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Youth from LWF’s member churches are engaged in different local, regional and global activities of the Lutheran communion. Here, participants in the pre-council meeting, prior to the June 2025 LWF Council meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

New youth initiative connects faith and civic action

‘Theology, Human Rights, and Democracy’ workshop builds on momentum to lead change

Communion
Churches
Youth
News
08 Jun 2026
Participants in the Arusha workshop on human rights, climate and gender justice

Empowering faith leaders for advocacy in Africa

A workshop in Tanzania provides information and tools for effective advocacy in gender and climate justice 

Justice
Climate
Gender
News
08 Jun 2026
Ayantu Abdissa from the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. Photo: Private

Ethiopia: from public healthcare to peacebuilding and advocacy for women and girls

Ayantu Abdissa from Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, studying peacebuilding and conflict resolution

Churches
Gender
News
05 Jun 2026
Participants in the 2025 Council meeting in Ethiopia. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Council meets to begin looking toward next Assembly

LWF Council members will gather near Geneva from 11 to 15 June to review roadmap and timeline for Augsburg Assembly

Governance
Churches
News
05 Jun 2026
LWF delegation visiting the Responsible Parenthood Consultative and Crisis Center in Kharkiv.

Ukraine: creating spaces for healing and restoring hope

LWF and local partners continue support for war affected communities  

Humanitarian
News
04 Jun 2026
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2025 LWF annual reports: faithful witness and committed service

LWF publishes Be My Witnesses and Standing with Communities in Times of Cr

Governance
Humanitarian
Communion
News
02 Jun 2026
Young people from the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil plant trees as part of the ‘Sowing the Way’ campaign, held in conjunction with the 2025 COP30 in Belém. Photo: IECLB

Open call for youth-led climate projects

22 June deadline to submit proposals for community-based initiatives

Climate
Youth
News
02 Jun 2026
Soniya Tudu, a recent graduate of Nepal’s Lutheran Holistic Development Service, runs her own tailoring business, after gaining skills through the church’s youth empowerment project. Photo: NELC

Nepal: Vocational training opens new opportunities for youth

Lutheran church supports young men and women from marginalized communities

Youth
News
29 May 2026
New KELC Bishop Catherine Ngina Musau (middle) and (left) Deputy Bishop Dominic Onsongo Nyambisa with (right) Bishop Dr Msafiri Mbilu, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Photo: LWF/Erick Kinyanguli

LWF welcomes Kenya’s first Lutheran woman Bishop Catherine Ngina Musau

Thousands attend festive consecration and installation of new leader of Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church

Communion
Churches
News
25 May 2026
Urban murals in Callao were a key tool for highlighting opposition to the industrial project as communities, supported by the Lutheran Church of Peru, demanded that public health be prioritized over economic interests. Photo: Private

Church in Peru welcomes decision to halt environmentally harmful project

Climate activists denounce damage that a planned lime processing plant could have on local communities

Theology
Climate
News
22 May 2026
Together We Pray

Together We Pray: launch of Women’s Prayer Book

A new prayer collection will be launched on 27 May written by women from LWF member churches across the globe

Theology
Gender
News
22 May 2026
Civil society representatives and members of a girls’ club in front of Guara-Guara Secondary School in Buzi district, Sofala Province, Mozambique. Photo: Justa Paz

Linking global advocacy to girls’ right to education in Mozambique

LWF supports civil society engagement with UN human rights process

Justice
News
20 May 2026

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