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    LWF Youth Pre-Assembly at the Heja Game Lodge. Photo: LWF/JC Valeriano

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    10 May 2017, Windhoek, Namibia: Delegates respond to the opening session of the Twelfth Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

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    Messages from the Pre-Assemblies take up the theme of the Thirteenth Assembly. Photo: LWF/Jotham Lee

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    Thirteenth Assembly of The Lutheran World Federation, Krakow, Poland, 13-19 September 2023, at the ICE center

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Resolution on Moving forward on gender justice in polarised times

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows: 

  1. To call on the LWF Council to initiate a strategic process on the next steps in the concrete implementation and development of the Gender Justice Policy (2013), and also the Emmaus Conversation, regionally;
  2. To call on the LWF Communion Office to gather good practices and concrete tools that exist within LWF member churches  of successful dialogue on potentially divisive issues and urge LWF member churches to share their contextually relevant tools and practices;  
  3. To call on the LWF Communion Office to develop and strengthen platforms and strategies for sharing of such resources, practical tools and strategies to enable capacity building and resource development within various contexts and urge LWF member churches to engage in such capacity building;
  4. To call on the LWF Communion Office and the LWF member churches and regions to prioritize funding or at least to secure minimally the same percentage to advance and support gender justice and women’s empowerment;  
  5. To call on the LWF Council to ensure that the Accountability Framework now under development itself be gender just and to have a specific element to support gender justice; and 
  6. To urge the LWF Communion Office to continue accompanying LWF member churches in supporting women in the ordained ministry and women in leadership.

Resolution on Gender Based Violence

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows: 

  1. To call on the LWF Communion Office to revisit the resolution on Sex Education and Elimination on Sexual and Gender-based Violence from Windhoek 2017 “To encourage LWF member churches to focus on sex education and the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence, including domestic violence, rape, sexual coercion, and sexual harassment within our churches. This focus is to be ethically and theologically comprehensive in cooperation with civil society. These efforts should include collecting the testimony of those who have survived violence, so that their story is told and the silence is broken.”;
  2. To require that all LWF activities have safe-guarding mechanisms against sexual harassment and gender-based violence including on digital platforms; and
  3. That the LWF Communion Office support LWF member churches in creating and utilizing a Code of Conduct and other relevant policies and training materials to end sexual harassment and gender-based violence in LWF member churches.

Resolution on reaffirming the youth quota

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:

  1. To call upon the LWF member churches to implement the youth quota, so that youth are fully engaged through participation and voting in decision-making structures and processes; 
  2. To call upon the LWF Council and the LWF member churches to develop a transparent and accountable mechanism to ensure that the youth quota will be met with official delegates who have the right to vote (not stewards, advisors etc.) by all regions at future Assemblies; and 
  3. To call upon the LWF member churches to continue preparing youth in their leadership, strengthening youth networks through activities that empower their members for mutual cooperation in local and global contexts and, in so doing, nominate youth delegates who are familiar with the church’s work.

Resolution on reaffirming the lay quota

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:   

  1. To urge the LWF Council to implement a lay quota of forty percent in all bodies of the LWF as stated in the resolution; and
  2. To call upon the LWF Council, the Regions, and the LWF to develop a transparent and accountable mechanism to ensure that the lay quota will be met at future Assemblies.

Resolution on the rights of persons with disabilities

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:  

  1. To call on the LWF Communion Office to ensure accessibility in all its events and of services it provides;
  2. To call on the LWF Communion Office develop strategies to improve and mainstream disability inclusion, in LWF policies, in LWF advocacy work and within LWF’s programs and all activities, including Assemblies; 
  3. To call on the LWF Communion Office to acquire and analyze disaggregated data on the participation of persons with disabilities in the life of the LWF member churches; 
  4. To call on the LWF to work together in consultation with organizations of persons with disabilities to access relevant expertise; and
  5. To call on the LWF Communion Office to advocate actively for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Resolution on indigenous peoples

Indigenous people’s rights and the Lutheran World Federation

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows: 

  1. To reaffirm the resolution from Winnipeg 2003 which called on the LWF to initiate a specific program for Indigenous Peoples, initiate theological study processes and support a process at the national, regional and international levels for protecting human rights of Indigenous peoples, including land rights;
  2. To call on the LWF Communion Office to ensure that work on indigenous people is included in the new strategy for indigenous work; 
  3. To call on the LWF Communion Office to collaborate and share learnings with the WCC central office conducting this work;
  4. To call on the LWF Communion Office to support LWF member churches to commit to investigating their own truth and reconciliation processes together with indigenous populations within their own contexts and to support indigenous people to acquire contacts across national borders that separate the indigenous population from each other and others; and
  5. To call on the LWF to offer a dedicated space in conjunction with the Assemblies for delegates for indigenous peoples in the form of, for example, a Pre-Assembly.

