Lutheran church supports protests against privatization of health and education

(LWI) - The Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras (ICLH) has declared its solidarity with…

Julian Appl: “My grandma was thrilled”

(LWI) - The congregation council in Hohenstadt in the Hersbruck deanery has elected 18-year-old Julian Appl as its ombudsperson – very probably the youngest person in the…

ELCT women pastors and theologians celebrate milestones in a 30 year-journey

(LWI) - Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) recently marked three…

Empowering through education

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is calling for scholarship applications for studies and training related to theological, diaconal and development work. “We encourage all churches to submit…

“It is by making a difference that a church is big”

(LWI) - Churches flourish where people journey with each other, worshipping together, talking and listening to each other as they “gather and walk in Christ’s name,” the General…

Young German environmental activist joins ecumenical and interfaith participants at Laudato Si’ conference in Kenya

(LWI) - Listen to young people and take seriously their concerns about the crisis facing our common home! That was the…

LWF International Lay Leaders’ Seminar takes place in Geneva and Wittenberg

(LWI) - “The seminar is a life-changing unique event that has widened my world view,” says Elizabeth Brennan Burgess from the…

KELC promotes theological foundations for gender justice 

(LWI) - Rev. Catherine Ngina Musau, head of the Gender Justice Program in the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (KELC…

Working with youth, serving the world, from the northernmost corner of the Lutheran communion 

(LWI) - At just 29 years old, Thuridur Björg Wiium Arnadottir is one of the youngest Lutheran pastors, serving in one of the most rural and…

LWF President Musa addresses ELCA Churchwide Assembly

(LWI) - In times characterized by fragmentation, withdrawal and “a dramatic shift” of shared values, the church needs “to embrace fully” both its local and global witness. The Lutheran…