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    • ELCA Church Council Holds Spring Meeting April 17, 2024
      ​CHICAGO — The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) gathered at the Lutheran Center in Chicago, April 11-14. The council, which serves as the ELCA churchwide organization's board of directors and interim legislative authority between meetings of a churchwide assembly, carries out its work in support of the ELCA's priority areas of […]
    • Episcopal, Lutheran partnership focuses on asylum-seeker sponsor training April 11, 2024
      ​CHICAGO — Building on a shared vision for gospel-centered hospitality and inclusion, Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) and AMMPARO, the migrant ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), have entered into a partnership to better train and support asylum-seeker sponsors.Accompanying Migrants with Protection, Advocacy, Representation and Opportunities (AMMPARO) is the ELCA's strategic commitment to […]
    • ELCA Conference of Bishops calls for cease-fire in Gaza / stands in solidarity with migrants March 7, 2024
      ​ITASCA, Ill. (March 7, 2024) — The Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) added its voice to concerns about international and domestic situations during its meeting Feb. 27-March 5 at Eaglewood Resort in Itasca, Ill. The conference is an advisory body of the ELCA that comprises 65 synod bishops, the […]
    • Statement from the ELCA Conference of Bishops in solidarity with migrants in Texas March 4, 2024
      ​"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me" (Matthew 25:35).ITASCA, Ill. - We, the members of the Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), consistent with our church's social teachings, stand in […]
    • ELCA Conference of Bishops calls for permanent bilateral cease-fire in Gaza March 3, 2024
      ​ITASCA, Ill. – The Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is adding its voice to the growing group of faith leaders urgently calling for a permanent bilateral cease-fire in Gaza. We urge President Joe Biden, our legislators, and all who lead and make decisions on behalf of the United States to […]
    • Khader El-Yateem appointed Executive Director for ELCA Service and Justice January 17, 2024
      ​CHICAGO — The Rev. Khader El-Yateem has been appointed executive director of the Service and Justice home area of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). El-Yateem will begin his service March 18."I am excited about Pastor El-Yateem bringing his relationship-building skills to the churchwide organization," said the Rev. Michael Burk, ELCA presiding bishop pro tempore. […]