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LWF Council adviser Ms Laura Saravia is coordinator of humanitarian aid, response to climate change and youth and gender projects in the Salvadoran Lutheran Church. Photo: Private

A living hope amid uncertainty in El Salvador
By
Ms. Laura Saravia

Justice
Climate
Youth
Blog
18 Mar 2025
Ellie Dieringer at the Women’s Human Rights Advocacy Training. Photo: LWF

Learning to be advocates of actionable hope
By
Ms Ellie Dieringer

Gender
Youth
Justice
Blog
05 Nov 2024
Marie-Anne Sliwinski with members of the local community in Angola. Photo: ELCA

Light and Hope in Angola
By
Marie Anne Sliwinski

Humanitarian
Justice
Blog
24 Jun 2024
Mx. Kayla Zopfi

International Women’s Day: Fury, love, curiosity
By
Mx. Kayla Zopfi

Justice
Gender
Blog
08 Mar 2023
LWF delegate to the UN Climate Conference COP26, Katarina Kuhnert from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, speaks on “Energy Transition – Deciding our Future”. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Canada: Decolonizing and investing in reconciliation is the best climate justice action
By
Ms Katarina Kuhnert

Youth
Climate
Churches
Blog
09 Mar 2022
Courtesy: Chuck Moore/Random Snaps Photography

Good trouble for a healthy planet
By
Ms Ruth Ivory-Moore

Youth
Theology
Climate
Blog
01 Oct 2021
Renato Valenga speaking at the training seminar for the 2018 National Youth Campaign. Photo: Martina Scherer

Climate justice: When the church speaks, people listen
By
Renato Valenga

Youth
Unity
Climate
Blog
18 Aug 2021
A group of refugees in Dosseye camp in southern Chad who are benefitting from LWF’s project for improved livelihood and access to land. (Photos taken before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic). All photos: LWF/Ophélie Schnoebelen

Welcoming strangers, finding friendship
By
Ophélie Schnoebelen, Rights-Based Approach program officer for LWF’s Department for World Service

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
Blog
10 Jun 2021
Zoraya Urbina, LWF Central America advocacy officer . Photo: LWF

A blanket that shelters us equally
By
Zoraya Urbina, Advocacy Officer in the LWF Central America country program

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
Blog
09 Apr 2021
LWF General Secretary, Rev. Dr Martin Junge. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

A year of resilience and hope amidst deep suffering
By
Rev. Dr Martin Junge

Communion
Churches
Justice
Blog
31 Mar 2021
LWF Council member Khulekani Sizwe Magwaza advocating for climate justice during COP25 in Madrid, Spain, in 2019. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

“An end to hunger, thirst, pollution and climate harm”
By
Khulekani Sizwe Magwaza, LWF Council Member and Green ELCSA Coordinator

Unity
Climate
Justice
Blog
21 Oct 2020
Jubilee for the Earth is the theme for the 2020 Season of Creation. Photo: Unsplash/David Köhler

The good management of God’s gifts
By
Therese Nocke, head of the Opérationelle Projet Environnement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon

Unity
Theology
Climate
Blog
06 Oct 2020

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