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Goma Timalsina tends her vegetables. Using savings from a cooperative set up by the LWF,  Timalsina has invested in agriculture and livestock. Photo: Santosh KC, ICDO

Savings scheme boosts confidence

LWF cooperatives transforming lives in Nepal

Churches
Humanitarian
Gender
News
19 Jul 2018
LWF encourages member churches to apply for scholarships. Photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano

LWF call for scholarship applications

Supporting students of theology, and development and diakonia

Theology
Churches
News
11 Jul 2018
Bishop Ulrich and Pope Francis during the audience in the Vatican. Photo: VaticanPress

“A momentum which is irreversible”

German Lutherans meet LWF member church and Pope Francis in Italy

Unity
Churches
Humanitarian
News
06 Jun 2018
The headquarters and the Humanitarium of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland / Creative Commons
28 Jun 2018

Going Locally, Safely: the localisation agenda and security risk Management

Churches
Humanitarian
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The document on ecumenical diakonia is meant to clarify the understanding of diakonia and provide a common platform for acting and reflecting together. – The Vesper Church in Stuttgart has been a venue for local diaconal action. Photo: Gottfried Stoppel

New ecumenical study aims to strengthen diakonia

Forms basis for training, dialogue and cooperation

Churches
Humanitarian
News
24 May 2018
Beneficiaries of the GNC/LWF scholarship program: (from left) Daniel Jara (Ecuador), Elizabeth Silayo (Tanzania), Michelle Wong (Malaysia) and Sebastian Dallmann (Germany). Photo: LWF/A. Weyermüller

“Despite all our differences we are one”

GNC/LWF scholarship-holders meet in Hanover

Unity
Communion
Churches
News
27 Apr 2018
Young people with disabilities receive support and therapy, such as painting lessons, by a small Lutheran congregation in Tolyatti, Russia. Photo: Marcus Mockler, epd -Bild

Lutherans in Russia assist people with disabilities

Diaconal initiative brings joy, challenges stereotypes

Churches
News
10 Apr 2018
Rev Robert Goyek Daga, in front of the millennium Cathedral that his church is building in the center of Garoua town. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

Diakonia and dialogue for peace

Lutherans in Cameroon face Boko Haram terror and climate change

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Climate
Churches
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06 Feb 2018
A family in Nget Chaung-2 IDP camp in Pauk Taw, Myanmar. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

International NGOs in Myanmar call for protection of refugees

Full and equal rights of returnees should be guaranteed

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
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14 Dec 2017

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