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China’s Methodical Crackdown on the Church of Almighty God: A Record Year of Persecution
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The Church of Almighty God (CAG) released its 2026 annual persecution report on February 13, documenting the most severe year of state repression since the organization began systematic record-keeping in…
![[Press Release] South Asia: Walking and growing together as a global communion](https://i1.wp.com/lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/2026-02/Lutheran%20Identity%20Workshop%20held%20in%20Kathmandu%2C%20Nepal.jpg?w=768&resize=768,0&ssl=1 "[Press Release] South Asia: Walking and growing together as a global communion")
Christianity
The 45 participants represented LWF member churches in the South Asia sub-region: NELC, and two churches in India that joined the LWF in 2025: the Bodo Evangelical Lutheran Church (BELC)...
![[Press Release] Indonesian churches welcome landmark environmental decision](https://i0.wp.com/lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/2026-02/HKBP%20Indonesia_Rev%20Deonal%20Sinaga.jpg?w=768&resize=768,0&ssl=1 "[Press Release] Indonesian churches welcome landmark environmental decision")
Christianity
On 20 January, two months after a rare tropical cyclone left more than 1,000 people dead and over 175,000 houses destroyed, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto declared that the giant pulp...
![[Press Release] LWF launches 2026 Lent series “Closer – on the way to the cross”](https://i3.wp.com/lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/2026-02/Lent%20series%202026_PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191202_AH2_7174.jpg?w=768&resize=768,0&ssl=1 "[Press Release] LWF launches 2026 Lent series “Closer – on the way to the cross”")
Christianity
“Lent invites proximity — with God, with ourselves, and with realities we would rather avoid: our own complicity, strangers at the border, the suffering of the earth, systemic injustices, and...
![[Press Release] In Lenten letter, Burghardt urges churches to stand against indifference](https://i1.wp.com/lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/20250305-anneburghardt.jpg?w=768&resize=768,0&ssl=1 "[Press Release] In Lenten letter, Burghardt urges churches to stand against indifference")
Christianity
Through all of this runs an essential question posed to churches and Christians during Lent: what does it mean to walk toward the cross in this particular moment? Burghardt's advice...
Christianity
On February 18, the Orthodox Church honors one of the brightest defenders of Christianity – Saint Leo, Pope of Rome, synonymous with unwavering faith and spiritual power that changed history....
News
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints welcomed the Bahrain Ambassador to the United States to Church...
Events
Humanists International will unveil the latest edition of its global benchmark on the treatment of humanists, atheists and the non-religious at a hybrid event in the EU quarter. On Wednesday,...
News
“There’s a mix of trepidation and joy, two feelings that don’t usually coincide,” said Elder Clark G. Gilbert, the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, as he...
![[Press Release] Uruguay: a bridge between art, faith and society](https://i0.wp.com/lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2026-02/Uruguay_Voices_DSC_5504.JPG.webp?h=f0b3a7f8&itok=6JO57MA9&w=768&resize=768,0&ssl=1 "[Press Release] Uruguay: a bridge between art, faith and society")
Christianity
How is this connection between music and faith achieved in such a secular context? It is only in churches in Uruguay that you can hear organ concerts, which is already...
