Category: International News
Lutherans around the world respond to COVID-19
WORLD – As people across the globe struggle with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, confessional Lutherans are reaching out with the comfort of the Gospel as well as practical care. Since April, the International Lutheran Council (ILC) has been chronicling the response of member…
Lutheran Church–Canada Statement Concerning Racism
June 4, 2020 The issue of racism is in many people’s eyes these days as a result of the numerous demonstrations and protests taking place as a result of the tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of law enforcement officers. Racism…
Impact of COVID-19 on Ukrainian and Russian Lutherans
by Oleksiy Navrotskyy UKRAINE – Information on the COVID-19 pandemic, and the quarantine requirements stated by our civil government, have largely been met with skepticism and mistrust by many Christians living in Ukraine. What might appear to be a strange reaction from Ukrainian Christians actually stems…
LCC military chaplain conducts Religious Leader Engagement with ELCL archbishop
RIGA, LATVIA – On February 4, 2020, Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Canadian Armed Forces military chaplain, Lieutenant (Navy) David Jackson conducted a Religious Leader Engagement (RLE) with Archbishop Jānis Vanags of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (ELCL). Meeting with the Lutheran Archbishop of Riga, and…
Berlin pastor highlights plight of Christian converts from Islam in Germany
GERMANY – In late 2019, Rev. Dr. Gottfried Martens, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Berlin, released his annual circular, highlighting systemic discrimination in Germany when deciding the refugee claims of Iranian and Afghan converts to Christianity. “The acceptance rate for Christian refugees is…
Prominent Christian Rapper becomes Lutheran
USA – In January 2020, rapper Flame (Marcus Tyrone Gray) publicly announced he had become a Lutheran. The prominent Christian hip hop artist details his theological journey from Calvinism to Lutheranism in a recently released EP entitled “Extra Nos.” “‘Extra Nos’ discusses my theological journey…
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