Carol Tobias, a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Albuquerque, N.M., is the new president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the national federation of 50 state affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters. Tobias, the eighth NRLC president…

Medical volunteers are urgently needed to work at the clinic operated by Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin, to treat those injured by the devastating May 22 tornado in the southwest Missouri town. At the request of the congregation, LCMS World…

Reservations are required by July 1 for a 12-day tour of Germany hosted by Synod President Dr. Matthew C. Harrison and Rev. Jon Vieker, senior assistant to the president.  Produced by LutherTours, the Nov. 30-Dec. 11 tour coincides with the…

(RNS) — Religious leaders are hoping to hit a home run in a campaign to get Major League Baseball players to ban tobacco use on fields and dugouts of the national pastime. More than two dozen members of the coalition…

TORONTO (RNS) — A group of Catholic and Jewish parents is taking the province of Quebec to court to challenge a government ban on religious teachings at subsidized daycare centers. The parents say a Quebec policy that prohibits religious instruction…

By Kim Plummer Krull Even a disaster-response veteran like LCMS World Relief and Human Care’s (WR-HC) Rev. Glenn F. Merritt says the devastation after the deadly tornado in Joplin, Mo., surpasses what he has seen after most other disasters. “This…

Responding to the recent onslaught of natural disasters, Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF) has put in place a new program to help LCMS rostered church workers (RCW), congregations, schools and other official Synod-related organizations affected by such disasters with loan…

By John Oberdeck “I personally had no idea how far or in what direction my training as a lay minister would take me. I simply know that it would not have all happened without my training and experience at Concordia.”…

By Sarah Schafer Harold and Harriet Fritz were two of dozens of volunteers from across the country to help with tornado relief at Immanuel Lutheran Church and Martin Luther School in Joplin, Mo., over Memorial Day weekend. “It’s the least…

By Joe Isenhower Jr. FORT WAYNE, Ind. — At its May 18-19 meeting here on the campus of Concordia Theological Seminary, the Synod’s Board of Directors adopted a national-Synod operating budget of $76,748,812 for the 2011-12 fiscal year that starts…

By James Heine Acting as the Board of Assignments, the LCMS Council of Presidents (COP) April 30 assigned first calls to 149 candidates certified for ministry by Concordia Seminary, St. Louis; Concordia Theological Seminary (CTS), Fort Wayne, Ind.; Concordia Lutheran…