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Vital to maintain momentum towards CSW64
Strengthen efforts for gender justice and women’s empowerment
9 March 2020
Vital to maintain momentum towards CSW64 (LWI) - On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), is urgently calling on the international community, governments and its member churches to step up their work towards gender ...
Men's voices vital in quest for gender justice
6 March 2020
In International Women’s Day message, Lutheran leaders call for stronger, broader commitment to gender equality
Implementing gender justice in Asian contexts
1 October 2019
Women meet in Indonesia ahead of regional church leadership conference (LWI) - Lutheran women from across the Asian region meet together on 3 October in the Indonesian town of Pematang Siantar to discuss ways of overcoming violence and promoting gender justice ...
Kenya moving towards gender equality in church and society
19 July 2019
KELC promotes theological foundations for gender justice  (LWI) - Rev. Catherine Ngina Musau, head of the Gender Justice Program in the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (KELC) says the status of women in her country is improving gradually but there are ...
Bishop Patricia Davenport: Ministry on the front lines
31 May 2019
The first black woman bishop in the ELCA reflects on her church’s work to combat racism and build a ‘beloved community’
First woman pastor president elected to Brazilian church
22 October 2018
IELCB elects Rev. Silvia Beatrice Genz (LWI) The Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB) has elected a woman president for the first time. Rev. Silvia Beatrice Genz will take office in January.
Freedom from violence and full participation
10 May 2017
Women’s Pre-Assembly message to the Twelfth Assembly Freedom from violence and the full participation of women in church and society were the key themes of the message from the Women’s Pre-Assembly of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF). “We celebrate ...
“Claim what is already ours”
9 May 2017
The long way towards women’s ordination in Poland “I cried when I heard the Synod’s decision of April 2016,” recalls Agnieszka Godfrejow-Tarnogorska (44) of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland (ECACP). Her church had just decided ...
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