Press release reporting that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Churchwide Assembly voted overwhelmingly to divest all funds invested by its Board of Pensions in companies doing business in South Africa and approved a timeline for such action. The press release quotes Rev. Will L. Herzfeld, Bishop Lowell O. Erdahl, John G. Kapanke and Larry Albrecht. The press release mentions Pension Members for Justice, a grass roots Lutheran organization seeking divestment of all ELCA pension funds from corporations doing business with South Africa and Namibia.
