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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Sunday, 05 September 2010 17:22 |
STUTTGART — (ENI) The Lutheran World Federation has chosen Palestinian Bishop Munib A. Younan, a campaigner for peace, justice and inter-faith dialogue, as its next president.
The 59-year-old bishop was the only candidate for the post and becomes the first Arab to lead the Geneva-based body that groups 70 million Protestants worldwide.
He was elected on at the LWF’s 11th assembly, its highest decision-making body, meeting here July 20-27.
Younan told delegates he was introduced to the LWF as a refugee when he drank chocolate milk at the Martin Luther School in Jerusalem and that this inspired him to enter the church ministry.
Younan replaces Mark Hanson, the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, who has served a seven-year period as president of the LWF. Younan’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land with 3,000 members is one of the smallest of the LWF churches.
— Peter Kenny
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