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The Lutheran World Federation is a global communion of churches working for justice, peace and reconciliation. An @actalliance member.
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LWF congratulates Bishop-elect Naledzani Sikhwari, who will be the first woman to lead a Lutheran diocese in Southern Africa.
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The LWF Council has elected Estonian Rev. Anne Burghardt as the next LWF General Secretary. She will be the first woman and the first Central Eastern European to hold this leadership position.
#LWFCouncil
#CommunionChurches
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Poland: First women ordained as pastors
The LWF congratulates the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland and the nine women who were ordained as pastors today in the Holy Trinity Church in Warsaw.
@luteranie
Photo:
@atarnogorska
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LWF Congratulates Rev. Sally Azar and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land.
#GenderJustice
@ELCJHL
Photos: LWF/
@albinhillert
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God of peace.
We pray for the people of Ukraine. Give leaders of nations the wisdom to choose peace over conflict and war. Be close to those who fear and comfort them.
Lord, in your mercy.
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LWF celebrates the life and ministry of Desmond Tutu.
"His life was a testament to how our Christian faith can inspire us to work for justice and human dignity. He taught us what it means to truly advocate and work for reconciliation,” said LWF General Secretary Burghardt.
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“May your voice continue to be raised on behalf of the most vulnerable.” Read a pastoral letter from LWF, WCC, WCRC and WMC to the churches and people of Zimbabwe.
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Election of LWF General Secretary
Rev. Anne Burghardt from Estonia and Rev. Dr Kenneth Mtata are the two candidates for the position of LWF general secretary. The election will take place at the LWF Council on 19 June.
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LWF Council Member for Asia, Sally Azar is set to be the first woman ordained in her home church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land on 22 January.
#WomensOrdination
@LWFAsia
@ELCJHL
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On this day in the year 1522, Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament was published.
#Reformation500
#BibleYear
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"If we don't stand with them, who will?" Lutheran church leaders from Asia, Africa, Europe and America explain the biblical command and calling to support refugees.
#WRD2019
#WithRefugees
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As we celebrate Easter and the resurrection of Jesus, we grieve with the victims of terror attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka.
#SriLanka
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On this day in 1906, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born.
#LutheranTheologians
#LWFTheology
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LWF issues statement expressing grave concern over the escalation of the conflict in Syria.
#JusticePeaceReconciliation
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Israel-Palestine: Renewed call for lasting solution
At its Council meeting this week, LWF urged the international community to “redouble its efforts toward finding a lasting solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
#LWFCouncil
#IsraelPalestine
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On the first Sunday in Lent, we reflect on God's loving presence. Through these 40 days and forevermore, take heart. You are not alone. God sees you, beloved, and remembers.
#LWFLent
#PrayingCommunion
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Rev Naledzani Sikhwari was consecrated Bishop of the Northern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa on Pentecost. She is the first woman to hold the office of bishop in the Lutheran church in South Africa.
#Memberchurches
@LUCSA_91
📷 David Mang'enda
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Archbishop Musa Panti Filibus is the new President of the Lutheran World Federation.
#lwfassembly
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Danish Bishop Henrik Stubkjær has been elected as the new president of the Lutheran World Federation to guide the global communion of churches over the coming years.
#LWFAssembly
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On the fifth Sunday in Lent, we reflect on the call to sow seeds of hope as a promise of God’s love.
#LWFLent
#PrayingCommunion
📷 LWF/I. J. Benesch
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Today we remember German pastor and theologian Dietrich
#Bonhoeffer
who died on this day 75 years ago in the Flossenbürg concentration camp.
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.
@GretaThunberg
at
#COP25
today: "My story is already well known, so we are lending our voices today to others, whose stories need to be heard." A clear reminder that
#ClimateJustice
is a matter of intergenerational justice.
