The Lutheran World Federation has elected the first woman to head its global communion of churches. Anne Burghardt, an Estonian theologian, was chosen on June 19 by the LWF Council as the next general ...

The Lutheran World Federation has elected the first woman to head its global communion of churches. The Rev. Anne Burghardt, an Estonian theologian, was chosen June 19 by the LWF Council as the next ...

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council has elected Estonian theologian Rev. Anne Burghardt as the next General Secretary of the global communion of Lutheran churches. The 45-year-old Burghardt is ...

The host bishop at a global Lutheran conference in Tanzania raised the thorny issue of homosexuality in his sermon opening the meeting of the main governing body of the 68-million-strong Lutheran ...

GENEVA (RNS/ENI) Lutheran World Federation leaders plan to apologize for their ancestors’ 16th-century persecution of Anabaptists, religious reformers whose successors include Mennonites and the Amish ...

Pastor Brian Wise of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Naperville, IL was recently elected to serve on the Interfaith Forum for the Action of Justice Team within the Lutheran World Federation. Pastor ...

Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, president of the Lutheran World Federation, Pope Francis and Rev. Martin Junge, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, attend an ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at the assembly of the Lutheran World Federation, the Vatican's chief ecumenist and the federation's general secretary formally called for a joint reflection on the ...

Lutheran World Federation assembles in Namibia for 500th anniversary of Martin Luther. Hundreds of Lutherans gathered this week for a global commemoration of the Reformation. But they didn’t do it in ...