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69.5 Million Lutherans
GENEVA (ELCA) -- A one-year increase of 3.63 million Christians among member churches of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) put the total LWF membership at 65,927,334 in 2004, according to the latest statistical data from the LWF. LWF member churches around the world had 62.3 million members in 2003 and 61.7 million in 2001.
 
WCC Anticipates Post-assembly "Confidence and Engagement"
WCCChurch representatives have outlined an extensive reshaping and streamlining of the activity of the World Council of Churches (WCC), to better equip the global Christian body for a "fast-changing" world context and new patterns of church life.

 
U.S. theological society distressed at Vatican action on theologian
The Catholic Theological Society of America has expressed "profound distress" over the Vatican banning the book "Jesus Symbol of God" by U.S. Jesuit Father Roger Haight whom also has been banned from teaching Catholic theology.

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Central Committee Encourages Consideration of the Economic Measures for Peace
WCCThe World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee reminded the Council's member churches that "with investment funds, they have an opportunity to use those funds responsibly in support of peaceful solutions" to the Israel/Palestine conflict.
 
Central Committee Requests Legal Righs for Guantanamo Detainees
WCCThe World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee urged the government of the United States "to immediately grant the legal rights accorded to detainees" to "over 600 foreign nationals, mostly Muslims" held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base "without due process and in total violation of the norms and standards of international humanitarian and human rights law".

 
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