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1000 Days of Resilience and Faith: A Prayer for Peace and Justice

On November 20, at the initiative of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), a commemoration of the 1000th day since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war took place. During a joint prayer led by Dr. Ireneusz Lukas, the LWF Regional Secretary for Europe, clergy, church representatives, and LWF partners reflected on the courage and resilience of ...

22.11.2024

The Kyiv community is visiting Finland

Pastor Ihor Shemigon, together with the faithful of the Kyiv congregation of St. Martin, visited Finland, where they presented their ministry in Kyiv, conducted liturgies, and met with local parishioners to establish partnerships.

18.11.2024

The GELCU) participated in the European Regional Conference of the Lutheran World Federation

At the Annual European Conference of the Lutheran World Federation in Prague, challenges of ministry during wartime were discussed. Pastor Dmytro Tsolin from Ukraine presented a report titled "Faith in Times of War," which generated particular interest.

03.11.2024

Articles

Wilhelm Loehe

Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe (1808-1872) served from 1837 to the end of his life as a village pastor in Neuendettelsau, Germany, in the vicinity of Nuremberg. This was a call that Loehe did not covet. However, from this out-of-the way place, Loehe engaged in a ministry and mission that had monumental influence, not only in Germany, but as far away ...

02.01.2023

Commemoration of Augsburg confession

The confession was presented to the Diet of Augsburg, an assembly of political leaders in the Holy Roman Empire, on June 25, 1530. Philipp Melanchthon, Martin Luther’s most influential colleague in Wittenberg, composed the document since Luther couldn’t attend the Diet because he had been declared a heretic and outlaw by the ecclesiastical and ...

24.06.2022

Why celebrate Christmas?

Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man. You would have suffered eternal death, had he not been born in time. Never would you have been freed from sinful flesh, had he not taken on himself the likeness of ...

24.12.2021

St. Catherine’s, Kiev

Kiev, Lyuteranska, 22 - More about the church »

St. Martin, Kiev

Kyiv, Krakivska str., 13в, 02094 - More about the church »

Holy Ascension, Kharkov

Kharkivsk'a oblast, m. Kharkiv, vul. Rybalko 12a - More about the church »

St. Paul, Odessa

Novoselskogo str, 68 - More about the church »

Berdiansk

Liuteranska str, 21 - More about the church »

Reconciliation, Poltava

Kotsyubinskogo Str, 54a - More about the church »

Transfiguration, Bila Tserkva

Spartakivska str, 16/2 - More about the church »

Zaporizhzhia

Hvardiyskiy blvdr, 24, app. 29 - More about the church »

Zmiivka

Kherson oblast, Berislav rayon, Zmiivka, str. Budyonny, 11, 74372 - More about the church »

Kremenchug

vul. Kovalova, 6 - More about the church »

Kryvyi Rih

V. Skripka Str, 66 - More about the church »

Novohradkivka

Odessa oblast, Odessa rayon, Novogradkovka, st. Solnechnaya, 1, 67830 - More about the church »

Petrodolynske

Odessa oblast, Odessa district, Petrodolynske, st. Sosnova, 7, 67810 - More about the church »

Salvation, Shostka

Sumy oblast, Shostka, Sadovyi Bul`var str., 55-a - More about the church »

Zhytomyr

Kotsyubinskogo Str, 5 - More about the church »

Vinnitsia

prov. L'va Tolstogo, 2/2 - More about the church »