(LWI) - A career with the LWF provides not only the opportunity to carry out work that is worthwhile, but in a large number of cases offers a meaningful professional path.
GENEVA, 30August 2016 (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) churches around the world currently bring together more than 74 million members. This represents an increase of 2.1 million since 2013, with membership generally growing…
ARADIB(Chad)/ GENEVA, 1 September 2016 (LWI) - ‘‘Hold the rope, firmly, pull, pull!’ Djouma Ousmane shouts as he paddles a small barge.Standing on the edge of the river Bar Azoum, a young man pulls a rope tied to the…
ADJUMANI (Uganda)/ GENEVA, 7 September 2016 (LWI) – Six weeks after an outbreak of violence in South Sudan forced tens of thousands to flee, the situation of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda is still critical. More than 70,000 have fled…
Bukoba Lutheran Bishop: Many people are “deeply shaken”
(LWI) – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) together with its diaconal arm, and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) are reaching out to families affected by the 5.7…
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…
