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Sarah Ewoi, with a South Sudanese refugee family at Nadapal center. Photo : LWF Kenya
Selfless service at the front line
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15 Aug 2019
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15 Aug 2019
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Young people discussed migration, unemployment, climate and gender justice and the challenges of radical extremism at the International Youth Day event in the ecumenical Center, co-hosted by WCC, WCSF and LWF. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner
LWF and partners observe International Youth Day
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12 Aug 2019
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12 Aug 2019
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Migrants from Central America at the Mexican border in Nov 2018. Many of them have been walking for 22 hours or more. Photo: LWF/Sean Hawkey
A “visionary and prophetic stand” to welcome the stranger
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9 Aug 2019
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9 Aug 2019
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LWF President Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa addressing the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly: All Photos: Will Nunnally/ELCA
Call for bold witness amid withdrawal and fragmentation
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8 Aug 2019
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8 Aug 2019
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LWF President Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa (second left), LCCN Abuja Bishop Dr Benjamin Fuduta (fourth left) and SOH national coordinator Rev. Dr Lesmore G. Ezekiel (third right), with SOH Ambassadors of Hope (from left to right) Osaretin Ushoma, Happiness Ehime, Ngozi Nwachuku and Kenneth Bright. Photo: ALCINET/Felix Samari
Interfaith network to counter human trafficking launched in Nigeria
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2 Aug 2019
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2 Aug 2019
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Thuridur Björg Wiium Arnadottir is one of the youngest Lutheran pastors, serving in The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland. Photo: LWB/Albin Hillert
Bright future for the church in Iceland
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2 Aug 2019
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2 Aug 2019
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Around 400 people, including 50 pastors, participated in a silent march in support of Rev. Ulrich Gampert who has been fined for providing church asylum to a young Afghan refugee. Photo: Dekanat Kempten/Jutta Martin
Church asylum: When solidarity is criminalized
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31 Jul 2019
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31 Jul 2019
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Participants at the LWF advocacy training workshop in San José, Costa Rica, 14-16 July. Photo: LWF/F. Wilches
LWF rolls out Advocacy Handbook in Central America
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30 Jul 2019
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30 Jul 2019
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As part of the events to mark the tenth anniversary of the coup, Lutherans held a public prayer service at the spot where the first fatal victim of the coup was killed. Riot police and army surrounded the event as a memorial cross was carried to the center of the capital city afterwards. All photos: LWF/S.Hawkey
Lutherans support struggle against repression, violence and poverty in Honduras
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29 Jul 2019
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29 Jul 2019
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