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Participants at the Peace Messengers training in Antigua, Guatemala. Photo: LWF

Peace Messengers: opening hearts and minds

Lutheran theology and practical advocacy were at the heart of a recent Peace Messengers training in Antigua, Guatemala

Communion
Theology
Justice
News
02 Jun 2025
LWF Council member Mesrawati Telambanua of the Protestant Christian Church (BNKP). Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Created in God’s image to care for creation
By
Rev. Mesrawati Telaumbanua

Theology
Climate
Youth
Blog
30 May 2025
Representatives from LWF member churches in Latin America and the Caribbean and from North America gathered for a Leadership Conference of the Americas on 13-16 May 2025, held under the theme Embodying the Word. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Americas: ‘Embodying the Word’ both a theme and a lived experience

Lutheran church leaders compelled to transform realities of pain into hope 

Churches
News
19 May 2025
13 May 2025, Guadalajara, Mexico: Bread and wine is distributed for Holy Communion during opening worship celebrated for a Leadership Conference of the Americas on 13-16 May 2025. LWF/Albin Hillert

Americas: Leadership conference opens in worship

Church leaders gather under theme of ‘Embodying the Word’

Communion
Churches
Justice
News
14 May 2025
Participants in HKBP leadership seminar

Vocation, values and practice of transformative leadership

Newly elected superintendents of Indonesia’s Protestant Christian Batak Church attend seminar on servant leadership 

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News
12 May 2025
Rev. Charlotte Horn, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Württemberg. Photo: LWF/A. Hillert

Giving thanks in all circumstances
By
Rev. Charlotte Horn

Theology
Youth
Blog
16 Apr 2025
Young Lutherans at the conclusion of the 2024 Peace Messengers training in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano

Guatemala to host first Latin American Peace Messengers training

A former participant shares lessons learned as LWF gears up for first bilingual Peace Messengers training in Guatemala

Justice
Youth
News
15 Apr 2025
Handing over the symbolic check: (from left) Malte Liebscher (Evangelical Church in Central Germany), Ortrun Rhein from the children’s hospice, and Yannick Reckner (Evangelical Church Berlin - Brandenburg - Silesian Upper Lusatia). Photo: EKM

German youth bring hope to terminally ill children in Romania

€27,000 donation supports lifesaving care and comfort at Dr. Carl Wolff Children's Hospice

Churches
Youth
News
08 Apr 2025
Faye Lee, member of LWF delegation at CSW69 which was marking the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on women’s rights

Working to end child marriage in Malaysia
By
Faye Lee

Gender
Youth
Blog
26 Mar 2025

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