New Lutheran leader favors immigration

Saturday, January 30, 2010

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The newly announced president of the U.S. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Linda Hartke, has said she will work to make the United States a more welcoming place for immigrants and refugees. The LIRS board of directors announced in a statement made available to Ecumenical News International on January 28 that it has appointed Hartke to take up her post in Baltimore MD on February 22.

Of her appointment as president and CEO, Hartke said, "I look forward to working together with the LIRS board, staff, partners and friends across the country to make the United States a more welcoming place for immigrants and refugees." Until the end of 2009, Hartke headed the Geneva-based Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, a broad international network of churches and Christian organizations cooperating in campaigning on food and HIV/AIDS issues

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