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How can religions wisely build peace in our societies?

The Lutheran World Federation organized its first interfaith “Peace Messengers Training” in September 2017. The participants gained skills and tools on advocacy,…

Called to be a daily peacemaker

The Lutheran World Federation organized its first interfaith “Peace Messengers Training” in September 2017. The participants gained skills and tools on advocacy, negotiation and…

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: Larry Madrigal stands in front of the stained glass mural that inspired his mother at the 1994 CSW. Photo: L Madrigal

Half of humanity activating its rights

LWF delegate Larry José Madrigal blogs from the world’s largest gathering on women’s human rights

The United Nations is a metaphor for the world in all its diversity, complexity and contradiction.

Thousands of women and hundreds of…

Ranjita Borgoary gives a presentation at a meeting associated with the Commission on the Status of Women. Photo: LWF

Proud to tell people LWF has a gender justice policy

LWF Council Member Ranjita Borgoary writes about what it means to participate United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women

A woman from a village never dreams of participating in a UN meeting. But a dream has come true.

It is a…

EspÃ©rence manages to get her son, Divin, to stand still just long enough for a photo before he and his friends go back to playing their own version of the World Cup. EspÃ©rence is reaping the benefits of a vegetable garden she planted, with support from the LWF. Photo: LWF/Pablo Lo Moro

Peace is a shot on goal

Impressions of Burundi through the World Cup cycle

As football fanatics were watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup, large-scale violence had already broken out in Burundi and elsewhere in the African Great Lakes region. In…

Ms Gloria Samosir during a side event at COP 24 in Katowice, Poland. Photo: LWF/Sean Hawkey

The down-to-earth truth: Troubling times on Lake Toba

The idea of “climate change” rings ‘commonsensically’ familiar to subsistence farmers on Samosir Island of Lake Toba in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. The expression conveying climate change in the local language of Toba Batak—“…

LWF COP 24 delegate Mr Wylie Cook, takes part in a march during the 2018 UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland. Photo: LWF/Sean Hawkey

Climate finance: A moral challenge

After listening to a plenary discussion at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Katowice, Poland, I realized not only the moral challenge of climate change, but also the moral challenge of our policies in addressing this…

Women of the Mumanga community gather outside the classroom where their Creative Expression workshop took place. All photos: LWF/O.Schnoebelen

Illuminating a village

Workshops in Angola restore dignity to impoverished farmers

LWF/o.Schnoebelen

One of the young men in Chinganga…

Deported Jews arrive at the concentration camp of Auschwitz / Birkenau / 1944. Credit: Fortepan / Lili Jacob

Asking forgiveness for the deportation of Hungary’s Holocaust victims

A reflection on asking forgiveness and the misuse of Christianity to spread hatred today

The deportation of Hungarian Jews started 75 years ago. Human beings, from infants to the elderly, were crowded into cattle cars…

Ms. Eva-Christina Nilsson. Photo: LWF

Taking responsibility for God’s creation

Youth lead the way in combating climate change

In the 1970s, there was a man named Ebbe Arvidsson, who used to come to this building […