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COP27: “The time to act is now!” At the end of the first week of COP27, negotiations at COP27 and governments’ commitments are insufficient to achieve the required goals, say LWF’s
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Colombia: Twenty years of working for reconciliation For twenty years, the LWF and its local member church has been working with the communities most affected by the armed conflict in Colombia.
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