Category: International News
International Lutheran organization makes leadership changes
Stronger mutual understandings of doctrine, mission and charity among member churches of the International Lutheran Council (ILC) are some of the challenges identified by Rev. Hans-Jörg Voigt, new chairman of the confessional Lutheran association. Voigt is the bishop of Germany’s Selbständige Evangelisch–Lutherische Kirche (SELK), a…
Australian Lutherans respond to flood disaster; Canadians asked to pray
by Katherina Dueck As record breaking flood conditions continue across Queensland and northern New South Wales, Lutheran Church–Canada president, Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee is asking for the prayers of Lutherans in Canada to “support our fellow Lutherans so far away.” Sections of the Lockyer Valley—located…
Lutherans in Canada rallied behind Haitians in 2010
By Keven Drews ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – It would be an understatement to say 2010 was a bad year for Haiti. An earthquake in January, an outbreak of typhoid fever in April and a cholera epidemic in October and November devastated the small Caribbean nation,…
Outreach conference ideal for snowbirds or winter getaway
If you are heading south over the winter or simply want to escape cold weather for a week, Lutheran Hour Ministries, in cooperation with the local LCMS district, is holding a Regional Outreach Conference (ROC) in the Phoenix, Arizona area. The two-day conference is packed…
Canadian appointed LCMS regional director
As part of the ongoing reorganization in The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), Rev. Ted Krey, a pastor of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) currently serving with LCMS World Missions in the Dominican Republic, will become the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 1, 2011….
Ethiopian Lutheran church calls on ELCA to repent
The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) has warned the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) that its decision to bless homosexual relationships and allow practising homosexuals into the clergy threatens to disrupt long-standing cooperation between the two churches. In a letter addressed to Presiding…
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