Catholics and Lutherans have made another step toward joint commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 by issuing common liturgical guidelines for ecumenical services to mark ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Catholics and Lutherans are re-examining the Protestant Reformation, saying Martin Luther “had no intention of establishing a new church, but was part of a broad and many-faceted ...

In 1999, as a senior in a public high school abiding within the buckle of the Bible Belt, I attended my local parish’s Catholic-Lutheran celebration of the “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of ...

In suburban Minneapolis, two Evangelical Lutheran congregations find themselves on opposite sides of a national debate on the role of gays in the church. Points of contention include ordaining ...

A vote to allow gay pastors to preach in member churches has led some congregations to consider leaving the largest body of Lutherans in the United States. On Aug. 21, the Evangelical Lutheran Church ...

Pope Francis has strikingly suggested that Lutherans married to Catholics can personally discern whether to take Communion in the Catholic church, saying it is not his role to give permission to such ...

Take a guess: On any given Sunday, where do you find the most Lutherans in church? The answer: Ethiopia and Tanzania. The two nations, with nearly 8 million and 6.5 million Lutherans respectively, are ...

Ever since the 1830s, when sectionalism and new waves of immigration began to splinter American Lutheranism, denominational unity has seemed an all but unattainable dream. Ethnic, political and ...

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PARIS (Reuters) - Two leading Lutheran clerics have rejected suggestions from the Vatican that it could create a subdivision for converted Lutherans similar to its structures for Anglicans who join ...

Rev. Megan Rohrer has been elected as the first openly transgender bishop within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. They will lead some 200 congregations in California and Nevada. The ...