Lutheran World Relief (LWR), Baltimore, is hosting several one- to two-week “study tours” that enable U.S. Lutherans to travel to developing countries where LWR works, meet LWR’s regional staff and partners, and learn how they work together to find solutions…

Eleven new projects mounted by Lutheran congregations to help immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in their communities are receiving a total of $46,364 this year from the Good Samaritan Fund — a joint ongoing project of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service…

David and Radka Fiala, who taught English for three years in Slovakia and are beginning new terms of service as career missionaries in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, say they were surprised to learn that being an overseas…

Forty-six new missionaries were commissioned by LCMS World Mission June 26 in St. Paul, Minn., for service in 17 countries, including the Czech Republic, Japan, Hungary, India, Latvia, Panama, Peru, Poland, Slovak Republic, Thailand, Togo, and Uganda. The total includes…

“You and I sooner or later are going to experience what comes to all people — we are going to experience dying.  But there is a difference between us and the world.  The world looks away from that fact and…

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the City of St. Louis June 24, paving the way for volunteers with The Apple of His Eye, a St. Louis-based LCMS mission society, to hand out Christian literature during a “gay…

The Holy Bible and Luther’s Small Catechism  in Spanish have been published by Lutheran Heritage Foundation (LHF) in one book to help Lutherans reach Hispanics with the Gospel — in predominantly Spanish-speaking countries and in communities throughout the United States and…

New from Concordia Publishing House is A New Song: Planted by Streams of Water — Psalms of Divine Wisdom, a six-week Bible study written by women, for women.  It is the first release in the A New Song series. The new book, says…

Concordia University Texas, Austin, is developing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program to help meet the need for nurses in Texas. Pending approval from the Texas Board of Nursing, the LCMS university expects to begin admitting students to…