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Ms Maria Immonen, director of LWF World Service, said practical ecumenical collaboration, “shows that faith and life are inseparable.”
Lutherans and Catholics: Together we can work miracles
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24 May 2019
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24 May 2019
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Delegates during the ALCLC, From left: Ms Minia Fecadu, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea; Ms Faith Wambua, Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church; Rev. Seganesh Ayele Asele, The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Rev. Justin Mofolo and Ms Mabel Madinga, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi.
Peace and justice issues are pertinent to the church’s mission in Africa
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23 May 2019
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23 May 2019
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LWF Assistant General Secretary for International Affairs and Human Rights, Dr Ojot Miru Ojulu addresses the Geneva conference. Photo: WCC/Ivars Kupcis
Educating for peace in a multi-religious world
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22 May 2019
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22 May 2019
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Maria Immonen, director of LWF’s World Service department at the Women’s Forum organized by Caritas Internationalis. Photo: Lucia Ballester Bellver/Caritas
Lutheran perspectives on women in leadership
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22 May 2019
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22 May 2019
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Rev. Angela del Consuelo Trejo Haager, from the Mexican Lutheran Church at the Latin America and the Caribbean & North America leadership meeting in Peru. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson
Churches in the Americas: witnessing together for justice and peace
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20 May 2019
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20 May 2019
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Rev. Dr Frank Otfried July, LWF Council member and Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg. Photo: EMH/Gottfried Stoppel
Getting to know the diversity of a denominational family
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17 May 2019
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17 May 2019
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World Service staff attending the GLTM hold the names of the countries where they are working. Photo:LWF/A. Hillert
Rooted in faith, committed to serving others
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16 May 2019
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16 May 2019
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A group of participants during the opening worship of the Africa Lutheran Church Leadership Consultation, hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, 13-17 May, in Moshi, Tanzania. All photos: LWF/ALCINET
Churches must affirm holistic witness despite challenging contexts
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16 May 2019
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16 May 2019
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ALIS participants at Truth Lutheran Church, a congregation of the ELCHK, where they were welcomed by senior pastor, Rev Jackson Yeung, and by Rev. Jenny Chan, former bishop of ELCHK and LWF Council member Photo: LWF/P.Lok
How the Holy Spirit shapes Lutheran identity
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15 May 2019
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15 May 2019
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