#CreationNotForSale
@LWFyouth
📸LWF/
@albinhillert
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Doctors and nurses from the LWF’s Augusta Victoria Hospital have arrived in
#Gaza
and are tending to wounded people. We send our prayers and best wishes that they may bring comfort and relief to the injured.
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@ELCJHL
@albinhillert
Rev. Azar is the first Palestinian woman ordained to serve as a pastor in the Holy Land. Her ordination took place in the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem today.
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Today Rev. Sani Ibrahim Charlie Azar was consecrated bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. Congratulations and blessings for the ministry. Photo: Ben Gray / ELCJHL
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LWF General Secretary Anne Burghardt leads a delegation of young Lutherans at Saturday's Vatican prayer vigil organized by the Taizé community
#Together
#ecumenism
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"God does not need your works, but your neighbor does." On this day in 1483 Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany.
#Reformation501
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Elizabeth Eaton, Presiding Bishop of the
@ELCA
, joins religious leaders all over the world speaking up against gender-based violence.
#PreciousInGodsEyes
#16days
#endGBV
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Austrian
#Lutheran
pastor Norman Tendis was among victims of fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash. “On behalf of the LWF, my heart goes out to the family of Pastor Norman Tendis, the entire church in which he ministered.” LWF Gen Sec Junge
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"Our being Christian today will consist in only two things: in praying and in doing justice among people." Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4. February 1906 - 9. April 1945)
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Reformation Day is 31 October.
"I must still read and study the catechism daily, and yet I cannot master it as I wish, but must remain a child and pupil of the catechism — and I also do so gladly."
Martin Luther: Preface to the Large Catechism
#Reformation
#ReformationDay
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LWF thanks Archbishop Dr Antje Jackélen for her leadership in the Church of Sweden, as she retires from her role as Archbishop today.
@svenskakyrkan
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Tonight, we grieve over invaluable loss as the Notre Dame cathedral burns. We pray for all for whom Notre Dame is and represents their spiritual home. We take comfort in the words of Isaiah 40:31
#NotreDame
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On this day in 1945, German Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was killed.
#LutheranTheologians
#LWFTheology
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“Every donation counts,” General Secretary Burghardt says in call for donations to assist churches and people of
#Ukraine
.
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LWF General Secretary Anne Burghardt joins
@pontifex
, Archbishop of Canterbury
@JustinWelby
, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with many other Christian leaders for a prayer vigil in St Peter's Square
📸 CatholicPressPhoto/A. Giuliani
#Together
#LWFAssembly
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Gaza is on the brink of disaster. In a statement released on 6 November, the LWF calls for an immediate ceasefire to enable humanitarian aid, the opening of humanitarian corridors, and adherence to International Humanitarian Law by all parties.
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"We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it." Martin Luther
#LutherQuotes
#OngoingReformation
#ReformationDay
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We pray together.
Gathered in one voice from many places, we are united in the prayer that Jesus taught us.
#LordsPrayer
#OurFather
#COVID19
#PrayAtHome
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Today: An ecumenical worship in Wittenberg, Germany, with Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists and Reformed.
#Reformation500
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Churches are calling for climate justice –
@ACTAlliance
and
@lutheranworld
and
@Oikoumene
together in New York.
#ClimateJustice
#CreationNotForSale
📸ACT/Joanna Patouris
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Full house at the Lutheran confessional meeting at the WCC Assembly tonight, sharing joys and challenges from the many contexts of the churches. Reflecting .
#WCCassembly
@Oikoumene
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Today we commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in an ecumenical service at the Cathedral Saint Pierre in Geneva.
#JDDJ
#ChristianUnity
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LWF General Secretary, Rev. Dr Martin Junge, has been awarded the Augsburg Peace Prize
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We remember today, the birthday of Katharina von Bora (29.01.1499), and give thanks for her life. The history of reformation wouldn't be what it is today, without the "herstories" of innumerable women who helped shape it.
