South Sudan Civil Society Coalition Validates Recommendations
(LWI) - Civil society has a role to play in helping to promote human rights in South Sudan, a prominent parliamentarian declared at a December training workshop held in the…
LWF peace committee mediates conflicts in refugee camp in Cameroon
“We thought about what had happened, what we had lost. We thought about family members who had been killed, and we got angry very easily,” says Bachirou Moussa, president…
(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has extended its condolences upon the death of Reverend Carlos Alfredo Duarte Voelker, Pastor President of the…
LWF Part of Cross-Sector Coalition Helping Refugee Settlements Go Digital
(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has joined a high-powered public-private coalition to transform refugee settlements into digitally-connected communities…
Returnees and host community members living and working together
(LWI) - Chad in central Africa continues to receive refugees from surrounding countries experiencing civil war, including the Central African Republic (CAR). Not but all…
LWF president meets government officials, partners and faith leaders in Myanmar
(LWI) - On his visit to Myanmar, LWF president Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa called on government officials to work for the benefit of all society. “Peace…
New manual enables participants to conduct training in local context
(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has released a Peace Messenger training manual. A first draft was developed last year and used in September 2017 with…
Skills enable young refugees to start a new life in back home
(LWI) - A protracted refugee situation in Dadaab, Kenya, means, that many young people are born in the camp or grow up there. As adults, they are encouraged to return to a…
Women in Central Western Europe discuss the gender gap and “MeToo”
(LWI) – Better conditions for women in church leadership positions, participation in decision-making bodies of the church, fair living and working conditions for women and…