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Title: Lutheran World Federation Meets In 'Confident Hope,' Says President
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>July 21, 2010  

Lutheran World Federation Meets In 'Confident Hope,' Says President
10-202-JB

STUTTGART, Germany (ELCA) -- Lutherans are meeting in Stuttgart,
Germany, for their international assembly at a time when "the world is in
pain," said the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, president of the Lutheran World
Federation (LWF) and presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America, according to a July 21 news release from Lutheran World
Information (LWI).  Hanson made the comment in his address here to the
LWF Eleventh Assembly.

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