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Report of the LWF General Secretary Martin Junge at the Council 2018 in Geneva. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

“A defining moment for the church”

Report of the LWF General Secretary to the Council

Governance
Communion
Churches
News
28 Jun 2018
Cheryl Philip, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, presents the liturgy at the opening worship of the LWF Council 2018. All photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

LWF Council 2018 opens with joyful worship

“Our energy… comes from the gifts we have freely received”

Governance
Communion
Churches
News
28 Jun 2018
“Freely you have received, freely give” (Mt 10:8) is the theme of the Council. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Setting the tone for the communion in coming years

LWF Council to meet in Geneva 28 June - 2 July

Communion
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22 Jun 2018
Children play in a rice field in Laos. Photo: LWF/Thomas Lohnes

Global faith leaders endorse Season of Creation

“Live-giving relationship with God’s creation”

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19 Jun 2018
Opening worship of the Central Committee meeting in the chapel of the Ecumenical Centre. Photo: Albin Hillert/WCC.

Witness to unity in a fragmented world

LWF greets World Council of Churches on 70th anniversary

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17 Jun 2018
LWF President Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa and His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, together after Vespers at the Stavropegial Monastery of the Life-giving Spring at Baloukli, on Sunday 10 June. Photo: LWF/ A. S. Danielsson

Strengthening relationships between LWF and Orthodox Church

LWF President Musa and Vice-President Viilma visit Ecumenical Patriarch at The Phanar

Unity
Governance
News
12 Jun 2018
The installation of Archbishop Tapio Luoma in Turku cathedral, Finland. Photo: Timo Jakonen

Tapio Luoma installed Archbishop in Finland

LWF General Secretary receives St Henry’s cross, highest honour of Finnish church

Governance
Churches
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04 Jun 2018
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Council 2018 documents

Youth
Unity
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Document
01 Jun 2018
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Council 2018 documents - Resolutions, Public Statements, Messages

Youth
Unity
Theology
Document
01 Jun 2018

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