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Pastor, General Secretary of WACC
Country of origin
Germany/Canada

Karin Achtelstetter is General Secretary of  the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) in Toronto (Canada)  She is former Director of the Lutheran World Federation and was coordinator for the Media Relations of the World Council of Churches in Geneva (Switzerland)  She has graduated in theology, sociology and psychology and in 2010 she was ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (Germany). In 2011, she was conferred Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa) by the Academy of Ecumenical Indian Theology in Chennai (India).

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"Defiant" by director Visa Koiso-Kanttila wins the Prize of the Church Media Foundation in Finland at the International Chidren's and Youth Festival in Oulu 2025.
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Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2

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