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LWF welcomes new UN climate report, urges ambitious action to protect the most vulnerable Climate change is real, lives and livelihoods are already threatened
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Supporting marginalized people to organize and empower themselves Report on LWF’s rights-based approach work in 2020
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Annual report shows how LWF adapted its humanitarian and development work to COVID-19 pandemic Learning “how to operate in the middle of a new global threat”
Lutherans and Catholics: Common Vision for joint service LWF’s World Service and Caritas Internationalis recommit to “stand together for the sake of the neighbor”
Church of Sweden to make public apology, commitments to Indigenous people of Sweden Jackelén: “In failing the Sámi people we have also failed ourselves and God”
Strengthen partnerships for humanitarian action LWF joins ecumenical and interfaith partners in calling for stronger local leadership in crisis response
Three major faith-based organizations commit to Welcome the Stranger HIAS joins LWF and IRW to co-host ‘Welcoming the Stranger, Shaping the Future’ conference on World Refugee Day 2022