Category: International News
Praying for the Persecuted Church
CANADA – November 9 marks the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP), an annual event that sees Christians in more than 130 countries remember suffering Christians in prayer. “Today around the world more than 200 million are suffering for their faith in…
Nicaraguan children celebrate Reformation Day
NICARAGUA – October 25th was a day of great joy for the church in Nicaragua as around 200 children and 20 adults gathered at LCC’s mission centre in Chinandega to celebrate the 497th Anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. The theme of the event was taken…
New Nicaraguan Mission Plant in 2015
NICARAGUA – On October 21 Rev. Leonardo Neitzel, Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Executive for Missions and Social Ministry) met in Managua to discuss the creation of a new mission plant. Present for the meetings were Rev. Edmund Auger (LCC’s new regional mission overseer) and Rev. Dr….
Nicaraguan church work students examined in lead-up to ordination, consecrations
NICARAGUA – October 23 marked the second-last set of interviews in Nicaragua for ten vicars (candidates for pastoral ministry) and 17 deaconess-candidates, in the lead-up to their ordinations and consecrations for full-time ministry. Each student was examined individually by Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) and Lutheran Church…
Anglican-Lutheran dialogue continues on Canadian soil
ST. CATHARINES, Ontario – Dialogue participants from the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), and Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) met for their latest semi-annual round of discussions at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in Ontario on Friday, October 17. It was the…
LCC President calls for prayer following Ottawa attacks
OTTAWA – News of multiple shootings in downtown Ottawa left Canadians reeling Wednesday morning. Shots were fired at Canada’s War Memorial, where one Canadian soldier was shot and killed. Parliament was also targeted, with as many as fifty shots fired inside the Centre Block today,…