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USA: Keeper of the words for yesterday and today

Voices from the Communion: Deacon Sue Rothmeyer

USA: Keeper of the words for yesterday and today

24 April 2020

Voices from the Communion: Deacon Sue Rothmeyer (LWI) - Deacon Sue Rothmeyer, Secretary for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), recounts how sometimes secretary sounds like it is all about rules, regulations and documents. She doesn’t deny ...

On the way to COP24 in Poland

20 November 2018

Youth delegate Helena Funk visits UN Church Center and GreenFaith in New York

ELCA Bishops stand with youth in addressing gun violence and school safety

9 March 2018

Solidarity with children and youth who “March for our Lives”

Empowering young people to train LWF Peace Messengers

12 February 2018

New manual enables participants to conduct training in local context (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has released a Peace Messenger training manual. A first draft was developed last year and used in September 2017 with young people of Muslim and ...

Reviving, rethinking, renewing faith

23 June 2017

Young Reformers in the United States bring youth voices to congregations (LWI) - Young Reformers in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are working to let the voices of youth and young adults be heard in Lutheran congregations across the United ...

Our chance to shape the future of our planet

9 February 2017

LWF Youth Secretary, Caroline Bader, and LWF Council member/Director ELCA World Hunger, Mikka McCracken, examine the ways in which LWF youth can shape the Sustainable Development Goals

The green gavel and the pens

18 April 2016

“With a small hammer, you can achieve great things”, stated French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius at the closing of the 21st United Nations (UN) climate change conference COP21 on 12 December 2015 in Paris.

Young American Lutherans step into the shoes of refugees

24 July 2015

Simulated refugee experience “life changing” DETROIT, United States/GENEVA, 23 July 2015 (LWI) - One minute they were ordinary American young people, the next they were forced to make life-changing decisions as refugees in a simulation exercise. Among ...

A Spiritual Message of Hope for Climate Justice

24 September 2014

LWF Representative Kwon Offers Highlights from New York Climate Change Summits(LWI) – While the recent Interfaith Summit on Climate Change emphasized politicians’ urgent responsibility in taking action to limit global warming, it also challenged religious ...

‘Here We March, We can do no other’

22 September 2014

(LWI) – The historic “People’s Climate March” on 21 September in New York, was a successful and unique event that also affirmed the important contribution of faith organization to the struggle for society’s common good, says Mr Martin Kopp, The Lutheran ...

LWF to Participate in New York Interfaith Summit on Climate Change

19 September 2014

Lutheran Delegates Host Fast at UN Summit Parallel Event(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) continues its advocacy on climate change as “an urgent matter of social and economic justice” with events around the United Nations Climate Summit on ...