#KatharinavonBora
#Lutheran
#happybirthday
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#MaundyThursday
Bishop Hanson, former LWF president, washes the feet of HIV positive women on the eve of AIDS conference in 2008
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On 4 November 1520 Martin Luther published "On the Freedom of a Christian" to describe how God's love is a radical gift and a call to service.
#ReformationDay
#MartinLuther
#CalledToServe
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We join our sisters and brothers in Zimbabwe in prayer during a time of unrest.
We pray for peace, we pray that human dignity is respected, we pray for dialogue.
May God grant wisdom that leads to healing, reconciliation and peace.
Amen.
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LWF Christmas message: thank God that what unites Christians is more powerful than what divides them.
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LWF’s new general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt is welcomed during her installation service in Geneva’s Ecumenical Center
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Congratulations to our colleague Rev Dr Kaisamari Hintikka! The
#LWF
assistant general secretary has been elected bishop of the
@Espoonhpk
(Diocese of Espoo) in
#Finland
.
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International Women’s Day: LWF General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt calls upon leaders worldwide to "guarantee the rights and uphold the dignity of all women and children who have had to flee their homes and countries in search of safety.”
#IWD2022
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Pray for peace with justice to be established so that no more blood is shed on the Holy Land.
#Justice
#Peace
#Reconciliation
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On this feast of
#Pentecost
, we pray: Come Holy Spirit! Kindle in us the fire of your love!
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“We congratulate you wholeheartedly for this well-deserved recognition” write LWF President Musa and LWF General Secretary Junge to Nobel Peace Prize winner
@DenisMukwege
#NobelPeacePrize
#GenderJusticeMatters
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Church leaders and ecumenical guests from around the globe gathered for a moment of prayer in the Ascension church on the Mount of Olives.
Many of them have traveled to Jerusalem for ordination of Sally Azar on Sunday 22 January.
Photos: LWF/
@albinhillert
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Ukrainian Lutherans call on churches in Europe to shelter refugees, advocate against the war, and offer support for basic and medical necessities.
Read the interview with Bishop Pavlo Shvarts.
#StandWithUkraine
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Congratulations Rev. Elitha Moyo of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, winner of People's Choice Women Changing the World award for
#GenderEquality
@LWFAdvocacy
@ELCAAdvocacy
#LWFWomen
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"Here we stand!" - In August 2017 over 120 women pastors from 18 countries sent a strong signal during the
#Reformation
celebrations in Wittenberg, Germany.
#yearinreview
#WICAS
#Women
#GenderJustice
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On Reformation Day we remember Martin Luther’s words about the Bible:
“The Holy Scriptures require a humble reader who shows reverence and fear toward the Word of God and constantly says, ‘Teach me, teach me, teach me!’”
#SolaScriptura
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Rev. Charlotte Frycklund, the first priest in the Church of Sweden with the world wide web as a parish.
#CommunionVoices
@svenskakyrkan
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LWF warmly welcomes the new World Council of Churches General Secretary Prof. Jerry Pillay at his installation today in Geneva.
@oikoumene
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On Sunday 26 September the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi (ELCM) will ordain Rev. Bertha Godfrey Munkhondya, who will become the first woman ordained into the word and sacrament ministry at the ELCM.
Photo: David Mang'enda/ALCINET
#MemberChurches
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Ecumenical service in Glasgow: ‘a great feeling of being part of an international community, that everyone is here to take care of Creation, for a better life for all living beings’ — LWF
#Cop26
youth Natan, Brazil.
#CreationNotForSale
#LWFforClimateJustice
📸
@albinhillert
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Four global Christian communions condemn Russian action in Ukraine and issue invitation to prayer for peace in the region
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Vibrant and beautiful worship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe.
LWF General Secretary Martin Junge preached, local choirs sang beautifully, and young people from the church offered powerful testimony to a society of peace.
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Our
#lwfadvent
calendar video takes us today to Church of Sweden, and the boys' and girls' choirs of Uppsala Cathedral singing "Nu tändas tusen juleljus" (A Thousand Christmas Candles).
