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Sarah Ewoi, with a South Sudanese refugee family at Nadapal center. Photo : LWF Kenya

Selfless service at the front line

Sarah Ewoi, Kenya, receives refugees from South Sudan

#WomenHumanitarians

Churches
Humanitarian
Gender
News
15 Aug 2019
Young people discussed migration, unemployment, climate and gender justice and the challenges of radical extremism at the International Youth Day event in the ecumenical Center, co-hosted by WCC, WCSF and LWF. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

LWF and partners observe International Youth Day

Youth “effectively contributing to the revival of churches and communities”

Youth
Climate
Communion
News
12 Aug 2019
Migrants from Central America at the Mexican border in Nov 2018. Many of them have been walking for 22 hours or more. Photo: LWF/Sean Hawkey

A “visionary and prophetic stand” to welcome the stranger

LWF welcomes ELCA declaration as a sanctuary church

Communion
Churches
Humanitarian
News
09 Aug 2019
LWF President Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa addressing the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly: All Photos: Will Nunnally/ELCA

Call for bold witness amid withdrawal and fragmentation

LWF President Musa addresses ELCA Churchwide Assembly

Governance
Communion
Churches
News
08 Aug 2019
Thuridur Björg Wiium Arnadottir is one of the youngest Lutheran pastors, serving in The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland. Photo: LWB/Albin Hillert

Iceland: Bright future for the church

Working with youth, serving the world, from the northernmost corner of the Lutheran communion 

Youth
Churches
News
02 Aug 2019
LWF President Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa (second left), LCCN Abuja Bishop Dr Benjamin Fuduta (fourth left) and SOH national coordinator Rev. Dr Lesmore G. Ezekiel (third right), with SOH Ambassadors of Hope (from left to right) Osaretin Ushoma, Happiness Ehime, Ngozi Nwachuku and Kenneth Bright. Photo: ALCINET/Felix Samari

Interfaith network to counter human trafficking launched in Nigeria

LWF President Musa: “human beings are not for sale”

Unity
Governance
Churches
News
02 Aug 2019
Around 400 people, including 50 pastors, participated in a silent march in support of Rev. Ulrich Gampert who has been fined for providing church asylum to a young Afghan refugee. Photo: Dekanat Kempten/Jutta Martin

Church asylum: When solidarity is criminalized

Penalty order issued against Bavarian pastor

Churches
Humanitarian
News
31 Jul 2019
Participants at the LWF advocacy training workshop in San José, Costa Rica, 14-16 July.  Photo: LWF/F. Wilches

LWF rolls out Advocacy Handbook in Central America

Strengthening local and national advocacy

Justice
Humanitarian
News
30 Jul 2019
As part of the events to mark the tenth anniversary of the coup, Lutherans held a public prayer service at the spot where the first fatal victim of the coup was killed. Riot police and army surrounded the event as a memorial cross was carried to the center of the capital city afterwards. All photos: LWF/S.Hawkey

Lutherans support struggle against repression, violence and poverty in Honduras

Ten years of searching for justice, peace and equality

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
News
29 Jul 2019
During his visit to „Mission EineWelt“ in Neuendettelsau, Germany, LWF President Panti Filibus Musa (2nd from right) also participated in the church service together with the center's directors (from left) Hanns und Gabriele Hoerschelmann during which Ulrike und Reinhard Hansen (Head: Mission and Intercultural Studies, Head: Africa Desk) concluded their duties with the center. Claus Heim (Regional Secretary for Tanzania and Kenya) also participated in the service. Photo: Mission EineWe

Tapping into untapped potentials

LWF President Musa: Waking the Giant empowers local actors to engage in SDGs

Governance
Churches
News
26 Jul 2019
Signatories of a new Spiritual Alliance for the Climate gather in Santiago, Chile on 21 July. Photo: Monserrat Madariaga/Lutheran Church in Chile

Faith groups in Chile launch spiritual climate alliance

Ecumenical and interfaith networks plan non-stop shared celebration, reflection and advocacy during COP25 

Youth
Unity
Climate
News
26 Jul 2019
Painter and consulting artist Dogari Samson teaches children how to make drawings as a way to share messages of peace. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert

’It’s all interlinked’ – LWF Cameroon supports livelihoods and education for CAR refugees

Education for peace and social cohesion 

Churches
News
24 Jul 2019

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