KATHMANDU, Nepal/ GENEVA, 29 July 2015 (LWI) – Three months after the earthquake in Nepal, the need for more durable shelter solutions has become a priority.
LWF Council concern over violence against religious minorities
GENEVA, 3 August 2015 (LWI) - At its 2015 meeting, the Council of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) adopted a resolution on the Middle East, voicing concern about violence…
SITTWE, Myanmar/ GENEVA, 5 August 2015 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Country program in Myanmar has formed an emergency response team to support the people affected by the monsoon floods in Rakhine…
(LWI) - “What am I supposed to do now?” Rosni Paryar, 19, looks worried and disheveled when she shows us her collapsed house in Kusunthali village in the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. The top floor of her brick…
GENEVA, 18 August 2015 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) upholds in prayers the people of Thailand and the Lutheran church there following the 17 August deadly bombing of a shrine in the capital Bangkok.
GENEVA, 18 August 2015 (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has published four new booklets on the 2017 Reformation anniversary theme, Liberated by God’s Grace, and…
JERUSALEM/GENEVA 21 August 2015 (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is among 31 aid, faith, human rights, and development organizations in Jerusalem calling on world leaders to take urgent…
Indian young reformer plants historic tree at Wittenberg Luther Garden
WITTENBERG, Germany/GENEVA, 28 August 2015 (LWI) – Youth delegates from Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches across the world witnessed the first young…
LWF co-sponsored consultation affirms continued dialogue at the grassroots of society
HONG KONG /GENEVA, 8 September 2015 (LWI) – An international consultation deliberating the role of religion in the public space in Asia has called for…
SITTWE, Myanmar/GENEVA (LWI) – U Kyaw Thein has planted again. After a flood destroyed the livelihood he had built up over several years, his family saw no other way than to to move away from his home village. Support by The Lutheran World…