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tion against conservative members. The suit lists the ELCA; the synod; Norman Lutheran in Kindred, N.D.; a pastor; and several parishioners as defendants. The family that filed the suit said it has been members of Nor- man for 23 years and now feel ostra- cized for expressing opinions against hiring an openly gay pastor.


Finns meet pope


Samuel Salmi, bishop of the Oulu Diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, and other Finnish


Lutherans received communion at a Jan. 15 mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, according to the Finnish peri- odical Kotimaa 24 (photo at right). The Lutherans attended the service after a private meeting with Pope Francis. “I myself accepted [commu- nion],” Salmi told Kotimaa 24, add- ing “this was not a coincidence.” The delegation visited during the World Council of Churches’ 2016 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. “This week of prayer invites us to reflect on, and bear witness to, our unity in Christ as God’s people,” the pope said in his address at his weekly audience.


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In its Global Risks Report for 2016, the World Economic Forum ranked large-scale involuntary migration as the No. 1 most likely risk. At a January


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conference, Martin Junge, Lutheran World Federation general secretary, emphasized the need to strengthen collaboration between faith-based organizations and other bodies in protecting refugees and addressing the root causes of displacement and forced migration. The risk with the greatest impact, the report stated, is “a failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation.”


Correction


A list of staff at The Lutheran who worked with the recently retired edi- tor (February, page 4) should have included Amber Leberman.


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