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The official archive of Lutheran Church – Canada, the underlying districts, and auxiliaries was the Lutheran Historical Institute, Edmonton. It closed in August 2015 after Concordia University of Edmonton and the Alberta British Columbia District of the LCC refused to provide funding.
Both the Nazi and communist regimes persecuted the church harshly before religious freedom returned to Latvia in 1988. In contrast to Estonia, where state atheism reduced the once 80% Lutheran majority to barely 10% by 2011, the Latvian Lutheran church saw its membership drop to around 20% but has recovered and now includes approximately 30% of ...
It is the second largest Lutheran church in the world and the largest Lutheran church in East Africa. [3] [4] The church is led by a presiding bishop and twenty-eight diocesan bishops, representing 28 dioceses. The head office of the church is in Arusha, where it has owned the New Safari Hotel since 1967
Map of Statistical Areas coloured by percentage of people identifying as Lutheran at the 2011 Census. As of 2009, the church had 320 parishes, 540 congregations and 70,000 baptised members in Australia and 1,130 baptised members in New Zealand.
The United Church of Canada (French: Église unie du Canada) is a mainline Protestant denomination [2] that is the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada and the second largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholic Church in Canada.
The Lutheran Hour is a U.S.-based Christian radio program produced by Lutheran Hour Ministries. The weekly broadcast began on October 2, 1930, as an outreach ministry of the Lutheran Laymen's League, part of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). [1] Since 2018, Rev. Dr. Michael Zeigler is the current speaker of The Lutheran Hour. [2]
"The Ministry in the Church" (1981) "Martin Luther - Witness to Jesus Christ" (1983) "Facing Unity. Models, Forms and Phases of Catholic-Lutheran Church Fellowship" (1984) "Church and Justification" (1994) Catholic–Lutheran dialogue in the USA [17] [19] [20] The Status of the Nicene Creed as Dogma of the Church (7 July 1965)
In 1970, Strommen, et al. surveyed 4,745 Lutheran adults between the ages of 15 and 65. They were members of the American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church in America, and Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. 1% stated that they frequently had homosexual intercourse during the past year and 3% stated that they did so occasionally. 90% said that they never had homosexual intercourse during the past ...