Resolution on Jewish-Christian Relations

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:   

  1. To call upon LWF member churches and theological institutions to develop further theological reflection on Jewish-Christian relations from a Lutheran perspective in a global context;
  2. To encourage LWF member churches to explore the possibility of beginning or furthering dialogues with Jewish partners both at the academic and grassroots level to foster a deeper understanding of each other’s communities; and 
  3. To call upon the LWF Communion Office to further dialogue, engagement and collaboration with Jewish partners such as the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) on topics of mutual interest by the next Assembly.

Resolution on affirming humanitarian response on behalf of those affected by disasters in Libya, Morocco and other humanitarian crises

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:

  1. To call on the member churches to continue praying and standing in solidarity with the many people and communities around the world that are affected by humanitarian disasters; and 
  2. To call on the LWF World Service to continue, with ecumenical and interfaith partners, its humanitarian assistance, livelihoods and advocacy on behalf of the LWF member churches in order to support people and communities affected by disasters.

Resolution on the climate emergency

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:

  1. To call on the LWF to continue with its efforts to encourage, support and accompany LWF member churches and other people affected by climate change through appropriate programs; and sharing of best practices, resources, and knowledge;
  2. To call on the LWF Communion Office to strengthen its advocacy for climate justice at all levels, including by encouraging LWF member churches to incorporate climate justice campaigns into their activities;
  3. To call on the LWF Communion Office to support, as appropriate, the protection of the rights and dignity of environmental defenders and people displaced by climate change impacts, including by the provision of the necessary humanitarian and livelihoods assistance;
  4. To call on the LWF Communion Office to intensify the LWF’s efforts towards reducing emissions and pollution by putting in place a Paris Agreement-aligned viable plan of action, with the aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2030;
  5. To encourage LWF member churches to reduce their emissions to contribute to the action plan mentioned above, within their contexts;
  6. To encourage LWF member churches to emphasize the importance of eco-theology as a framework for integrating spiritual and ethical values into environmental stewardship, articulating our theological basis for the care of creation, sharing technical knowledge, and advocating for climate justice; and 
  7. To call on the LWF Communion Office to develop a climate justice policy and materials on the relationship between the climate emergency and human rights.

Resolution on serving with people on the move

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:

  1. To call on LWF member churches to unite and reaffirm their commitment in advocacy and action to serve people on the move due the climate crisis, conflicts, wars and violations of human rights; and
  2. To encourage LWF member churches to show solidarity and act together strongly and work with like-minded networks to influence public opinion and all governments on issues of migration, refugees and internally displaced persons and to stand up for the human rights of all in society.

Resolution on the Church in the public space

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:

  1. To affirm the crucial role of LWF member churches in their public voice in their contexts, recognizing that some of them are faced with risks and restrictions;
  2. To call on the LWF Communion Office to strengthen its efforts and programs to support LWF member churches in theological reflection and in their advocacy at the local and national levels, particularly through capacity building and provision of relevant advocacy tools;
  3. To call on the LWF Communion Office to continue to amplify the advocacy work of LWF member churches at regional and global levels – including through supporting the engagement of LWF member churches with the United Nations and regional intergovernmental bodies;
  4. To call on the LWF Communion Office to continue enhancing theological underpinning for LWF advocacy to ensure that thematic work, including those related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and 
  5. To call on the LWF Communion Office to invest in and enhance advocacy capacity-building for young people.

Resolution on strengthening ecumenical commitment and ecumenical commemoration of 500th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession

The LWF Assembly resolves as follows:

  1. To call on the LWF Communion Office to prepare for the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession in conversation with ecumenical partners;
  2. To call on the LWF Communion Office to utilize the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession to engage with the Augsburg Confession in ongoing ecumenical dialogues; and 
  3. To call on the LWF Communion Office to engage in strengthening the reception process of ecumenical study documents in accordance with the LWF Council decision 2023, including facilitating a global network of ecumenical experts.

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