What can be done to break down barriers that prevent women from fulfilling their potential and reaching top leadership positions in the church and in society? That question was at the heart of a webinar hosted by the LWF on 8 March, International Women’s Day, featuring five women leaders from the global communion’s past, present and future.
Luther’s 500-year-old treatise ‘On the Freedom of a Christian’ provides a compass for the churches today as they seek to navigate the complex challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the political and social context of the 16th century may bear little resemblance to our own, the document’s call to love God and serve our neighbor is more relevant than ever before.
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May Day in Havana, 2007. | Enric Marti / AP
For 60 years, the United States has done everything within its power to destroy socialist Cuba. The tactics used have included a failed invasion, violent sabotage, attempted assassinations of Cuban leaders, and an endless and relentless barrage of lies in corporate-controlled media, academia, and other ideology-forming institutions. Cuban socialism, however, has survived all these assaults.
Today, the biggest challenge to Cuba is economic and financial. Not only does the United States government severely limit U.S. individuals and businesses from trading with Cuba, but it also threatens other countries with retaliatory actions, and does indeed retaliate, to get them to cut off their own economic relations with the island nation of 11.5 million people. This is why the U.S. policy is often referred to as a “blockade” and not merely an “embargo.” The barely concealed strategy is to cause suffering and privation to ordinary people in
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Ranitha Gnanarajah, a Sri Lankan lawyer and civil activist, has been included in this year s list of 14 International Courageous Women award presented annually by the US State Department.
On Monday, March 8, at 10:00 a.m., Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will host the annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards virtual ceremony to honor a group of extraordinary women from around the world, including an honorary award for seven women leaders and activists from Afghanistan who were assassinated for their dedication to improving the lives of Afghans.
The First Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden will deliver remarks to recognize the courageous accomplishments of these women.