The governing body of local Lutheran churches has finally fired back — albeit in the form of a press release — against charges that it illegally locked out the congregation at Bethlehem Lutheran ...

SALISBURY – Almost 500 voting members and guests from congregations of the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) gathered for the May 31-June 1 assembly in ...

The Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, speaks in the chapel after the installation of the Rev. Ross Johnson (left) as the director of disaster response before a ...

Rev. Melissa L. Stoller was elected the next bishop of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America — the first woman to hold the position. The Southwestern ...

The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is planting two new congregations in Arkansas as part of its "100 Missions in 10 Years" initiative. Ross Chartrand is serving as a home missionary in Northwest ...

Bishop Abraham Allende and his wife, Linda, were planning to take a cruise in October until the pandemic scuttled their trip. He'll have time to reschedule now that he's retired from the leadership of ...

FARGO -- The Rev. Bill Rindy, a native of Mayville, N.D., and former high school math teacher, was elected the new bishop of the 100,000-strong Eastern North Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran ...

On Thursday, June 30, about a dozen people were gathered on the steps of Park Church Co-Op in Greenpoint. It was the church’s last ever day of operation, and congregants and supporters were discussing ...

ST. LOUIS — The president of a conservative Lutheran denomination has apologized for reprimanding a Newtown, Conn., pastor who participated in an interfaith prayer vigil in apparent violation of the ...

The first woman elected as bishop of the Oregon division of the Lutheran church took the reins Saturday at an ecumenical worship service held in Portland’s Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Laurie Larson ...