After more than two weeks of intense negotiations, COP27 closed with significant successes. Much more work is needed to ensure justice for the most vulnerable.
At the end of the first week of COP27, negotiations at COP27 and governments’ commitments are insufficient to achieve the required goals, say LWF’s delegates who have engaged in several advocacy and networking actions in Egypt.
LWF's main calls at COP27 focus on rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, massively scaling up climate finance, making significant progress on climate adaptation, and creating a new mechanism to mitigate loss and damage from climate change.…
Forty young climate activists from LWF’s member churches will represent the global communion at the COP27 conference of the United Nations in Egypt in November. They will bring local and regional concerns to the global level and take their…
Praying with Pope Francis, meeting with dialogue partners and presenting Lutheran perspectives at an international symposium are all on the agenda for LWF’s Prof. Dirk Lange during a visit to Rome for Christian Unity week
The theme for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity emphasizes the way in which shared worship must always go hand in hand with joint efforts to promote justice and dismantle systems of oppression.
Faith gives our everyday life depth that takes us beyond the material boundaries of the world. We live in relationship with a living God and we have ethical ground to stand on. Still, we are confined to the natural world of wonder and beauty, but…
Proclaiming the Gospel of Christ by caring for our common home
Climate is changing. The atmosphere of the public debate on environmental protection is also changing. COP 24 clearly showed that conversations about joint actions to protect…