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    A symbolic moment during the 60th anniversary of the first all-Africa Lutheran conference, held in 2015. Photo: Photo: LWF/ Tsion Alemayehu

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Meeting in Suriname is another opportunity for churches to affirm that the LWF communion is a big family. Here, a youth delegate at a LAC leadership conference in La Paz, Bolivia. Photo: LWF/Eugenio Albrecht Church

Lutheran church in Suriname hosts LWF Assembly preparations for the Americas

Delegates from 19 churches and ecumenical guests are among 70 participants

Communion
News
26 Aug 2016
A symbolic moment during the 60th anniverary of the first all-Africa Lutheran conference, held in 2015. Photo: Photo: LWF/ Tsion Alemayehu
6 Feb – 10 Feb 2017

Pre-Assembly - Africa

Communion
Event
Young people from all over Brazil and beyond massed to form the seal of Martin Luther, known as the Luther Rose. Photo: IECLB

A symbol of growing witness

Brazilian church hosts 1,500 young people from around the world

Churches
News
24 Aug 2016
Participants in the LWF workshop at Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, included Rev. Mamadou T. Diouf (left), President of the Lutheran Church of Senegal. Photo: LWF/ David Adjia
14 Nov – 19 Nov 2016

Diakonia and human resource management workshops

Churches
Event
During the 23rd IECLB Youth Congress, Young Reformers from LWF member churches in the LAC and other regions exchanged information on the

Growing in confidence as agents of change
By
Marian Andrea Coy Contreras

Churches
Humanitarian
Blog
19 Aug 2016
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton, addressing the Churchwide Assembly in New Orleans: Photo: ELCA

LWF encouraged by member church action to review investments in fossil fuel companies

General Secretary Junge at Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America  

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Churches
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19 Aug 2016
Bishop Ben Chun Wa Chang, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong and Rev. Anne Burghardt, LWF study secretary for Ecumenical Relations, show the Chinese translation of the Reformation Anniversary booklets. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson

What does it mean to be liberated by God's Grace?

Asia Pre-Assembly participants discuss LWF Twelfth Assembly themes

Communion
Churches
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19 Aug 2016
LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge said the Asia Pre-Assembly is an opportunity for church representatives to meet, share their work and exchange ideas. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson

Where churches share their gifts, enrich each other and serve the world

LWF General Secretary Junge shares a vision for the LWF at Asia Pre-Assembly

Theology
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Churches
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17 Aug 2016
Worship band “Jāņa ielas republika” (Republic of St John's Street) performs with guitar players at a training concert by the Youth Center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia. ELCL/ Augusts Kolms

We may not see it all, but something special is happening
By
Gints Graudiņš

Churches
Blog
16 Aug 2016

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