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Image Youth participants of the Leadership Conference of the Americas presenting their work priorities during the meeting. Photo: LWF/Gabriela Giese Americas: Women and youth networks present their priorities During the Leadership Conference of the Americas, the regions’ women’s and youth networks presented their work priorities for the coming years.
Image Rev. Dr Marcia Blasi standing next to a statue of Katharina von Bora at Faculdades EST, Brazil. Photo: Private A time to teach and learn “a diakonia of solidarity” Voices from the Communion: Rev. Dr Marcia Blasi (LWI) – For many higher institutions of learning around the world, the coronavirus disease pandemic not only ushered in an unexpected shift from in-person to online teacher-student…
Image Recipients of the honorary degree from Faculdades EST: from left to right, Dr Maricel Mena-López, Dr Nancy Cardoso, Rev. Dr Lori Altmann, Rev. Dr Mercedes Garcia Bachmann and Dr Wanda Deifelt. Photos: Private Latin American women honored for theological research Brazil’s Faculdades EST awards honorary degree to five theologians from different Christian traditions (LWI) - Five renowned Latin American women from different Christian traditions will be awarded an honorary degree by Faculdades EST,…
Image Rev. Dr Wanda Deifelt, feminist theology professor at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Photo: Luther College Feminist theology for a just and inclusive church Rev. Dr Wanda Deifelt shares her journey from Brazilian village to pioneering professor and theological advisor (LWI) - When Wanda Deifelt was riding the bus to school from her country village in southern Brazil, she never dreamed that…
