Category: News

May 15, 2023

German pastor reflects on Christian witness in a dictatorship

by Wilhelm Torgerson GERMANY – At the invitation of the Ursula-Schule, a Roman Catholic High School in the city of Osnabrück in northern Germany, Rev. Hartmut Bartmuss of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) presented on his life and pastoral service under the communist regime…

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March 23, 2023

LCC contributors to Festschrift honouring former ILC Chairman, Bishop Hans-Jörg Voigt

INTERNATIONAL – The International Lutheran Council (ILC) has announced that its former Chairman, Bishop Hans-Jörg Voigt of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche – SELK), was honoured with a Festschrift to mark his 60th birthday. The Festschrift was presented to Bishop Voigt in…

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February 28, 2023

LCC’s Ecumenical Dialogues

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is currently involved in three inter-denominational dialogues: with the Roman Catholic Church in Canada, with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), and with the North American Lutheran Church (NALC). Each of these dialogues meets once or twice a year. …

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February 8, 2023

LCC urges prayer amid earthquake devastation in Turkey and Syria

[Editor’s Note: This article includes numbers from early reports. As of February 9, 2023, CLWR reports that the death toll from this tragedy has risen dramatically to over 20,000 and is climbing by thousands daily.] Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is urging its members to lift up…

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January 5, 2023

Celebrating Christmas in War-Torn Ukraine

UKRAINE – The local Odessa congregation of the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Ukraine (SELCU) welcomed many visitors to worship in its chapel for Christmas. The festival day brought many people to “Christmas markets” in this southern Ukrainian metropolis on the Black Sea, and…

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December 20, 2022

LCC-SELCU Missions during the war in Ukraine

UKRAINE – As of November 24, 2022 the people of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) have raised a total of $649,317.56 for the Ukraine Relief Aid Fund. The following update is provided by Rev. Oleksiy Navrotskyy, LCC’s Missionary-at-Large in the Ukraine concerning our partner church the Synod of…

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