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LWF team leader Mark Mullan with UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi in Kharkiv. Photo: LWF/ Anatolyi Nazarenko

UN High Commissioner Grandi visits shelter project in Kharkiv

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi visited a shelter reconstruction project that LWF has been implementing for UN

Humanitarian
News
24 Jan 2024
Sieglinde Weinbrenner, on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Photo: LWF/ Albin Hillert

"Devastating situation” in Gaza, says LWF representative

Three months after the Hamas attack on Israel and the start of the war on Gaza, cancer patients are stranded at the LWF’s Augusta Victoria Hospital

Humanitarian
News
23 Jan 2024
Three LWF scholarship holders at the Thirteenth Assembly in Krakow with copies of the recent publication ‘Journeys from the Crossroads’ which showcases stories on “living, studying and doing theology.” Photo: LWF/J.C. Valeriano

LWF approves new theology and diakonia scholarships

Over the coming year, 127 new candidates from LWF member churches will receive scholarships to study theology or diakonia and development

Communion
Churches
News
19 Jan 2024
The inaugural cohort of TEIL began their program on 9 October 2023, Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the USA. The program was launched with in-person classes, an opening ceremony, and a celebration attended by leaders across the ELCA. Photo: PLTS

United States: New theological education program for Indigenous leaders

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has launched a new theological education program for Indigenous leaders.

Theology
Communion
News
18 Jan 2024
The Good Samaritan, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. Photo: JESUS MAFA

Good Samaritan as a guide to ecumenical engagement

Christians in Burkina Faso work together to witness to gospel of unity in a country “teetering on the edge of collapse”

Unity
News
17 Jan 2024
LWF Statement

After 100 days of war in Gaza

After 100 days of war in Gaza, LWF is deeply concerned that there is no solution on the horizon.

Justice
Humanitarian
News
15 Jan 2024
Space for exchange and praying together to promote communion-building: At the beginning of the new year, church leaders of the Africa Region met for an online meeting. That new format supports in-person meetings like the Africa Pre-Assembly held in May last year. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Africa Region: Church leaders hold their first online fellowship meeting

Creating a space for communion-building, exchange and praying together at the beginning of a new year was the aim of the new online meeting format

Communion
Churches
News
15 Jan 2024
Rev. Ofelia Dávila Llimpe

Peru: Focusing on social justice and calling for action given societal realities

In this Voices from the Communion interview, the Pastor President of the Lutheran Church of Peru, Rev.

Communion
Churches
Gender
News
12 Jan 2024
RoNEL Wittenberg 2023

RoNEL: Reflecting on the episcopal ministry

The annual retreat of newly elected church leaders (RoNEL) gives bishops and church presidents a valuable opportunity to strengthen their understan

Communion
Churches
News
09 Jan 2024
Ethiopia Christmas

Ethiopia: Christmas joy for Tigrayan family

For the first time in three years, Abrehet Kalayu looks forward to a joyous and bountiful Christmas with family, friends and neighbors on 7 January

News
05 Jan 2024
Saxony youth planting trees

Saxony: Bishop and youth plant 500 trees together

Preserving habitats for people and nature and experiencing hope and energy in the process is what Bishop Bilz and youth from the Evangelical Luther

Youth
Climate
Churches
News
04 Jan 2024
The message of God’s love calls us to go out into the world and to serve all people." In the photo, LWF member church delegates take part in a joint exercise, prior to the start of the Thirteenth Assembly in Kraków, Poland, last September. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

New Year Message: Let all you do be done in love

As another year draws to a close, LWF General Secretary Rev.

Governance
Communion
Churches
News
28 Dec 2023

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