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Rev. Zelda Cristina Cossa (left) and Rev. Rosa Minoria Rafael, the second group of women to be ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mozambique, ready to “share the Word, baptize and administer the sacraments to God’s people.” Photo: Salvador Hilário Chame

Rev. Zelda Cristina Cossa (left) and Rev. Rosa Minoria Rafael, the second group of women to be ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mozambique, ready to “share the Word, baptize and administer the sacraments to God’s people.” Photo: Salvador Hilário Chame

Celebrating commitment to women's ordination in Mozambique

Pastors Zelda Cossa and Rosa Rafael speak of new hope and dedication

MAPUTO, Mozambique/GENEVA, 30 June 2017 - Amid worldwide commemorations of 500 years of the Reformation, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mozambique (IELM) recently…

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03 Jul 2017
Rev. Suyapa Ordoñez (left) from the Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras and Rita Flores, Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church, participated in the July 2016 FBOs’ training on women’s human rights, and attended the 64th CEDAW session at the United Nations in Geneva. Photo: LWF/C. Rendón

Rev. Suyapa Ordoñez (left) from the Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras and Rita Flores, Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church, participated in the July 2016 FBOs’ training on women’s human rights, and attended the 64th CEDAW session at the United Nations in Geneva. Photo: LWF/C. Rendón

Strengthening advocacy for women’s human rights

LWF gathers faith-based organizations at training around CEDAW session

(LWI) Delegates from around the world will this week explore strategies that lay and religious leaders and other civil society actors can use to increase the impact of…

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03 Jul 2017
Candidates for ordination and clergy from sister churches and partner organizations of the Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras during the 29th General Assembly, held in Tegucigalpa. Photo: Vera Morales

Candidates for ordination and clergy from sister churches and partner organizations of the Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras during the 29th General Assembly, held in Tegucigalpa. Photo: Vera Morales

Affirming faith and service 

Honduran church assembly endorses human rights’ work

(LWI) - In a country where human rights’ defenders often face persecution, the Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras (ICLH) has adopted “Internal Regulations and Norms for Life in the…

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07 Jul 2017
Rev. José Pilar Álvarez Cabrera, president of the Guatemala Lutheran Church, gives his testimony on human rights' defenders at the advocacy training by faith-based organizations, held at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva. Photo: LWF/Peter Kenny

Rev. José Pilar Álvarez Cabrera, president of the Guatemala Lutheran Church, gives his testimony on human rights' defenders at the advocacy training by faith-based organizations, held at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva. Photo: LWF/Peter Kenny

Protecting human rights’ defenders

Annual training helps to bring local concerns to the global arena

(LWI) – Testimonies by human rights’ defenders are an important component of an annual advocacy training on women’s human rights, organized by faith-based organizations (…

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14 Jul 2017
Training session of FC Okapi, the soccer team currently holding third place in Kakuma premier league. The team trains every weekday afternoon. As they have their own field, they have better training opportunities than the more informal soccer teams. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

Training session of FC Okapi, the soccer team currently holding third place in Kakuma premier league. The team trains every weekday afternoon. As they have their own field, they have better training opportunities than the more informal soccer teams. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

LWF World Service and Young Reformers in Wittenberg

Presence in Heaven’s Tent and youthPointreformation

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) presence in Wittenberg at the World Reformation Exhibition in the last two weeks of July will feature the work of LWF World Service and the Global…

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17 Jul 2017

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