LWF horticulture classes and small loans improve lives

(LWI) - Beans, cabbage, and aubergines. Joy tends all her plants with care. The 19-year-old looks after every bean plant, however small. Because, if it does not thrive, there will be…

LWF National Committee calls for peace and harmony after terrorist attacks

(LWI) - Following terror attacks at three churches and a police station in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Sunday and Monday, the National Committee of the Lutheran World…

“We feel their pain and stand with them”

(LWI) - A team of doctors and nurses from the Lutheran World Federation’s Augusta Victoria Hospital, in Jerusalem, is in Gaza supporting medical teams tending to Palestinians wounded by Israeli…

(LWI) Empowering the churches for mission was the focus of the recent leadership conference of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches in the North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean regions.

The conference took place…

Key messages emerge from the Lutheran Council in Africa

(LWI) - The Lutheran Council in Africa (LUCA) has made a series of resolutions following its recent meeting in Accra…

Forms basis for training, dialogue and cooperation

(LWI) - ACT, LWF, and WCC are collaborating on a document on Ecumenical Diakonia, aiming to clarify the understanding of diakonia and provide a common platform for acting and reflecting…

Starting a new life with a church family in Germany

(LWI) - The bells were what appealed to Adam Gnany. As a boy in Baghdad he had watched men tugging a rope to get the bells to ring. Today Gnany lives in Stuttgart. When he slips into the…

Actively working for justice, peace and reconciliation in the public space

(LWI) The presiding bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland has been awarded the…

LWF youth represented at Catholic pre-synod meeting

(LWI) - Young Catholics pose the same questions of the church and their role within the church as young people of any other confession. "It is not something confessional, it is not that…