@udg_se
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The Lutheran World Federation congratulates Rev. Wilma Rommel who was elected President of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Argentina and Uruguay on 24 April. Rommel is the first woman to hold that office.
@IELUnoticias
#MemberChurches
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A historic visit
@POTUS
on his tour of the Middle East also visited the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East
#Jerusalem
today, announcing USD 100 million in assistance to the East Jerusalem Hospital Network.
@elcjhl
#POTUSvisitAVH
@ELCA
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Sadly this list continues to grow. We
#PrayForNice
, but also we
#PrayForWorld
and we
#PrayForAllVictimsOfTerrorism
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As
#Church
of Norway appoints its new presiding bishop, the
#LWF
thanks
@OlavTveit
for leadership of global
#ecumenical
movement
@Oikoumene
#WCC
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Good morning! We are live from the ICE Congress Center in Krakow for the 13th
#LWFAssembly
!
Join us for opening worship at 9am GMT+2:
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We are live for
#Reformation
day, follow worships from member churches across the globe.
#ReformationDayLive
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Yesterday LWF General Secretary Anne Burghardt met with lawmakers and partners of the LWF in Washington, including representatives of USAID and aides to senators Susan Collins and Patty Murray.
@ELCA
@LWFAdvocacy
@USAID
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ELCA Bishop Patricia Davenport says the church must combat racism at the grassroots and help rebuild relationships between communities.
#BlackLivesMatter
@ELCA
@ELCABishopEaton
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Join Lutherans from across the world to witness how the
#Reformation
has become a global citizen
#ReformationDayLive
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Our
#LWFAdvent
calendar takes us to Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark performing "Dejlig er Jorden" ("Beautiful is the Earth").
#LWFAdvent
Full video:
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Church of Sweden delivers public apology for its role in “legitimized repression” and centuries of “mistreatment and complacency” toward the Sámi People.
#MemberChurches
#Indigenous
@svenskakyrkan
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#LWF
Vice president
@ELCABishopEaton
explains why she stands
#WithRefugees
on
#WorldRefugeeDay
.
#EveryActionCounts
#LWFwithRefugees
@elca
@LWFAsia
@LWF_Ke
@LwfSouth
@LWF_Uganda
@CanLWR
@actalliance
@landesbischof
@svenskakyrkan
@Refugees
@KirkensNodhjelp
@BROT_furdiewelt
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Archbishop Musa Panti Filibus, President of the Lutheran World Federation, joins religious leaders all over the world taking a pledge against gender-based violence.
#PreciousInGodsEyes
#16days
#EndGBV
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LWF condemns strongly the strike on the al-Ahli Anglican hospital in Gaza. Targeting civilians is entirely unacceptable.
The strike is believed to have killed hundreds of patients, medical staff, and civilians.
International humanitarian law must be respected and the safety of
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10,000 people expected in Windhoek, Namibia for the Global Commemoration of the Reformation
#lwfassembly
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LWF's Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Relations Prof. Dirk Lange leads a Lutheran delegation at an international symposium in Rome on
#synodality
within different Christian traditions
@Synod_va
@oikoumene
#ChristianUnity
#UtUnumSint
📸 CPP/Alessia Giuliani
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Encouraging talks to follow up on the Anglican affirmation of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. Today LWF General Secretary Martin Junge and Archbishop of Canterbury
@JustinWelby
met in Bossey, Switzerland. Photo Peter Williams/WCC.
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#lwfchurches
New
@elca
bishops are visiting the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
@elcjhl
. Bishops Patricia Davenport, Laurie Skow-Anderson, and Jeffrey Clements met with Bishop Ibrahim Azar.
#HolyLand
#Lutheran
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LWF General Secretary Martin Junge:
"The pictures we have seen this week of a Bible wielded as a symbol of power were deeply disturbing and embarrassing. A weaponized Bible, abused as an instrument of domination, degrades Scripture."
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