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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…
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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…
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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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May 2017 news
ELCA leaders meet with Congress ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton joined more than 100 Lutheran leaders, ELCA members and international partners in Washington, D.C., March 27-29 for the 2017 ELCA…
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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 and hunger
The wide, flat and winding paths through northern Nicaragua look like well-traveled roads for four-wheel-drive vehicles. But upon closer inspection, they’re not paths at all—they’re dried up riverbeds. The Tecomapa…
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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….
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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…
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Earth Day series: How the ELCA is addressing the effects of climate change
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, Living Lutheran is featuring a weekly series of blogs exploring different facets of caring for creation throughout the month of April. In…
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April 2017 news
U.S. joint Reformation observance held In observance of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the ELCA Conference of Bishops’ Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Committee and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’…
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