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LWF World Service staff welcome visitors at the Heaven's Tent in Wittenberg. Photo: LWF/C.Kaestner

Connecting refugees across 70 years and five continents
By
Cornelia Kaestner

Blog
24 Jul 2017
LWF member church representatives from Africa and Asia at the meeting to review HICD frameworks. Photo: LWF/S. Lawrence.
21 Jul – 24 Jul 2017

Joint Asia and Africa review meeting on Human and Institutional Capacity Development Frameworks

Churches
Event
Photo: Susan Muis (center), LWF Regional program Officer for CAR, DRC and Chad, speaks at the NGO briefing in the Palais des Nations. Photo: LWF/Peter Kenny

“An alarming situation”

NGO Briefing to UN member states about Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo

Justice
Humanitarian
News
14 Jul 2017
Maliah and Abdulbagi joke with a teacher, as other boys look on - the boy's primary school is mixed with students with and without disabilities learning together. Photos: LWF/ C. Kästner

Deaf students in Kakuma aim for the sky

LWF integrates students with disabilities into schools in the refugee camp.

Humanitarian
News
11 Jul 2017
11 Jul 2017

Neglected Crises in DRC and CAR: NGO briefing to member states

Humanitarian
Event
Rev. Zelda Cristina Cossa (left) and Rev. Rosa Minoria Rafael, the second group of women to be ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mozambique, ready to “share the Word, baptize and administer the sacraments to God’s people.” Photo: Salvador Hilário Chame

Celebrating commitment to women's ordination in Mozambique

Pastors Zelda Cossa and Rosa Rafael speak of new hope and dedication

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Churches
Gender
News
03 Jul 2017
LWF and UNHCR staff survey a site designated for a new refugee camp in Lunda Norte province, northeastern Angola. Photo: LWF

Turning a thick Angolan bush into a refugee camp

LWF and UNHCR set up a new camp for people fleeing DRC

Humanitarian
News
29 Jun 2017
Community members meet under a big mango tree, pealing peanuts together. Photo: LWF/Central African Republic

Empowering displaced communities in Central African Republic

‘More positive examples needed from the CAR’, says LWF team leader

Humanitarian
Gender
News
20 Jun 2017
“The righteous shall live by faith” is the theme of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Malagasy Lutheran Church, inaugurated at the Masombahoaka Lutheran parish in Fianaratsoa. Photo: MLC

150 years of a grassroots-based revival movement

Malagasy Lutheran Church starts year-long jubilee and Reformation anniversary

Theology
Churches
News
19 Jun 2017

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