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National Lutheran Stories
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Tuesday, November 24
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Lutheran CORE announces plan to form new church body
On November 18, Lutheran CORE announced at a Minneapolis press
conference that its board had voted to begin the process of forming a new
Lutheran denomination in North America. This body would be for those
congregations and individuals choosing to leave the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in
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Time is Running Out for IRA Charitable Distributions
Time is running out for those who are 70-and-a-half or older to make
qualified charitable distributions from their IRAs. In late summer 2008, the
U.S. Congress passed a continuance of legislation established in 2006 that
allows an individual to make distributions from an IRA up to $100,000
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Churches find practical ways to prepare for H1N1 pandemic
Warnings for how to be prepared for the H1N1 pandemic have filled the
television, Internet, radio, and print media over the course of the last year. As
of June 2009, the H1N1 virus was officially classified as a pandemic by the
World Health Organization. And, according to the Center for
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Lutheran Church of El Salvador continues prophetic witness for justice
Twenty years have passed since November 1989: During a guerrilla offensive
by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) of El Salvador, six
Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter, were murdered by
elements of the Salvadoran military at the Catholic University
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Born at the beginning of this decade, Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ seeks out position in a new environment
As plans for the national gathering of Lutheran Congregations in Mission for
Christ (LCMC) were being made, no one knew what to expect. The largest
previous registration for such a gathering included 380 people. But this
national gathering was coming just two months after the Evangelical
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More Headlines
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United Methodists and ELCA Lutherans celebrate full communion agreement
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Lutheran reform movement ratifies its future
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