Melissa Ramirez Cooper

• In Brazil: Hanson focuses on ecumenism
• Help with immigration issues
• Fields of hope
  Lutherans support farm workers in their struggle for a better life
• 'Lutherans have a unique witness in Palestine'
• 'Paz para Vieques!'
  Lutherans in Puerto Rico claim peace for residents living beside a bombing range
• A 'little United Nations'
  At San Martín, St. Paul, inclusivity is a decision
• 'Las Posadas'
  Hispanic tradition remembers the plight of Joseph and Mary
• The power of peace
  Land mine activist led campaign that 'changed the world on this one tiny issue'
• Lutheran students hold 'Free for All'

• ELCA leaders respond to the shooting death of Trayvon Martin
• Haiti: Devastation worse than imagined
• Younan elected president of Lutheran World Federation
• Marj Leegard, Lutheran Woman Today Columnist, Dies
• Three ELCA members die in Okla. plane crash
• Two dismissed pastors and others welcomed to ELCA clergy roster
• Schmeling, Easler to be reinstated to ELCA clergy roster
• ELCA Church Council authorizes rite, receives 'Bound Conscience' report
• ELCA Council acts on wills campaign, genetics, more
• Members of Pennsylvania congregation "OK" after carbon monoxide poisoning
• ELCA youth return to New Orleans in 2012
• Funeral, burial for Ben Larson Feb. 6
• Scott Roeder convicted of murdering Dr. George Tiller, ELCA member
• Lutheran college students stranded in Machu Picchu
• Waldorf College no longer ELCA school
• Congregation seeks equal opportunities for calling pastors
• Assembly opens ministry to partnered gay and lesbian Lutherans
• Assembly takes first steps on ministry policies document
• Churchwide Assembly adopts 'Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust'
• Assembly learns of decrease in 2010-2011 income expectations
• H1N1 influenza confirmed among some Youth Gathering participants
• Episcopalians, Lutherans taking action on sexuality topics
• ELCA Council transmits social statement, report and recommendation
• Lutheran theologians respond to ELCA task force documents
• ELCA mission personnel evacuate Madagascar
• ELCA Task Force Releases 'Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust'
• Lutheran social ministry organizations affected by economic downturn
• Task force concludes work on social statement, ministry standards
• Lutherans provide funds to support humanitarian aid in Gaza
• ELCA will send nearly $1 million in aid for Zimbabwe
• Texas-Louisiana synod office relocates
• ELCA funds, sent Sept. 12, help storm survivors in Haiti, Cuba
• ELCA anti-racism leaders gather in Baltimore
• ELCA synod bishop and New Jersey senator visit immigration detention center
• 'All hands on deck' needed for flood recovery in Midwest
• ELCA synod bishops visit immigration detention centers
• Lutherans assess damage following storms over Memorial Day weekend
• Lutherans work to meet the needs of people in Myanmar
• Kimball named president of California Lutheran University
• Presiding bishop, others urge Secretary Rice to resolve Gaza crisis
• Lutherans offer comfort after Northern Illinois University shooting
• Draft of proposed ELCA social statement on sexuality available March 13
• ELCA continues humanitarian support in Darfur, earthquake relief in Peru
• Wisconsin: Lutherans survey tornado-affected areas
• ELCA Bishop Mark Hanson featured in CBS's 'In God's Name' Dec. 23
• California: Lutherans proceed with next steps in wildfires
• Lutherans provide emotional care in response to California wildfires
• Lutherans support recovery efforts in Bangladesh
• Pennsylvania: Lutherans participate in Homeland Security course
• North Dakota: Lutherans participate in tornado cleanup efforts