LWF calls for more livelihoods support during COVID-19

(LWI) - A choice between contracting a potentially fatal virus and having nothing to eat: The COVID-19 pandemic means many communities LWF serves are faced with impossible…

LWF livelihoods work in Colombia empowers women and teaches about human rights

(LWI) - Livelihoods and human rights: A project of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Arauca, Colombia, combines the two and empowers women. The Group…

LWF President Musa shared LWF’s 2020 Christmas Message

(LWI) – In a Christmas season marked by uncertainty and fear from the unfamiliar and unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Christians are invited to trust in the promise…

LWF joins UNHCR call to support refugee athletes

(LWI) - Leading up to the Olympic summer games in Tokyo, Japan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has released a…

LWF joins interagency call to fight famine

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has joined more than 200 aid organizations in a call to fight hunger and famine worldwide. In an…

Violence against demonstrators must be stopped, human rights violations investigated

(LWI) - The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia (IELCO) National Ministerial…

Christian organizations call on President Duque to end repression and address root causes of popular protests

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has joined with other global Christian communions and ecumenical organizations in an…

Election to take place on 19 June

(LWI) - Candidates from Estonia and Zimbabwe have been proposed for the position of general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation. The search for a new leader of the communion of churches has been…

LWF Regional Secretary visits Colombia church

(LWI) - "I was inspired by the deep commitment of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia to the most vulnerable populations in Colombia – to indigenous communities, poor people and people…

In this Voices from the Communion, Bishop President Atahualpa Hernández reflects on the role of the Lutheran church as it seeks to promote peace and reconciliation from over half a century of conflict in Colombia.