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Felix Kalbe (center) takes medical supplies to Lviv in Ukraine as a volunteer driver. Photo: private 
Germany: With heart and mind – doing what is necessary for the people of Ukraine
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1 Apr 2022
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1 Apr 2022
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Emmanuel, a Nigerian student who fled from Ukraine and has been welcomed in Budapest by staff and students at the Theological Institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary. All photos: LWF/A. Hillert
Ukraine: “One minute we’re in school, the next we’re running for our lives”
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31 Mar 2022
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31 Mar 2022
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The refugee crisis in Korczowa, on the Polish-Ukrainian border, caused by the war in Ukraine. Photo: Filip Błażejowski
Hot meals and kind hugs: Polish welcome for Ukrainian refugees
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29 Mar 2022
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29 Mar 2022
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Refugee families from Ukraine make for the bus that is to take them from the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine and further into Slovakia, on 11 March. The Vyšné Nemecké border crossing connects Slovakia with the city of Uzhgorod in Ukraine. The crossing sees up to some 10,000 refugees arrive each day since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. A range of faith-based, civil society and humanitarian organizations provide immediate support to refugees as t
Slovakia: ’A test of our faith, in deed and in action’
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25 Mar 2022
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25 Mar 2022
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The vast majority of refugees fleeing across the Ukrainian border into Poland are women and children, including this mother and her young son. Photo: Filip Błażejowski
LWF fact-finding visit to Polish-Ukrainian border
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17 Mar 2022
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17 Mar 2022
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Ms. Rohini Devi Paswan, a resident of Dhanusa, drawing water from a newly constructed hand pump – Photo credit: Suman Rai/LCWS
Nepal: Fostering resilience through water, sanitation and health
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16 Mar 2022
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16 Mar 2022
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Archbishop Urmas Viilma, head of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Photo: LWF/A. Hillert
Estonian archbishop: We must be peace seekers 
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11 Mar 2022
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11 Mar 2022
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Ukrainian refugee woman Alona looks at supplies at one of the aid workers’ stands at Nyugati train station in Budapest. Alona, her 1.5-year-old son, and her mother arrived from Ukraine on 6 March, following a 26-hour long journey from the capital city Kyiv. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Hungary: Mobilizing support for Ukrainian refugees
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10 Mar 2022
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10 Mar 2022
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Dr Fadi Atrash, Acting CEO of Jerusalem’s Augusta Victoria Hospital. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson
A pioneer in cancer treatments for Palestinians
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9 Mar 2022
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9 Mar 2022
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