The Ecumenical News International website reports today (November 1, 2010) that a spokesman for Poland's Lutheran Church has said the issue of ordaining women as pastors is not closed, despite a recent vote by the church's main governing body not to allow women to be ordained.
"Once a new synod is elected in 2012, we can expect fresh calls for women to be ordained," said Wojciech Pracki of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, which has 80,000 registered members -- mostly in southern Poland.
"The ordination of women is favored by a wide cross-section of women, but also by many men, and much will now depend on sitting down and working out how such a step might become possible," Pracki said.
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