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Click here to download President Hill's paper,
"Persecution of Christians in America," which he presented at the
Tell the Good News about Jesus Convocation of 2021

Click here to view a short highlight video of the Senate hearing on the Equality Act.

Click here to view the April Life Together Digest with Pres. Harrison. In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), reflects on the hope of the resurrection that Christians have in Christ this Eastertide.

Dear Fellow Redeemed:
You have my tremendous thanks for the generosity you’ve expressed for the people suffering from the war and violence in Ukraine. As the pain and suffering continue in eastern Europe, your Synod has been and is responding — by God's immeasurable grace.

Below is a report outlining how charitable contributions have been used already.

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Mercy in Mission – Aid for Ukraine

You can support Mercy in Mission work in Ukraine with a gift through the International Lutheran Council. Financial aid for Ukraine is being directed to Lutheran churches in Ukraine and ILC member churches with a history of direct work alongside Ukrainian Lutheran leadership. Aid is also being directed to neighboring ILC churches who are assisting Ukrainian refugees with housing and other emergency needs. READ MORE DONATE

The Russian participant reported: “The shock of what has happened is so grave that we will probably be able to realize it only years after. I think that at the moment we are going through the first four stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. ‘It can’t be! We can’t have started a war!’ ‘Damn this war!’ ‘There must be some way out!’ ‘It’s all hopeless…’ The world we lived in has been shattered and there is no way to undo it.

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Destroyed buildings on the streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine on March 3, 2022.

Finnish Lutherans fully acquitted

The case is closed. At 1 p.m. on March 30, the Helsinki District Court in Finland issued its decision to acquit both the Rev. Dr. Juhana Pohjola, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, and Dr. Päivi Räsänen, a medical doctor and longstanding member of the Finnish Parliament. The trial of Pohjola and Räsänen began on Jan. 24.

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RIGHT: The Rev. Dr. Juhana Pohjola, departs worship following his consecration as bishop of the Evangelical Mission Diocese of Finland on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Loimaa, Finland.

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Office of International Mission (OIM) continues to work with the Rev. Serge Maschewski, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine (ELCU), to offer assistance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
(click here to read this article)

On the evening of March 3, Sergiu was waiting when Ukrainian Lutheran refugees arrived in Romania at the Isaccea Border Point. He had been at the Border Point since Monday, waiting for this group of Lutherans while helping other Ukrainian refugees.
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‘The list changes daily’: Help for Ukraine . . . First, we pray that their faith in Christ would endure. We also pray that God would provide for them as their gracious heavenly Father. And we pray that all find hope and strength in the grace of God in Jesus Christ. (click here to read this article)

Biblical truth on trial in Finland UPDATE

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At the end of this short video Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison will mention a 40 minute LCMS production
about Rosa Young. You can CLICK HERE to watch or download this film documentary The First Rosa.

When was Christ born?

An answer is offered from Pastor Jonathan Lange of Wyoming District congregations in Evanston and Kemmerer, Wyoming in For this reason I was born: Why Christmas is on December 25: "While different Christian traditions have celebrated in different ways and have emphasized different days of this season, all Christians have marked December 25th as the birthday of Jesus going back at least to its first explicit mention in 354 A.D." READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE