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Title: Lutheran World Federation President Pleads for Unity Despite Differences
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>July 22, 2010  

Lutheran World Federation President Pleads for Unity Despite Differences
10-205-JB

STUTTGART, Germany (ELCA) -- The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, president of
the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and presiding bishop of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), appealed to delegates at
the LWF assembly here to hold together and avoid splits in the face of
differences over issues of sexuality, according to Ecumenical News
International (ENI).

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