in the Joint Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration of 500…