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Climate Justice

LWF vice president for Central Eastern Europe Archbishop Urmas Viilma. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

“Cooperation is needed today, not isolation”

LWF greetings to Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions

Unity
Theology
Governance
News
12 Oct 2018
Symbolic tree planting in the Luthergarten in Wittenberg, Germany, during the global young reformers meeting, Workshop Wittenberg, in 2015. Photo: LWF/Marko Schoeneberg

Climate justice: time to ramp up efforts

Statement from the LWF General Secretary

Youth
Climate
News
10 Oct 2018
LWF Council member Bishop Dr Jensen Seyenkulo. Photo: LWF / Albin Hillert

Liberia: “We celebrated like one family”

Voices from the Communion: LWF Council member Bishop Dr Jensen Seyenkulo

Climate
Communion
Churches
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21 Sep 2018
Wollastonite mine near Garies, South Africa. Photo: jbdodane (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Protecting the environment, protecting people’s well-being
By
Khulekani S. Magwaza

Climate
Blog
19 Sep 2018
About 200 people gathered outside Minneapolis City Hall in October 2016 to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline which will pass upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. Along with the threat to their water supply, the tribe claims the pipeline will destroy burial sites and sacred places. Photo: Fibonacci Blue (CC BY 2.0)

Season of Creation – A Native American Voice on Loss and Damage
By
Rev. Joann Conroy

Climate
Humanitarian
Blog
12 Sep 2018
Children of the Seraphic Institute, joining in advocating for climate justice. Photo: LWF/ C. Rimmer

Season of Creation - From Assisi to Katowice
By
Rev. Dr Chad Rimmer

Unity
Theology
Climate
Blog
07 Sep 2018
Season the Creation starts on 1 September with an Ecumeical prayer in Assisi, Italy. Photo: Peter K Burian (CC-BY-SA)

Christians globally unite in call for eco-justice

General Secretary Junge: “we need a faithful return to our deepest human identity”

Unity
Theology
Climate
News
01 Sep 2018
Wind turbines generate the green power needed by the parishes and church administration of the EKM, Germany. Photo: epd-bild/Steffen Schellhorn

Church’s power needs covered by self-produced wind energy

Evangelical Church in Central Germany wind turbines set to cover all parishes and diakonia institutions

Climate
Churches
News
08 Aug 2018
Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Italy. Photo: Peter K Burian (CC BY-SA 4.0)
31 Aug – 1 Sep 2018

Assisi Ecumenical Prayer for Creation

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