Refugees speak about the importance of education for girls
“Education is light, ignorance is darkness,” says Fatuma Aden Siyad. If this would be be applied literally, the young woman from Somalia lived in darkness for the first eleven…
Recognition for contribution to Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
(LWI) - Lutheran ecumenist Prof. Theodor Dieter will receive the 2017 Ratzinger Prize on 18 November. The director of the LWF Institute for Ecumenical…
Rev. Dr. Martin Junge, General Secretary of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), was today awarded the Augsburg Peace Prize for 2017 in Augsburg, Germany. Speaking at the…
Kazakhstan Lutherans have first locally built church, thanks to ‘Good Samaritans’
(LWI) – The dedication of the first locally built Lutheran church in 150 years in Kazakhstan is historic, not only because the once persecuted flock has a…
Lutheran identity seminar on the church in the public space
(LWI) - Stand up against oppressive systems in church and society – the “Goliaths in our midst” – Asian church leaders were urged as they gathered in Hong Kong to consider the…
Young Reformers turn attention to deforestation in Congo
(LWI) - For Cedrick Yumba Kitwa, the 500th Reformation anniversary sub-theme “Creation – not for sale,” is a call to turn attention to what is happening in Africa’s largest…
