The ILC’s 2025 World Conference in Brief

Participants in the ILC's 2025 World Conference. ILC General Secretary Klaus Detlev Schulz and the new board of directors: LCC President Timothy Teuscher (North America), SLM President Omar Garza Martínez (Secretary), IELP President Alceu Alton Figur (Latin America),...

World Conference 2025: ILC issues statements on the Nicene Creed and Unity in Christ

PHILIPPINES – On the final day of its 2025 World Conference, the International Lutheran Council adopted two statements: one on the Nicene Creed and the other on unity in Christ. The first of these—An Affirmation of the Nicene Creed—was adopted in light of this year’s...

2025 World Conference: Membership Votes and Board Elections

ELCE Chairman George Samiec preaches. PHILIPPINES – The final day of the International Lutheran Council’s 2025 World Conference saw six observer member churches accepted as full members in the ILC and the election of board members for a new triennium. The day began...

2025 World Conference: Affirming Constants in an Everchanging World

LCU Bishop Charles Bameka preaches during the conference. PHILIPPINES – The International Lutheran Council's (ILC) World Conference continued on Wednesday, beginning with a service of Matins. The Lutheran Church in the Philippines’ (LCP) Vice President Felipe Ehican...

2025 World Conference: Asia Regional Focus on Shamanism and Syncretism

Presenters in the Regional Focus on Syncretism in Asia: Rev. Dr. Jun-Hyun Kim, Rev. Henry Paul D. Roa, and Rev. Michael Hauser. (Photo: T. Winger). PHILIPPINES – The afternoon of the second day of the International Lutheran Council’s (ILC) 2025 World Conference saw...

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The International Lutheran Council is a worldwide association of confessional Lutheran church bodies and groups which proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the basis of an unconditional commitment to the Holy Scriptures as the inspired and infallible Word of God and to the Lutheran Confessions contained in the Book of Concord as the true and faithful exposition of the Word of God. The ILC exists for the purpose of encouraging, strengthening, and promoting confessional Lutheran theology and practice centering in Jesus Christ, both among its members and throughout the world.

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