Academic Scientific JournalsGlobal Christian Responsibility in the Activity of the Lutheran World Federation in the Time of Coronavirus Pandemic
Keywords:
protestantism, coronavirus pandemic, Lutheran World Federation, Lutheranism, globalism, Covid-19Abstract
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the climate-crisis and Coronavirus-pandemic are the 3 most important events that are milestones of orientation for modern people. The year 2020 has been dominated on all possible levels by the first pandemic in almost a hundred years. COVID-19 has changed the economic, social, academic, political, and everyday lives of billions of people. The lockdown phenomenon, i.e. the order for citizens to stay in a certain place, the prohibition of performing certain activities, for example temporary closing of churches in some countries, caused various reactions from authorities, leaders, individual persons, and public organisations. In the dialogue they built up the common identity of humanity. The voices of the Christian churches still play an important role in this multidimensional exchange of thoughts. One of the most significant activities of the global Christian communities on the front of pandemic belongs to the Lutheran World Federation. This community of Lutherans worldwide has published a number of statements and, what is much more important, creates a space for building a global community of faith of people suffering during the pandemic.
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