Combining education and protection for girls in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya
(LWI) – It’s the beginning of a new year for Anek (16, name changed), a South Sudanese refugee in Kakuma refugee camp. As one of 4,000 secondary school students in…
(LWI) – The effects of climate change are experienced across the globe: rising sea level rise, the number of tropical storms is increasing, fertile land is endangered by floods or drought,…
(LWI) – “This is the largest refugee crisis in Africa, and the third largest in the world. How many thousands have to come, how many people have to die until the international community wakes up?” – Jesse Kamstra, country representative of The…
LWF supports survivors of gender-based violence in South Sudan
(LWI) Amina* was lying under a palm tree when a caseworker from The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) found her. The teen had been covering herself with palm leaves after…
Online voting of International Preaching Contest started
(LWI) A young pastor will hold the sermon at the closing worship in the Twelfth assembly of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Namibia on 16 May. Young ordained Lutherans from…
The Namibian churches and the LWF played a vital role during Namibia’s struggle for independence. Under South African rule, the policy was to divide people along racial and tribal lines. The churches were virtually the only organizations that…
Three days to three weeks – that’s the length of time refugees from South Sudan describe taking to get to north Uganda. From the border onwards, they are being met by aid organizations such as The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) which register…
LWF urges Human Rights Council to work with religious leaders
(LWI) - For members of one Lutheran diocese in Tanzania, there is no place for the persecution of people with albinism - an affliction that blights not only their community and…
Wenghelawit Bete Kristian Ertra The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Eritreas Église évangélique luthérienne d'Erythrée Iglesia Evangélica Luterana de Eritrea
Afiliaciones
Comunión Luterana en África Central y Oriental Fraternidad de Consejos Cristianos e Iglesias de los Grandes Lagos y el Cuerno de África
