Protestant Faculty News Today

Retired United Methodist Church Bishop João Somane Machado, who oversaw congregations in Mozambique and ordained the first female pastors in the country, has died at age 77.

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Regional Secretary for Africa, Rev. Dr Samuel Dawai of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren of Cameroon (EFLC) took up his role in July this year. Dawai, a New Testament scholar has served his home church for 26 years as a parish pastor, biblical scholar and director of the EFLC’s Kaélé Seminary in Northern Cameroon. As regional secretary, he