Empowering vulnerable women helps saves lives

(LWI) – Eunice, a 27-year-old Tanzanian mother of five-month old twins lives with HIV. So do her babies.

“What will I do? My children and I are HIV positive,” she asks.

Eunice’s…

Tanzanian prime minister at installation

The new Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) has called on the church to serve the community by collaborating…

Wittenberg meeting on “Reformation and One World”

(LWI) – Representatives of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches in Tanzania and Germany met in Wittenberg, Germany, where they reflected on the Reformation and its global…

(LWI) - Already exhausted, Burundian refugee Hatungaimana Justina gave birth in the Mtendeli refugee camp in west Tanzania days after arriving there.

Clean water critical in camps

In refugee camps, a supply of clean water is…

Tanzanian Lutheran pastor Sandewa shares his personal experience

(LWI) – While the number of people affected by HIV and AIDS in Tanzania has increased since the first three cases reported in 1983, remarkable progress in prevention and…

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…

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…

Africa Vice-President Bishop Alex Malasusa says Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration is a moment to experience God’s grace

(LWI) – Tanzanian Bishop Dr Alex G. Malasusa will be at the Joint Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration of the…

As the global community marks 2016 World AIDS Day today, 1 December, hundreds of church workers throughout The Lutheran World Federation communion in local congregations, communities and at global level, are raising awareness of the need to fight…

LWF urges Human Rights Council to work with religious leaders

(LWI) - For members of one Lutheran diocese in Tanzania, there is no place for the persecution of people with albinism - an affliction that blights not only their community and…