More funding needed for recovery from El Nino in Ethiopia
(LWI) - After a severe drought which brought ten million people to the brink of starvation, the returning seasonal rains have started irregularly. There is little rain in some…
CAR: innovative voucher system instead of aid distribution
(LWI) - “It’s just like a market, we can choose ourselves what we need!” says Charlotte*, one of the 565 visitors to the relief goods fair organized in Nola, Sangha Mbaere…
Celebrating 25 years of Lutheran women’s ordination in Tanzania’s Northern Diocese
(LWI) - More than 10 percent of ordained pastors in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) are women, and nearly all the church’s 24 dioceses…
Courses on fuel-efficiency foster peace between refugees and hosts in Uganda
(LWI) – “By the end of the day, we expect to complete four stoves,” says Drichi Godfrey, a 26-year-old refugee from South Sudan. He, his wife and the two…
Cash for work projects to help drought affected farmers in Ethiopia
(LWI) – To see what climate change looks like, one only needs to talk to Ato Abebe Desale, a 46-year-old farmer and head of a household of seven people. He and his family…
Refugee athlete to give testimony at Ecumenical Commemoration
(LWI) – Olympic athlete and refugee Rose Nathike Lokonyen will be one of the speakers at the Joint Lutheran-Catholic Commemoration in Sweden on 31 October.
Panel discussion about civil society and peace-building from below in South Sudan
(LWI) – The killing in South Sudan has to stop , the grassroots have to be involved at a national level and space provided for civil society to act for…
(LWI) – Thirteen-year-old Nima Chhiyog Lama still dreams about the small cozy room in her old house. A warm place, her family around her and the wood fire burning in the kitchen - much like…
LWF Vice-President Fabiny prays intercommunion will still come true
(LWI) - Hungarian Lutheran Bishop Dr Tamás Fabiny participated in the 1999 signing of the Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in Germany…