October 9, 2025 The council — which serves as the ELCA churchwide organization’s board of directors and interim legislative authority between meetings of a churchwide assembly — took the following actions on three memorials referred to the council at the adjournment of the 2025 Churchwide Assembly: • Directed Theological Discernment staff in the ELCA churchwide organization to review a request for a new social message on rural, remote communities and sovereign tribal nations,

March 13, 2026 Itasca, Ill. — The Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met March 3-7 at the Eaglewood Resort and Conference Center in Itasca, Ill. The conference is an advisory body of the ELCA that comprises 65 synod bishops, the presiding bishop and the secretary. In his presiding bishop’s report to the conference, the Rev. Yehiel Curry reinforced the priority area he has identified for his first three years in office: A connected churc

Many children in Uganda have to contribute to the family income through hard and dangerous work. The LWF country program in Uganda is sounding the alarm and working to change that. 29 Sep 2025 | English | German Image A child hauls sugarcane in Busonga, Eastern Uganda. Poverty and hunger force families to send their children to work. Photo: LWF/ Brian Salira LWF works against an alarming rise in child labor in Uganda (LWI) - Cutting sugarcane instead of learning to write