%1

First nine women ordained as Lutheran pastors in Poland 

The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland took a historic step on May 7, as Presiding Bishop Jerzy Samiec ordained nine women to the priesthood at a service in Warsaw’s Holy Trinity Church. The event marked a concluding milestone in the discussion about women’s ordination which has been ongoing in Poland’s largest Protestant church for decades.

Izani Bruch named chaplain of Chilean presidential palace

On April 21, Izani Bruch, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile, was appointed chaplain of the Palacio de La Moneda of Chile, the national headquarters of governmental affairs and ministries.

“As a church we are very happy and we receive it with humility, with fear and trembling, but also with great hope and commitment to make this new Chile, which we are all dreaming of, possible,” Bruch said.