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Christine Mangale, of the Lutheran Office for World Community, attended CSW61 and issued a call for churches to promote dignity. Photo: WCC/Albin Hillert

As people of faith, we must work for women’s empowerment

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The Lutheran World Federation’s Women in Church and Society attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, held annually at the UN headquarters in New York. This year’s…

Bishop Melvin Jimenez makes a comment during the 2013 LWF Council meeting. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

Costa Rican Bishop Joins Government

A Moment of Kairos

(LWI) - The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Costa Rica (ILCO) has expressed its joy over the appointment of its president, Bishop Melvin Jimenez, as prime minister in the new Costa Rican government following…

A child at Casa Abierta in Carpio, San JosÃ©, plants one of the first trees to mark ILCO's observance of the 500th anniversrary of the Reformation. Photo: Geraldina Ãlvarez

500 trees, 500 faces for the Reformation anniversary

An opportunity to learn about the Lutheran Costa Rican Church

(LWI) - The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) is showing its commitment to the care for creation by planting 500 trees to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017…

Rev. Gilberto Mora Quesada said the church ordained Teresa Guadamuz âbased on merit and maturityâ after a long and sometimes difficult process, in which she always stood firm. Photo: ILCO/Rodolfo Mena Vargas

Costa Rican church ordains committed woman evangelist Teresa Guadamuz

A commitment to bring hope and transformation in community

(LWI) – The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) celebrated a historic day 3 April, when it ordained one of its longest-serving church workers…

Meeting of migrants in SarapiquÃ being assited with the necessary information on legal procedures for settling in the country and labor rights. Photo: ILCO

A pastoral ministry that empowers migrants

Costa Rican church assists youth and women seeking work in Nicaragua

(LWI) - The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) says a project it started 10 years ago to integrate migrants…

^The new board of the Costan Rican church are ready to be custodians of the resources of the church. Photo: ILCO

Renewed optimism for Costa Rican church

Leaders committed to improving participation in church life

(LWI) - The Costa Rican church has new governance and renewed optimism for the future.

At its recent assembly, the…

Children from Nicaragua watch a movie in the ILCO offices. Photo: ILCO

Serve the people stranded on the road

Costa Rica church supports Nicaraguans fleeing conflict

(LWI) - With a transit shelter in the Costa Rican capital of San José, the Lutheran Costa Rican Church…

The UNHCR

Award to church in Costa Rica for refugee response

"Fundamental actor in humanitarian response”

(LWI) - The Lutheran Costa Rican Church (ILCO) received the "Living Integration Seal” award 2019, award given by the…