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Hope for a humanitarian sector in turmoil? Global Leadership Team Meeting hears how World Service and partners are responding to economic and political challenges
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
LWF congratulates Pope Leo XIV, expresses hope for building “bridges of peace” “May Catholics and Lutherans continue to grow towards unity through joint service and shared witness”
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”
80 years after WW2: Renewing our commitment to peace LWF Vice-Presidents in Europe urge churches to be active peacemakers
Global Lutheran Songbook features in concert and workshop at the Kirchentag Discovering the contemporary diversity of song in Lutheran churches across the world
Prioritize education in emergencies across East and Southern Africa "A lifeline for millions of children”
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
Pope Francis: “radical witness to the gospel” A pope who placed the most marginalized people at the very heart of his pontificate
