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A medical team from AVH supports a hospital in Gaza in 2018. Photo: LWF/ D. Nasser

Allow medical and humanitarian access to Gaza

Doctors from Augusta Victoria Hospital denied entry to provide lifesaving treatment for cancer patients

(LWI) - The ACT Palestine Forum, an ecumenical coalition of Christian churches and aid organizations, is calling on the Israeli…

Cover photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano

Highlights of LWF’s work in a unique year of COVID-19 solidarity

LWF Annual Report 2020 is available online

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Annual Report 2020 is available online. Under the theme, “Leave no one behind” it gives…

LWF World Service director Maria Immonen and former Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Michel Roy at the signing of a 2016 Declaration of Intent in MalmÃ¶, Sweden, to step up cooperation on humanitarian action, advocacy and development. Photo: LWF/M. Renaux

Vatican visit to mark next step from conflict to communion

LWF delegation to meet Pope Francis and extend agreement on closer cooperation with Caritas Internationalis

(LWI) - A delegation from the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) travels to Rome at the end of June for a meeting with Pope Francis…

Children demonstrate hand washing at Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. The LWF is the main implementer of education in the camp, and awareness-raising on hygiene is part of that work. The LWF has reinforced hygiene education to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the camp. Photo: LWF/P. Omagwa

World Refugee Day: Celebrating the gifts of refugees

“Promoting inclusion, as we work with marginalized communities”

(LWI) - Well over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, with the impact of the climate emergency continuing to be felt, and with multiple overlapping crises ongoing across the…

Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) and its diaconal agency, the Development and Social Services Commission (DASSC), works with LWF World Service to provide food distribution and cooking demonstrations to pregnant and lactating displaced women in Mesobo IDP camp. Photo: EECMY/G. Tesfay

Strengthen partnerships for humanitarian action

LWF joins ecumenical and interfaith partners in calling for stronger local leadership in crisis response

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) joined an ecumenical and interfaith group of international faith-based organizations on…

Thanks to collaboration between the LWF and IRW, locals have a fountain that provides safe drinking water. Photo: LWF/IRW

Three major faith-based organizations commit to Welcome the Stranger

HIAS joins LWF and IRW to co-host ‘Welcoming the Stranger, Shaping the Future’ conference on World Refugee Day 2022

(LWI) - Three of the world’s leading Jewish, Islamic and Christian humanitarian organisations are teaming up to strengthen…

The Church of Sweden to present an official apology to the SÃ¡mi People for historical injustices. Issued eight commitments to reconciliation. Photo: Magnus Aronson / Icon

Church of Sweden to make public apology, commitments to Indigenous people of Sweden

Jackelén: “In failing the Sámi people we have also failed ourselves and God”

(LWI) - Later this year, the Church of Sweden (CoS) will make an official public apology for its historical role in…

LWFâs World Service Department director, Maria Immonen and the Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis, Aloysius John. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson

Lutherans and Catholics: Common Vision for joint service

LWF’s World Service and Caritas Internationalis recommit to “stand together for the sake of the neighbor”

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and Caritas Internationalis (CI), the global…

A woman entrepreneur sews cloth face masks in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Photo: LWF/Nu Nu Aye

Annual report shows how LWF adapted its humanitarian and development work to COVID-19 pandemic

Learning “how to operate in the middle of a new global threat”

(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has published an annual report highlighting the outcomes of humanitarian response and development work in a unique year of the…

Residents from Kakuma refugee camp in northwest Kenya pose for a photo after taking part in an LWF-run workshop to write poems for the âI am Hopeâ publication. Jackline Irankunda is pictured in the front row, furthest to the right. Photo: LWF/O. Schnoebelen

Poems give voice to refugees’ dignity and hope

Launch of ‘I am Hope’ poems celebrates courage and talents of refugees living in Kenya

(LWI) - Refugees from Somalia, Burundi and Uganda took center stage during a webinar marking the launch of a volume of poetry that showcases their…