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Cover photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano
Highlights of LWF’s work in a unique year of COVID-19 solidarity
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10 Jun 2021
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10 Jun 2021
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In the LWFs women’s networks, lay and ordained women strengthen and support one another in prayer and action. Photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano
Evaluation and outlook for women's network in Central and Western Europe
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10 Jun 2021
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10 Jun 2021
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Global faith leaders are calling for additional funding and bold steps to increase production of vaccines in order to ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines. Photo: Braňo via Unsplash.
COVID-19: Faith leaders urge G7 to end vaccine inequality
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9 Jun 2021
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9 Jun 2021
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A medical team from AVH supports a hospital in Gaza in 2018. Photo: LWF/ D. Nasser
Allow medical and humanitarian access to Gaza
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8 Jun 2021
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8 Jun 2021
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Erik Siegl from Czech Diaconia with LWF’s Caroline Tveoy and staff from the World Service team in Jordan outside the Aman community center in Zarqa. All photos: LWF/Jordan
Supporting Syria’s refugees, ten years on
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8 Jun 2021
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8 Jun 2021
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria went on a joint journey of discovery of their Lutheran identities. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Lutheran identity in Germany today - a journey of discovery
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7 Jun 2021
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7 Jun 2021
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This sculpture, entitled ‘the refugee ship’, was made by Danish artist Jens Galschiot and exhibited at Nyhavn in Denmark.Photo: blondinrikard/Flickr (CC-BY)
LWF urges Denmark to reconsider changes to refugee law
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4 Jun 2021
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4 Jun 2021
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada National Bishop Susan Johnson pictured in 2017 at the LWF Twelfth Assembly in Windhoek, Namibia. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Canada: In mission for others, when church and home feel the same
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4 Jun 2021
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4 Jun 2021
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LWF General Secretary Martin Junge speaking at the farewell-event for the outgoing President of Bread for the World, Cornelia Füllkrug-Weizel. Photo: Hermann Bredehorst/Brot für die Welt
Compassion with a drive towards justice
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4 Jun 2021
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4 Jun 2021
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