GERMANY: FENDING OFF THE RISING RIGHT, BAVARIAN LEADER PUTS CROSSES IN STATE OFFICES
TOM HENEGAN, of Religion News Service, reports on the controversy surrounding moves in the German state of Bavaria to install crosses on all government buildings…
In historic votes, US Lutherans elect two African-American women bishops
RNS Rev Patricia A Davenport speaks after being elected bishop of the ELCA Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod during its assembly at Franconia Mennonite Church in Telford, Pennsylvania, on 5th May. PICTURE: Via SEPAsynod video A synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America made history Saturday by electing the denomination’s first female African-American bishop. One day […]
Bishop Munib Younan awarded 34th Niwano Peace Prize for work encouraging inter-religious dialogue
Bishop Munib Younan, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, has been awarded the Niwano Peace Prize for his work toward interreligious dialogue among Christians, Muslims and Jews, both in Jerusalem and worldwide. The prize is awarded each year by the The Niwano Peace Foundation of Japan in recognition of an individual […]
Lutherans gather in Namibia for 12th global assembly under the theme of ‘Liberated by God’s Grace’
Lutheran World Federation president Bishop Munib Younan from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land at the assembly. PICTURE: LWF/Albin Hillert. Lutherans from across the world have gathered in Windhoek, Namibia, this week for the 12th Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation. Almost 800 people from some 145 member churches around the […]