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Staff from ACT Alliance member Hungarian Interchurch Aid offer food to a young refugee at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries. Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Churches tackling the problem of populism
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26 Apr 2018
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26 Apr 2018
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A woman clears a plot of land in Moxico, Angola. Although the land belongs to the community, village chiefs can lease it to outside investors. All photos: LWF/ C. Kästner
Securing land and livelihoods in Angola
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26 Apr 2018
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26 Apr 2018
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The statement calls for social and climate justice, and support for climate change-hit countries. Climate change can affect weather severely. A tropical storm in El Salvador left devastated fields in its wake. Photo: LWF/M. Boulogne
“Fighting against the commodification of everything”
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25 Apr 2018
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25 Apr 2018
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24 April 2018, Bogotá, Colombia: Welcome by local Colombian churches on opening day. The Global Christian Forum gathers in Bogotá on 24-27 April 2018 under the theme of
Global Christian Forum: “Let mutual love continue”
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25 Apr 2018
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25 Apr 2018
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Dr Ojot Miru Ojulu has been appointed new Assistant General Secretary for International Affairs and Human Rights
“We must speak out against injustice”
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25 Apr 2018
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25 Apr 2018
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A mother and her child in one of the LWF health centers. The child is being treated for severe malnourishment. Photo: LWF DRC
13 million Congolese in need of support
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23 Apr 2018
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23 Apr 2018
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Early in the morning, a boy runs amid the tents in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 20,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria, but its numbers are growing. Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Be the voices and hands of hope!
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19 Apr 2018
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19 Apr 2018
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Iris J. Benesch, 1956-2018. Photo: LWF/Helen Putsman Penet
Iris J. Benesch 1956-2018
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18 Apr 2018
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18 Apr 2018
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Campaigning for young congregation council members in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria: Synod President Annekathrin Preidel, Lisa Schaube and Paula Tiggemann. Photo: Johannes Kurt Minkus
Young Germans urged to run for congregation councils
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17 Apr 2018
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17 Apr 2018
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