LWF scholarship holder explains her focus on Dalit women
The caste system is a brutal, systematic, and intentional social construct that stratifies the society into a strict social order, which sacralizes some bodies while dehumanizing…
The Asia Pre-Assembly will help enable delegates to take part fully in the Assembly.
This Pre-Assembly will facilitate a contextual reading of the Assembly’s themes and issues so that delegates come to the Assembly prepared to share their part of the global story.
It will also present a message on topical issues of concern.
This Pre-Assembly will:
harvest the fruits of Asia regional work from Windhoek to Krakow
provide contextual reflections on Assembly themes, the highlights of which will be incorporated into the Assembly discussion
orientate participants on the Thirteenth Assembly
include worship
present a slate of nominees for the next LWF Council
The three-day celebration was filled with joy and thanksgiving for cultural diversity and advancements, but also with solemn moments when women pastors and theologically trained women shared stories about the barriers they continue to face in…
Interview with UELCI Youth Secretary Chrisida Nithyakalyani
(LWI) – Youth leadership development programs run by Lutheran churches in India are equipping young people with skills that help communities take up issues of climate change, and…
Indian young reformer plants historic tree at Wittenberg Luther Garden
WITTENBERG, Germany/GENEVA, 28 August 2015 (LWI) – Youth delegates from Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches across the world witnessed the first young…
Four women in historic ordination in Madhya Pradesh Lutheran church
(LWI) - After a long wait a “dream has come true,” for Rev. L. K. Khakha from Tumsar, a small town in India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh. On 1 November, she and…
Perceptions are changing about the church and people living with HIV
(LWI) - India’s Lutheran churches are reaching out to people living with HIV in a context in which the epidemic is slowing down but poverty and stigma pose major…
Pranita Biswasi seeks solidarity across generations for the sake of the planet
(LWI) - Indian climate justice activist Sunemia Pranita Biswasi will be one of the speakers at the first-ever Joint Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration of the…
As the global community marks 2016 World AIDS Day today, 1 December, hundreds of church workers throughout The Lutheran World Federation communion in local congregations, communities and at global level, are raising awareness of the need to fight…
