Category - lutheran

We can learn from Luther too, says top Cardinal

Ecumenical News International — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:35:53 +0100

Roman Catholics can learn from Protestant reformer Martin Luther, the Vatican's top official for Christian unity, has said, as many churches in Germany prepare to launch a 10-year series of events for his 500th anniversary.

Swedish Lutherans celebrate 50 years of ordaining women

Ecumenical News International — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:28:28 +0100

The Lutheran Church of Sweden will today mark the 50th anniversary of its decision in 1958 to ordain women as priests, and cathedrals in all of the church's 13 dioceses are to hold services to celebrate the anniversary.

Preparations underway for interfaith climate summit in Sweden

Ecumenical News International — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:56:32 +0100

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and author Peter Matthiessen are among those who have said they will attend an interfaith climate summit being organized by the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden in Uppsala in November 2008.

Christians in Palestine-Israel under pressure, but not bowed

Ecumenical News International — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:27:27 +0100

A leading regional church figure says Christians in Palestine-Israel are living in a difficult situation, with some cases of Muslim-Christian tension. But talk of 'persecution' is exaggerated and the real task is to combat injustice.

Jerusalem bishop laments return to cycles of violence in Israel Palestine

Ecumenical News International — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:15:18 +0000

The vicious circle of violence which tormented Israel and Palestine for years has returned, says Jerusalem Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan, following the shooting attack on a Jewish seminary. Blood will not save the Holy Land, he says.

Church and media need new understanding, says Lutheran bishop

Stephen Brown — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:07:13 +0000

Church leaders and journalists have little idea of the pressures that each other face, according to German Lutheran Bishop Margot Kässmann, who has called for a new understanding.

Make peace not division, say Jerusalem church heads

staff writers — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:16:56 +0000

The compassionate actions of human beings, not their claims against each other, reflect the will of God and the transforming power of Jesus the Prince of Peace, say the heads of the churches in Jerusalem this Christmastide.

Commemoration remembers millions of Africans who died as slaves

agency reporter — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:46:56 +0000

An ecumenical Christian commemoration of the millions of Africans who died in the barbaric cruelty of the transatlantic slave trade is also highlighting the continuing oppression of their descendants around the world.

US Lutherans back tough anti-child trafficking measures

staff writers — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:47:31 +0000

Lutherans and other churches have been urging a US House of Representatives Committee to expedite the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2007 (TVPRA), to help identify and protect child victims of trafficking.

Mennonites take significant steps forward in ecumenical relations

staff writers — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:29:43 +0100

The Mennonite Church USA has taken two significant steps forward in inter-church relations by joining an American-wide ecumenical body and receiving an official apology from Evangelical Lutherans for past persecutions of Anabaptists.