Search | Fédération Luthérienne Mondiale

Résultats de la recherche

The steering group of the Global Young Reformers Network in Wittenberg. Photo: LWF/F. HÃ¼bner

Young Reformers to meet in Wittenberg

“Freed by God’s Love to Change the World”

GENEVA, 2 July 2015 (LWI) – The Global Young Reformer’s Network of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) will meet in Wittenberg, Germany, for a workshop on the Lutheran Reformation. From 22 August…

Caption: Vone and Viengkeo are eager students at the local school. Photo: LWF Laos

Laos: School support to students with disabilities

LWF school supplies to help deaf students Vone and Viengkeo learn

VIANGCHAN, Laos/ GENEVA, 9 July 2015 (LWI) - Vone and Viengkeo, 6 years old, are young girls like everyone else. They are neighbors in Vieng Phouka, a poor district of Laos…

Dr Helen Kijo-Bisimba, of Tanzania (left), and Rev. Solange Yumba wa Nkulu, DRC, at the womenâs rights advocacy training in Geneva. Photo: LWF/P. Mumia

Strengthening advocacy capacity for women’s rights in faith-based organizations

LWF and partners workshop facilitates access to UN mechanisms

GENEVA, 11 July 2015 (LWI) – Training workshops organized by The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) have strengthened Rev. Solange Yumba wa Nkulu’s role as national coordinator…

Elisabeth Purba (center) talking about HIV and AIDS at a youth workshop organized by the Indonesia LWF National Committee in Desa Bulu Cina, Sumatra. New global development goals will work to lower HIV and AIDS transmission rates. Photo: LWF/C. KÃ¤stner

Increased awareness of faith groups’ contribution to UN development goals

Junge reflects on LWF’s participation in New York roundtable

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) welcomes the increased awareness in the United Nations (UN) of the contribution of faith-based organizations to global development.…

LWF World Service team visiting remote rural communities who have been affected by the conflict in Colombia. Photo: LWF Colombia

Calling for a ceasefire in Colombia

Open letter to conflict parties during Havana peace talks

(LWI) – Together with leaders of many regional and international faith-based organizations, the General Secretary of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Rev. Dr Martin…

ELCIC National Bishop Susan Johnson (right), with Diaconal Minister Virginia Burke, at the convention closing worship service. Photo: ELCIC

Canadian Lutherans look outward as national convention ends

National Bishop Susan Johnson re-elected, church takes action on “welcoming the stranger” and climate justice

WINNIPEG, Canada/GENEVA, 16 July 2015 (LWI) -- The 15th National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC…

New HIV handbook to help churches learn practical response

Latin American churches find space for change in their HIV work

GENEVA, 20 July 2015 (LWI) – The work of churches on HIV and AIDS can offer space for transformation, according to a new publication by The Lutheran World Federation…

Rede de Diaconia members plan actions for 2015 after closing the 2014 year with positive results. Photo: FLD

Diakonia network bolstering the efforts of small Brazilian organizations

“Networking is one of the traits of vital ministry”

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil/GENEVA – 23 July 2015 (LWI) - A Lutheran foundation in Brazil is weaving together a group of small diaconal institutions to create a network that will enable its…

Young people are put through their paces at an ELCA refugee simulation exercise. Photo: LWF/R. Schlott

Young American Lutherans step into the shoes of refugees

Simulated refugee experience “life changing”

DETROIT, United States/GENEVA, 23 July 2015 (LWI) - One minute they were ordinary American young people, the next they were forced to make life-changing decisions as refugees in a simulation…

LWF President Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan with Bishop Yuri Novgorodov (very last row) and other pastors and church officials of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Kazakhstan, during the June visit to Astana. Photo: ELCRK

LWF president Bishop Younan visits member church in Kazakhstan

Accompanying each other in the Lutheran communion

JERUSALEM, 30 July 2015 - The President of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan recently paid a pastoral visit to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic…