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Image Rev. Heeme Yang, Vice-President, Japan Lutheran Church. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay Japan: An opportunity for new beginnings From her Korean Buddhist origins, Anglican college life, to becoming a Lutheran church Vice-President, it’s been 20 years since Rev. Heeme Yang “knocked on the seminary door.”
Image Asian church leaders gathered to discuss differences and commonalities across Lutheran churches of the Asia region. Photo: LWF/JC Valeriano Embracing differences in multi-faceted Asia Lutheran identity acknowledges solidarity amidst suffering (LWI) - If there is no one common Lutheran identity in multi-faceted Asia, what unites the various Lutheran expressions across the continent? Asian theologians acknowledge…
Image Rev. Toshiki Toma (right) and Rev. KristÃn Ãórunn Tómasdóttir (third from left) with the congregation at Laugarnes-church in Reykjavik. Photo: Rev. Hjalti Jón Sverrisson Iceland’s pastor for immigrants and asylum seekers Church seeks to ‘welcome the stranger’ as numbers of foreigners rise in the Nordic nation (LWI) - Rev. Toshiki Toma’s work in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik reflects the far-reaching changes taking place in the geographically isolated…
