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Responses to the 'Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification' from
the LWF Member Churches
(Received as of 12 June 1998)

"Yes" without qualifying comment
Christian Protestant Angkola Church [Indonesia]
Church of Norway
Church of Sweden
Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine [France]
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Congo
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sierra Leone
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Angola
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa
Evangelical Lutheran Church of France
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Central African Republic
Evangelical Church of Eritrea
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Madhya Pradesh [India]
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia
Evangelical Church of the River Plate [Argentina]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Suriname
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria [Germany]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia
Evangelical Lutheran Church - The National Church of Iceland
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Slovak Republic
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovenia
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Italy
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN)
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (DELK)
Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam [India]
Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church
Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria
Lutheran Church in Guyana
Lutheran Church in Malaysia
Lutheran Church in Great Britain
Protestant Christian Batak Church [Indonesia]
Salvadoran Lutheran Synod [El Salvador]
Silesian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Czech
Republic
Simalungun Protestant Christian Church [Indonesia]
Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in SR Yugoslavia
Taiwan Lutheran Church
The Nicaraguan Lutheran Church of Faith and Hope
The Lutheran Church in Hungary
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela
The Indonesian Christian Church
The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India - (seven churches):
     Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church
     India Evangelical Lutheran Church
     Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church
     Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church
     South Andhra Lutheran Church - Telugu
     The Arcot Lutheran Church
     The Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church
United Evangelical Lutheran Church [Argentina]

"Yes" with qualifying comment
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (Natal-Transvaal)
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria
Evangelical Church of Pomerania [Germany]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg [Germany]
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (Cape Church)
Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick [Germany]
Evangelical Church in Wurttemberg [Germany]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony [Germany]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia [Germany]
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Switzerland
     and the Principality of Liechtenstein
Indonesian Christian Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church in Chile
Lutheran Church in Liberia
Lutheran Church in the Philippines
Lutheran Church of Australia
North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church [Germany]

Difficult to interpret but seems to be "yes"
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover [Germany]

Difficult to interpret but seem to be "no"
Church of Lippe [Lutheran Section][Germany]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe [Germany]

"No"
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad [Canada]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baden [Germany]
Kinki Evangelical Lutheran Church [Japan]
Malagasy Lutheran Church [Madagascar]
The Lutheran Church of Nigeria

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