‘Out into the world, to give our fruits to others’
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‘Out into the world, to give our fruits to others’

Lydia Posselt is pastor of Family of God Lutheran Church in Buckingham, Pa. The following press release is from The Lutheran World Federation. “I belong to Christ, and you belong…

Climate justice advocate Kopp speaks to LWF Assembly on “Creation – not for sale”
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Climate justice advocate Kopp speaks to LWF Assembly on “Creation – not for sale”

In his keynote address to The Lutheran World Federation Twelfth Assembly, climate justice advocate Martin Kopp told those gathered, “Our societies and life on earth are risking collapse.” The following press…

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Salvation should not be marketed

The following press release is from The Lutheran World Federation “The idolatry of mammon has hijacked the world and this is only a part of the wider blasphemy by which…

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LWF total income has nearly doubled to almost EUR 780 million

Christina Jackson-Skelton, executive director for ELCA Mission Advancement is The Lutheran World Federation finance committee chairperson. She presented her report to the Twelfth Assembly May 11. The following press release is from The Lutheran World Federation.  WINDHOEK,…

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The Reformation anniversary is a milestone, not the endpoint for mission

The Lutheran World Federation has issued the following news release. WINDHOEK, Namibia, 11 May 2017 (LWI) – The 74 million-member global Lutheran communion marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation…

ELCA delegation attends 12th Assembly of The Lutheran World Federation
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ELCA delegation attends 12th Assembly of The Lutheran World Federation

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton and a delegation from the ELCA have joined Lutherans from around the globe for the 12th Assembly of The…

Harvesting hope
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Harvesting hope

Each season, Zulema Lopez sows and reaps crops in the village of San Luis, near Somoto in northern Nicaragua. But after years of prolonged drought, wells have run dry and…

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Earth Day series: Climate change and the poor

In Zimbabwe, the Mwenezi River has overflowed twice in the last two months. Before this year, the Mwenezi had only flooded three times in the last half century. “On all…

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Earth Day series: Climate change, migration and the ELCA

Shishmaref is a fishing village in Alaska that is on an island only 3 miles long and a quarter-mile wide in the Chuckchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait….

National Council of Churches sends Holy Week greeting, mourns violence in Syria and Egypt
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National Council of Churches sends Holy Week greeting, mourns violence in Syria and Egypt

The statement below was released by the National Council of Churches, of which the ELCA is a member. Christ is Risen from the dead! Trampling down death by death, And upon…