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Sue Cutting, a foster mum of seven who lost her house in the fires, was delighted to receive food relief from Adelaide Hills Lutheran and community volunteers. Photos: LCA

Australia: Consoling, helping, connecting

Lutherans support those suffering losses during the bushfire crisis

Climate
Communion
Churches
News
23 Jan 2020
Pogue Community, Bojayá (Chocó). Photo: LWF/ G. Moreno

Concern over situation in Bojayá

LWF Colombia calls upon government to maintain security and human rights

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
News
22 Jan 2020
During the weeks of Vesper Church it is very busy in Stuttgart's St. Leonhard’s Church. Photo: ELK-WUE/Monika Johna

Vesper Church: food for body and soul

Open doors during the winter months

Churches
News
20 Jan 2020
Rev. Leonardo Schindler, Pastor President of the Evangelical Church of the River Plate. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson

Argentina: Modelling God’s love, inclusion and mercy

Voices from the Communion: President Leonardo Schindler of the Evangelical Church of the River Plate

Theology
Communion
Churches
News
17 Jan 2020
Bishop Deborah Hutterer of the Grand Canyon Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In this Voices from the Communion interview, she talks about the church’s ministry of serving migrants, changing populist rhetoric, and being open to change. Photo: LWF/A.Weyermülle

USA: God’s gifts to care for our neighbor

Voices from the Communion: Bishop Deborah Hutterer, ELCA

Youth
Communion
Churches
News
20 Dec 2019
Refugees at Nadapal transit centre close to the South Sudanese border. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

Refugees living in Kenya speak up at UN

LWF delegation brings refugee voices to UPR pre-session

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
News
18 Dec 2019
The UNHCR

Award to church in Costa Rica for refugee response

"Fundamental actor in humanitarian response”

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
News
16 Dec 2019
LWF participants at COP25 – among them, representatives of LWF member churches in Latin America – join ecumenical partners in illustrating the lack of balance in finance of the global climate response, where most of the finance is put into mitigation, some into adaptation, but very little into the so-called loss and damage, even though 'that's where the people are'. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert

“We must hear the cry of the Earth”

Latin American participants share COP25 experience

Youth
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Communion
News
13 Dec 2019
A woman works in the fields of Ouaddai Province in Eastern Chad. Photo: LWF/Allahramadji Gueldjim

16 Days: Working for women’s economic justice

LWF promotes empowerment through skills and leadership training, access to land and seeds 

Youth
Climate
Churches
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10 Dec 2019

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