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The document on ecumenical diakonia is meant to clarify the understanding of diakonia and provide a common platform for acting and reflecting together. – The Vesper Church in Stuttgart has been a venue for local diaconal action. Photo: Gottfried Stoppel
New ecumenical study aims to strengthen diakonia
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24 May 2018
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24 May 2018
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The medical team about to set off from Augusta Victoria Hospital. Photo: LWF
LWF medical team tending to injured in Gaza
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17 May 2018
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17 May 2018
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A Laotian woman with a piglet provided by the LWF. Photo: LWF
Growing vegetables, raising livestock in Laos
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16 May 2018
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16 May 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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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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A man plays football with his children in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan, while another man, wounded in fighting in Syria, looks on. Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
LWF and ecumenical partners link to #WithRefugees solidarity tour
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6 Apr 2018
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6 Apr 2018
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Selling waffles, a favorite dish, after worship was one way to raise to money for children in Uganda. Photo: Stefan Mar Gunnlaugsson / The Evangelical Church of Iceland
Icelandic Youth collect for Uganda
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28 Mar 2018
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28 Mar 2018
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