ELCA apologizes for persecution of Anabaptists: Lay foundation for international cooperation
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has formally apologized for Lutheran persecution of Anabaptists in 16th-century Europe.
A statement approved by the ELCA Church Council, the denomination’s board of directors, during a mid-November meeting in Chicago declares that the church is expressing “its deep and abiding sorrow and regret for the persecution and suffering visited upon the Anabaptists during the religious disputes of the past.”