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ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton (third from right) said LSTC giving back the New Testament manuscript to the Greek Orthodox Church was “an expression of the essential partnership between theological education and Lutheran-Orthodox relations.” Photo: Will Nunnally

Important step toward reconciliation and witness to the world

Lutheran seminary returns rare 9th century manuscript of New Testament to Greek Orthodox Church

News
21 Nov 2016
Keynote speaker Rev. Dr Rafael Malpica-Padilla, director of Global Mission, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Photo: LWF/M. Renaux

Back to basics, bearing witness to God’s mission

Practitioners seek new strategies and collaboration for mission work in the LWF

News
21 Nov 2016
Rev. Dr Fidon Mwombeki, director of the LWF Department for Mission and Development, presents a 70-year trajectory of mission thinking and activities in the LWF, during the Consultation on Contemporary Mission in Global Christianity in Geneva. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation…”

Junge: Proclaim, serve without exclusion and “witness with joy and hope”

News
18 Nov 2016
Sanu in her school uniform. The prospect of higher education prompted her to find a way of attending school, even though school is a day's walk from home. Photo: Umesh Pokharel/LWF Nepal

Back to school after the earthquake

LWF helps Nepal’s children resume education

Humanitarian
News
18 Nov 2016
Chanset with her uniform and bicycle in front of her school. Photo: LWF/P. Simayvanh

Books and bicycles

LWF supplies children in Laos with school equipment

Justice
Humanitarian
News
17 Nov 2016
Mari Oumar Sall, LWF country program in Mauritania, describing efforts to combat desertification and care for refugees, at a side event of COP 22 in Marrakech, Morocco Photo: LWF/Ryan Rodrick Beiler

People of faith listening to the cries of the earth

Growing cooperation between LWF Mauritania program and church in Senegal

Unity
Climate
Churches
News
16 Nov 2016
LWF/ DIPECO radio host Victor Linares on air. Photo: LWF Colombia/Nubia Rojas

A radio against disaster

“Alerta Comunidad” in Colombia educates about risk management and reduction

Humanitarian
News
16 Nov 2016
Participants in the Consultation on Contemporary Mission in Global Christianity. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

How are Lutheran churches shaping holistic mission today?

LWF Global Consultation on Contemporary Mission in Global Christianity

Churches
News
16 Nov 2016
Discussing solidarity in Europe: Bishop Dr Tamás Fabiny (2nd from left), Bishop Helga Haugland Byfuglien (middle) and Bishop Dr Frank July (right). Photo: EKD/U. Hacke

Europe in Solidarity – Evangelical Lutheran insights

Panel with European LWF vice-presidents

Governance
Churches
Humanitarian
News
10 Nov 2016
LWF Ethiopia program coordinator Biruk Kebede (center) speaks at the panel debate on Education, Youth and Climate Change at COP 22, in Marrakech, Morocco. Photo: LWF/Ryan Rodrick Beiler

Connecting the local to the global at climate conference

LWF Ethiopia brings perspectives from communities devastated by climate change

Climate
Churches
Humanitarian
News
10 Nov 2016
Mariam Yaya shows the money she received to buy food. Photo: LWF Chad

Feed the hungry, strengthen local markets

Cash-based food support in Eastern Chad 

Humanitarian
News
09 Nov 2016
LWF’s representatives at the COP 22 talks in Marrakech, Morocco, participated in an ecumenical

Advocates urge transition to low-carbon economy, clean energy

Delegations from the ACT Alliance, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and World Council of Churches (WCC) at the United Nations climate conference

Unity
Climate
Churches
News
09 Nov 2016

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