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Image Rodolfo Christian Catunta Uturunco, National Youth Coordinator, Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Photo: Private Devotion: a starting point for transformation Come, Let Us Celebrate Together – Youth reflections on climate, gender justice, and migration I joined The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Latin America and the…
Image Allanah Carron inside the United Nations headquarters in New York. Photo: Lutheran Office for World Community Learning to build a more equitable world A young participant in the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women shares top takeaways from her time in New York I was born and raised in Paramaribo, the…
Image Prof. Dr Dirk Lange speaking at the LWF Assembly in Namibia. Photo: A.Hillert/LWF “Ecumenism at the heart of life” 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…
Image Participants, with Hansbauer front row, second from left, at the 2023 summer course of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg. Photo: Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg Strasbourg: searching for a common vocabulary Reflections from one of the participants in a summer course at the Strasbourg Institute for Ecumenical Research As 30 participants from 20 different…
Image Mark Mullan, the LWF Team Leader in Ukraine, meets a family in Kharkiv whose apartment was damaged by a missile strike. LWF will renovate this family’s home. Photo: LWF/ Anatoliy Nazarenko “One of the most challenging countries I ever worked in” World Humanitarian Day: Field staff reflect on work in Ukraine I have headed humanitarian missions in hostile work environments such as Somalia, Rwanda, and…
Image Roger Kalimira, in front of a water bladder he helped install. Photo: LWF/ M. Idjawo Water in the desert 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-…
Image Rama Ramanathan, second from left, shares ideas with participants at the LWF Lay Leaders’ Seminar in Geneva. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay Two paintings, one global communion A participant in LWF’s 6th international seminar for lay leaders reflects on his experience and lessons learned “Church” conjures a…
Image Hania Walica, recipient of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s International Women Leaders scholarship. Starting out on the road to gender justice advocate A young Polish delegate at the Commission on the Status of Women shares her story of overcoming imposter syndrome This year I have had an opportunity that I never thought I would have. For the last five or six years…
Image WCC 10th Assembly, Women & Men'ÂÂs Pre-Assembly. Opening Prayer. Photo: Peter Williams/WCC Gender issues in the focus 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…
Image A Syrian girl in one of LWF's vocational training workshops. Photo: LWF/Mats Wallerstedt LWF World Service about Syria 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…
