Bishop Munib A. Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) has been elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) by the church body\'s highest legislative body.
The 11th Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation approved a statement on Thursday calling on Lutherans to express their regret and sorrow for past actions against Anabaptists and asking for forgiveness.
The general secretary of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands has been selected to serve as the next general secretary of the Council for World Mission.
The head of the Salvation Army Women\'s Ministries urged more than 1,000 young Salvationists over the weekend to join the fight against human trafficking and reminded them to join in the upcoming day of prayer for victims of the sex-slave trade.
Over 400 delegates from Lutheran churches around the world have convened in Stuttgart, Germany, for the 11th Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation.
A former Lutheran college president who has served as interim president at three other Lutheran colleges since his retirement in 1998 will serve at another college, according to an announcement Monday.
For the first time in 43 years, the YMCA has unveiled a new brand strategy that includes a new logo and a new label - "the Y."
Christians across the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico this year opened their homes for meetings and witnessed a combined total of 69,188 make commitments to Jesus Christ, reported the ministry behind the evangelism outreach.
Nine conservative Anglican churches that have been wrestling for three years with The Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia over disputed church property has asked Virginia\'s Supreme Court to reconsider a narrow, but critical portion of its ruling last month.
Seven in 10 Christian households say they actively pay off their credit cards in full every month and nearly 8 of 10 Christian households say they continue to give ten percent or more of their income to local churches and ministries.