http://www.elca.org/news Official news releases of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 2010-02-09T10:04:10 WASHINGTON (ELCA) -- The Feeding America network reported an increase in the number of clients who came to their emergency food program sites, according to a recent "Hunger in America 2010" study. The network is a nationwide group of food pantries, community kitchens and shelters. Sponsors of these groups are primarily faith-based or religiously-affiliated programs. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4443 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 o... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4443 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4443 2010-02-08T17:06:41 *** Please note corrected text in this story, replacing references to Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue in the United States with the international Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue through the Lutheran World Federation. John R. Brooks Director, ELCA News Service Chicago ISTANBUL, Turkey (ELCA) -- His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, world Orthodox leader, said that official international theological dialogue with the Lutheran World Federation will continue. He made the comm... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4442 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4442 2010-02-08T15:30:48 HEYBELIADA ISLAND, Turkey (ELCA) -- They wait faithfully and hope. Two Orthodox leaders, Metropolitan Apostolos, abbot, and Father Dorotheos, maintain the Holy Monastery and Theological School at Halki, waiting for the day when students will be allowed to resume seminary studies here. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4441 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://twitter.com/elcanews... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4441 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4441 2010-02-08T14:53:42 LONDON (ELCA) -- An official delegation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met with officials of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion, discussing matters such as a proposed "Anglican Covenant," global Lutheran-Anglican relationships and a breakaway Anglican church in the United States. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4440 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: h... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4440 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4440 2010-02-07T17:35:32 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Youth Gathering of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will return to New Orleans in 2012. Returning to a host city consecutively is unprecedented in the history of ELCA Youth Gatherings, according to Heidi Hagstrom, director for youth gatherings, ELCA Vocation and Education. The gathering will take place July 18-22, 2012. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4439 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@e... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4439 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4439 2010-02-04T17:11:23 LONDON (ELCA) -- The Rev. Mark S. Hanson met with Dr. Rowan D. Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in a private hour-long meeting Feb. 4 at Lambeth Palace here. After the meeting Hanson said the two discussed strengthening Anglican-Lutheran relationships, challenges each leader faces within his own communions, the proposed "Anglican Covenant" to deepen internal church relationships, global environmental issues, Christian-Muslim relationships, and mutual concern for conflicts in pla... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4438 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4438 2010-02-04T15:01:02 LONDON (ELCA) -- The Rev. Timothy Dearhamer describes the congregation he serves here "as an example of what the Lutheran Church aspires to be -- multicultural and multiracial." Dearhamer, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) pastor from Oklahoma, said regular worshipers at St. Anne's Lutheran Church include more than 30 nationalities, not unusual for Lutheran congregations in Great Britain. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4437 For information contact: ... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4437 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4437 2010-02-04T13:51:24 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. H. Julian Gordy, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Southeastern Synod, Atlanta, will preach Feb. 14 on "Day 1," a nationally broadcast radio program. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4436 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://twitter.com/elcanews ... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4436 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4436 2010-02-04T11:24:54 WASHINGTON (ELCA) -- More than 700 people of faith from across the country are expected to discuss migration issues and visit Capitol Hill for the eighth annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days for Global Peace with Justice Conference, March 19-22. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4435 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://twitter.com/elcanews ... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4435 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4435 2010-02-03T16:23:54 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- A service of "song and prayer" for Benjamin Judd Larson will be held Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, Decorah, Iowa. Immediately following the service Larson, 25, will be buried in Phelps Cemetery, Decorah. Larson, a seminary student of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), was killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4434 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4434 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4434 2010-02-02T16:47:06 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Robert S. Wilch, president of the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Synod of the former Lutheran Church in America (LCA), died Jan. 29 of complications from heart surgery. He was 86. The LCA is a predecessor church body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4433 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/elc... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4433 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4433 2010-02-02T11:16:46 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Lutherans in southern Africa and staff of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jan. 11-15, to plan efforts to help prevent and control malaria, and to discuss building organizational capacity to meet the challenge. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4432 Information about the Lutheran Malaria Initiative is at http://www.ELCA.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Responding-to-the-World/lutheran-malaria-initiative.... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4432 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4432 2010-02-01T20:46:51 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Northeastern Iowa Synod Council voted this past weekend to rescind two resolutions it adopted in November in response to the sexuality decisions of the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. The council rescinded the resolutions decisively "after extensive and open conversation," wrote Susan Armstrong, Mason City, Iowa, synod vice president, in a Feb. 1 letter to the synod. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4431 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4431 2010-01-30T17:28:37 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Gifts by congregations and members sent to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) for response to the earthquake in Haiti total more than $2.7 million through Jan. 29, according to ELCA Treasurer Christina Jackson-Skelton. Nearly 16,000 individual gifts have been sent to the ELCA, she said. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4430 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twit... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4430 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4430 2010-01-30T15:17:13 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Staff of the Caribbean-American Family Health Center, one of several satellite clinics of Lutheran HealthCare, Brooklyn, N.Y., are preparing to provide treatment for patients arriving in the United States from Haiti -- while at the same time caring for their own professional staff whose family members are either missing or have died there. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4429 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4429 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4429 2010-01-29T15:35:43 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The State of Florida has enlisted the help of Lutherans to receive Haitians with U.S. passports and accompany injured Haitians entering the United States from earthquake-ravaged Haiti. More http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4428 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/elcanews ... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4428 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4428 2010-01-29T13:24:53 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- An official Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) delegation of clergy and lay leaders will travel through Europe Feb. 3-17, visiting world Christian church leaders and key staff based in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva. The 2010 Ecumenical Journey, led by the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), is part of the church's declaration of ecumenical commitment, adopted by the 1991 ELCA Churchwide Ass... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4427 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4427 2010-01-29T12:06:38 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- A Kansas jury convicted Scott Roeder of first- degree murder Jan. 29. Roeder gunned down Dr. George Tiller, a member of Reformation Lutheran Church, Wichita, Kan., in the church foyer before Sunday service May 31. Tiller was one of few physicians in the United States who performed late-term abortions and was often targeted by anti- abortion protests. Reformation is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). More: http://www.elca.org/... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4426 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4426 2010-01-29T10:20:28 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Two professors and 21 students from Gustavus Adolphus College stranded in Machu Picchu, Peru, were airlifted Jan. 28 to the nearby city of Cusco. The group was among an estimated 2,500 tourists in Machu Picchu waiting to be evacuated, after heavy rains and floods produced mudslides there. Gustavus Adolphus, St. Peter, Minn., is one of 27 colleges and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4425 ... http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4425 http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4425 2010-01-28T22:10:07 CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The body of Benjamin Judd Larson, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) seminary student who died in the Haiti earthquake, was recovered Jan. 28. Larson, who was teaching theology to Lutherans in Haiti at the time of the disaster, was buried when the building he was in collapsed. 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