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The Word of God: A signpost of hope in Advent
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27 Nov 2020
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27 Nov 2020
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LWF staff take part in house-to-house sensitization around gender-based violence in Kyangwali refugee settlement in western Uganda Photo: LWF/Uganda
Shadow Pandemic: educate and legislate to end sexual violence
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26 Nov 2020
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26 Nov 2020
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Christmas lights at the Ecumenical Center in 2019. Photo LWF/S Gallay
A singing communion in Advent 2020
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26 Nov 2020
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26 Nov 2020
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Vestina attending to a customer at her mobile money business in Kyangwali refugee settlement. Photo: LWF Uganda
From receiving rations to running a business
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25 Nov 2020
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25 Nov 2020
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Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea take part in activities for the 2019 campaign against Gender-Based Violence. Photo: ELCPNG/Asenath TUBIAN 
16 days to step up action against gender-based violence
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25 Nov 2020
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25 Nov 2020
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Lighting candles together. People of faith gather in a “Prayer for the Rainforest” as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, Spain, where faith-based organizations urged decision-makers to take action for climate justice. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Praying and acting for climate justice in the months until COP26
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24 Nov 2020
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24 Nov 2020
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Several hundred women from the Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia (GKPI) gathered at a church in Medan City, North Sumatra, on 19 August 2019 to hear about ways of implementing the Lutheran World Federation's (LWF) Gender Justice Policy in their own local context. Photo: GKPI
Indonesia: Concern about freedom of religion
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20 Nov 2020
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20 Nov 2020
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Video lectures used for the current seminar organized by the LWF Center Wittenberg usually begin at one of the familiar places in Luther’s town. Here is the market place with the statue of Martin Luther. Photo: LWF
Wittenberg: Online seminar on Lutheran theology
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19 Nov 2020
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19 Nov 2020
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Ahead of a summit in Saudi Arabia, Christian leaders write to the heads of G20 countries urging them to take action on debt relief and financial restructuring. Photo: Unsplash/Kyle Glenn
Appeal to G20: address debt crisis and save lives
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19 Nov 2020
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19 Nov 2020
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