Founded in 1992 'in response to landowners' interest in wildlife conservation, land rights and security across the County' (LWF 2016), today, LWF still relies greatly on private landowner involvement and facilitation.
Since NAICS codes in the LWF are available only from 1992, we used the LWF data from 1992 to 2008.
The LWF took the lead in ecumenical conversations with the Roman Catholic Church, which led to a Joint Declaration on justification, signed by representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the LWF in 1999.
In 1947 it assumed permanent form as the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), an umbrella organization of the various national Lutheran churches.
Ahead of accreditation by the LWF, Everton has handed 250 casual and match-day staff a pay rise taking them to the living wage.
The LWF has no authority to speak for worldwide Lutheranism and mainly serves as a forum for intra-Lutheran discussion and ecumenical consultation with other churches.
When questioned on its aims and impact, Sano speaks in terms of a "planetary awakening" and LWF Youth, an active supporter of the movement, describes it as an example of "spiritual solidarity".
Of the 65 million Lutherans who belonged to the LWF at the beginning of the 21st century, there were roughly 39 million in Europe, 5 million in North America, and 20 million in Asia and Africa.
Only five football clubs – including Luton Town, Derby County and Heart of Midlothian – are fully accredited by the LWF, ensuring that all staff and agency workers have earned at least £9.40 an hour in London and £8.25 outside the capital.
She delights in this kind of paradox, telling the LWF conference, for example, that "if one wants to be a political progressive, one needs to be an educational conservative".
Intriguingly, one of the very few plays to have come close to the longevity of LWF – Abie's Irish Rose, which was performed on Broadway 2,327 times in the 1920s – is also a family comedy turning on theological crises, in which a Jewish boy falls for a Catholic girl.
