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Taiwan churches to host Global Mission Consultation The meeting at China Lutheran seminary will launch a communion-wide renewal of mission in the modern world
Americas: Burghardt says ‘churches should be messengers of tangible hope’ LWF general secretary addresses Leadership Conference of the Americas 2025
Americas: Leadership conference opens in worship Church leaders gather under theme of ‘Embodying the Word’
Inspired by Hope: African Lutheran leaders gather in Rwanda An opportunity to strengthen churches, deepen collaboration, and advance commitment to climate justice
Vocation, values and practice of transformative leadership Newly elected superintendents of Indonesia’s Protestant Christian Batak Church attend seminar on servant leadership
Papua New Guinea: bringing the good news to the remotest places LWF Council member from PNG shares stories of working in some of the most inaccessible places on earth
A conversation with climate witnesses at the Kirchentag “The global climate crisis concerns all of us”
Global Lutheran Songbook features in concert and workshop at the Kirchentag Discovering the contemporary diversity of song in Lutheran churches across the world
Revisiting ‘Mission in Context’ for a changing world An African and an Asian theologian look back at the key 2004 document and reflect on future directions for the churches
Hanover to welcome more than 100,000 at 2025 Kirchentag Germany’s largest Protestant festival to explore faith, justice, and resilience in a changing world
Australia: searching for a way forward together As bishop of the church in Australia and New Zealand, Paul Smith led the Convention which approved women’s ordination
Building a network to support women in the church The new gender justice coordinators for Central and Eastern Europe reflect on priorities and challenges in their region
