December saw the Evangelical Lutheran community of Uzbekistan celebrate its centenary as the only Lutheran Church in Central Asia.

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(77.2 of population members at the end of 2011).

The largest organizations of Lutheran churches around the world are the Lutheran World Federation, the International Lutheran Council, and the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference.

It is the main church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg ( Evangelische Landeskirche in Württemberg ) as well as the parish church of the evangelical (Lutheran) inner city church district of Stuttgart.

The church required from each person a degree of literacy sufficient to read the basic texts of the Lutheran faith.

In the Holy Roman Empire, Charles V agreed to tolerate Lutheranism in 1555 at the Peace of Augsburg.

The church has a power to tax its members and all corporations unless a majority of shareholders are members of the Finnish Orthodox Church.

English services of the International Congregation of Christ the King (ICCK) are organized by the Anglican Church in Finland and the Lutheran Parishes of Tampere.

Legacy Donne is commemorated as a priest in the calendar of the Church of England and in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 31 March.

He was the first tsar to import foreign teachers on a large scale, the first to send young Russians abroad to be educated, and the first to allow Lutheran churches to be built in Russia.

It also serves as the headquarters of the Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, since this Arabic speaking (Palestinian) church became independent from the German provost in 1979.

Of course, so serious is the situation in Dadaab that Oxfam is not the only international organization working in the camp and one aid worker, Amy Burke, is providing regular updates on the Lutheran World Relief blog

Article 2 of the Norwegian Constitution states that the Evangelical Lutheran Church is the official state religion, and further determines that those of the inhabitants, who subscribe to this have an obligation to bring up their children in the same manner .

Membership of the Council includes the leaders of the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, the Tashkent and Central Asian eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Union of Christian Evangelical Baptist Churches, the Full Gospel Church Centre, the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Tashkent Jewish community.