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Participants in the 2018 national youth gathering of the Evangelical Church of the River Plate in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay included delegates from other LWF member churches in the LAC region. Photo: LWF/ Eugenio Albrecht
30 Jan 2021

Global Young Reformers 2.0 regional meeting for LAC and NA delegates: Webinar 1

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LWF Honduras representative Carlos Rivera (with white face mask) visits Chamelecón, Honduras, to see the damage done by hurricanes Eta and Iota. As the flooding came unexpectedly fast, many people lost all their belongings. Photo: Sean Hawkey

The climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis

LWF and partners launch call for accelerated climate adaptation

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25 Jan 2021
Prof. Dr Dirk Lange, LWF’s Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Relations. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

Ecumenical partnerships in a post-pandemic world

At the end of the Week of Prayer, we look ahead to highlights and hopes for progress towards Christian unity

Unity
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25 Jan 2021
Arianne van Andel from the Interreligious Aliance for the Climate, Chile leads a word of prayer, as people of faith gather in a 'Prayer for the Rainforest' as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
4 Feb 2021

Women and Interfaith Engagement

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Grandchamp sisters join hands with visitors to the community before the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. Photo: All photos by Grandchamp Community

Christian unity: way of life for Grandchamp sisters

Ecumenical community in Switzerland prepared prayers and reflections for annual Week of Prayer

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18 Jan 2021
LWF Communion Office staff marked the 2019 International Women’s Day by taking part in activities on gender justice. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay
17 Feb 2021

Transforming Masculinity Webinar 3 (UPDATE)

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29-year-old Jihad Albaba, from the Am'ari Camp, repairs the wifi functionality of a mobile phone in a small shop in Ramallah, after graduating from studies in Telecommunication at the LWF vocational training center in Ramallah. The GRIT project aims to increase the number of Palestinian women in technical and other non-traditional professions, which often offer better paid jobs. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

LWF project opens new doors for Palestinian women

LWF Jerusalem offers vocational training and economic empowerment

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12 Jan 2021
We stand with you in prayer and solidarity, wrote general secretary Junge to presiding bishop Eaton. Photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano

Lutheran communion stands with church in U.S.

LWF leader sends message of support to ELCA following storming of U.S. Capitol

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07 Jan 2021
“We cannot erase our history of division, but we can make it part of our story of reconciliation,” write the President of the PCPCU, Cardinal Kurt Koch, and the General Secretary of the LWF, Reverend Dr Martin Junge, in a joint foreword to the Italian edition of the JDDJ. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Reaffirmed commitment to path from conflict to communion

New Italian version of JDDJ on 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther’s Excommunication

Unity
News
04 Jan 2021

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