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Image With Passion for the Church and for the World LWF Strategy 2019 – 2024 Sets forth the LWF’s strategic plan from 2019-2024 on its common journey as a communion of churches.
Image "Precious in God's Eyes" Pledge Card The Lutheran World Federation is encouraging people of faith to speak up publicly against gender-based violence.
Image Refugees: An opportunity to grow together Joint ecumenical statement for World Refugee Day 2017 The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has joined the worldwide plea of a wide range of ecumenical groups for solidarity with the world’s millions of
Image The Participation of Women in the Ordained Ministry and Leadership in LWF Member Churches A baseline assessment among LWF member churches carried forward in 2016 on the proportion of women in decision-making positions and in the ordained
Image Towards a convivial economy: the contribution of a re-formed community diakonia in Europe Towards a Convivial Economy is a result of a further phase of sharing concepts and practices of conviviality – described as the art and practice of
Image Department for Theology and Public Witness List of Publications, January 2017 Overview of DTPW publications including prices and ordering information.
Image Department for Theology and Public Witness annual report 2015 This 2015 report of the Department for Theology and Public Witness draws attention to some of the year's Reformation anniversary highlights, which
Image Omatala Omatala is an Oshiwambo word for “marketplace”; for The Lutheran World Twelfth Assembly, the Omatala is a space for encounter, creativity
Image Joint Common Prayer Lutheran–Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017 The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU), in cooperation with a group of noted theologi