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Outgoing Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén who stepped down from her leadership role on 30 October. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Vital voice for the church in the public space
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31 Oct 2022
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31 Oct 2022
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Since 2011, young people have represented the LWF at the UN climate change conferences COP, advocating for climate and intergenerational justice. Last year they also participated in the climate march during COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Forty young climate activists call for results at COP27 climate conference
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26 Oct 2022
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26 Oct 2022
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Teacher Natalia Koval leads an online class in textile handiwork at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Ukraine: Bringing students back to school
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25 Oct 2022
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25 Oct 2022
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Strengthening regional cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe
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24 Oct 2022
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24 Oct 2022
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Staff from multi-purpose cash assistance centres across Poland – established to support incoming refugees to Poland from Ukraine – gather in Bytom for a full-week training in 'community-based psychosocial support' provided through ACT Church of Sweden. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Poland: Community centers for Ukrainian refugees and host communities
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21 Oct 2022
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21 Oct 2022
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LWF’s President and General Secretary are in Bratislava for the first Church Leadership Consultation in the Central Eastern Europe since the pandemic, focusing on the church’s role in promoting peace and reconciliation in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Central East European leaders meet to discuss peace, reconciliation
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20 Oct 2022
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20 Oct 2022
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The Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa meets for its 11th Assembly and celebrates 30-years of communion in the subregion. Photo: LUCS/R. Mofulatsi
Churches journey together in Southern Africa
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20 Oct 2022
20 Oct 2022
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Scripture scholars Rev. Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, associate pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church, and Rev. Dr Jean Koulagna, director of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology Al Mowafaqa in Rabat. Photo: Montage LWF/S. Gallay 
Webinar series marks 500 years of Bible translation
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19 Oct 2022
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19 Oct 2022
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10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A man walks through the rubble and shards of glass on the street of Vulytsya Tereshchenkivsʹka in central Kyiv, which hours earlier was hit by a Russian missile. Photo: LWF/ Albin Hillert
Ukraine: Lutherans in Kyiv help people in need
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18 Oct 2022
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18 Oct 2022
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