By Felix Samari, Communication Officer, Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria
This week’s presidential election in Nigeria was a landmark. Not only did voting run peacefully, but power was handed over peacefully. And today, two days…
By LWF Assistant General Secretary Ralston Deffenbaugh
Kenya: University students separated from one another according to religion, with the Christians shot and the Muslims spared. Yemen: Shia mosques bombed by Sunnis. Myanmar:…
In the wake of violence against migrant workers in his native South Africa, executive director of the Lutheran Church of Southern Africa's Rev. Dr David Tswaedi reminds us that we are all descended from another land or country.…
One of the main issues discussed at the Asia Church Leadership Conference held in Taipei, Taiwan, 12–15 April 2015, was the need to strengthen the cooperation of Lutheran theological seminaries and colleges in Asia.…
The LWF Gender Justice Policy gives new ideas and thoughts to the Lutheran Church in Korea. The process of developing the translation was good, although we learned there is room for improvements in such a…
In the Japan Lutheran Church, 70 percent of those who attend worship are women. It therefore means that women are the majority of servers in the church. They are happy to serve and give their voice at various…
The summer I was 13, I went sailing one sunny afternoon at a camp in upstate New York, US. My friend and I set out in a tiny sailboat, ready to pass the better part of the afternoon soaking up the sun and enjoying…
In the past five years, hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives through earthquakes in different parts of the world. In 2010, a massive earthquake in Haiti killed more than 160,000. Four…
On May 4, LWF Council member and Swedish Archbishop Dr Antje Jackelén met Pope Francis in the Vatican City. The Archbishop highlighted one of the products of the ongoing Lutheran Catholic dialogue – the publication From Conflict…
Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson invites Lutherans to join a truly global community reading and discussing Luther's theology online in preparation for the Reformation jubilee in 2017.
![JELC member Ms Kyoko Tawara [left] and Ms Kiyoe Narita from JLC, displaying the LWF Gender Justice Policy in Japanese, at the April 2015 WICAS meeting in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: LWF/WICAS](/sites/default/files/styles/ino_plain_2x_xl/public/2022-06/gender-justice-policy-japanese.jpg.webp?itok=M0HsfA0H)
