Growing together in faith and solidarity

This year’s theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, “You shall love the Lord your God ... and your neighbor…

Reflections from one of the participants in a summer course at the Strasbourg Institute for Ecumenical Research

As 30 participants from 20 different…

World Humanitarian Day: Field staff reflect on work in Ukraine

I have headed humanitarian missions in hostile work environments such as Somalia, Rwanda, and…

Responding to the Sudan crisis in Chad

I work with LWF in the department of Assoungha specifically in the refugee and returnee sites of Adré, Ourang, Ambilia, Dize-…

By Grace Magu, Kenya

Living close to a ‘sport of kings’ racecourse in Nairobi, Kenya brings to mind  George Owen’s book –The Animal farm; whose storyline evolves around behaviors illustrating that all animals are not equal and if…

By Reuben Mete

Finding solutions to Papua New Guinea and South Pacific difficulties today and into 2050 does not lie in words and more words but in solidarity in word and deed.

I’m humble by the opportunity…

By Klaus Rieth

Participants of the men and women’s pre-assembly report that the speech of LWF staff member Elaine Neuenfeldt was very impressive.

Neuenfeldt, LWF secretary for Women in Church and Society (WICAS) reported…

At an information session about the present situation in Syria, Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, LWF World Service Global Program Coordinator, informed about the present situation in the war and crisis-shaken Syria.

The World Service staff member…

By Klaus Rieth

I liked the presentation of the local churches at the beginning of the assembly.

The Korean churches are so historically sensitive! So all participants got a lecture in history and could learn a lot.

Also…

By Klaus Rieth

Walter Altmann, moderator of the WCC Central Committee, raised the issue of the "prophetic voice of WCC" and asked self critically, whether the WCC has been in the past too reserved to questions like the perverse…