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Image Delegates at the LUCA meeting include the LWF Council members and advisor from the Africa region and the leaders of the three sub-regions. Accra, Ghana, May 2018. Photo: LWF/Felix Samari A communion that engages the world Key messages emerge from the Lutheran Council in Africa (LWI) - The Lutheran Council in Africa (LUCA) has made a series of resolutions following its recent meeting in Accra…
Image Participants of the 2019 Retreat of Newly Elected Leaders with LWF General Secretary Rev Dr Martin Junge and LWF Area Secretaries. Photo: LWF/C. Kästner Being “a church for others” 2019 Retreat of Newly Elected Leaders shows similar joys and challenges in Lutheran churches worldwide (LWI) - To be the church is to care for people in need. This was one of the main observations when eleven recently elected Lutheran…
Image Rev. John Shadrack Donkoh, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana Photo: LWF/C. Kaestner Stepping up to lead the church in Ghana The president of the ELCG shares hopes and challenges of empowering a new generation of leaders in his country (LWI) - Rev. John Shadrack Donkoh was elected President of the …
Image UN Secretary-General António Guterres during a briefing on COVID-19 at WHO headquarters in Geneva. 24 February 2020. UN Photo / Jean Marc Ferré COVID-19: LWF joins global UN appeal to help the most vulnerable Joint action to respond to “unprecedented threat” of coronavirus pandemic (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) together with other organizations is joining the global appeal of the United Nations (UN) for donations to respond to …
Image Madam Martha Abugri was among 13 needy widows who received food supplies at the ELCG Grace Lutheran Church in Narango, in the Upper Eastern region. Photo: ELCG/Prosper Atiiga COVID-19: A time to “look out for the most vulnerable” in Ghana LWF’s support bridged a critical gap for elderly and widowed church members (LWI) – When the government imposed a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease in March, the…
