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LWF Honduras representative Carlos Rivera (with white face mask) visits ChamelecÃ³n, 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

“It will take years to recover”

Honduras after the hurricanes

I’ve worked in Honduras over many years since the late 90s, working in emergency response and as a photojournalist. Recently I went to visit some of the areas that were worst hit by the double hurricanes in…

26 October 2023, El Guante, Cedros, Honduras: LWF World Service staff Lucas Reniery Funes Posadas oversees the distribution of goods intended as 'seed capital' offered to returned migrants as part of a program offering them support in starting small-scale businesses to provide for themselves. Photo: LWF/A. Hillert

A friendly hand for communities in need

LWF General Secretary Anne Burghardt witnesses the work of accompaniment and support that the church and the World Service program in Honduras are providing for migrants returning to the region

With the prolonged economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Honduran Lutheran church continues to provide low-income families with food items and support for small businesses. Photo: ICLH

Honduras: Solidarity during prolonged crisis

A Lutheran communion fund continues to cushion low-income households in Honduras from the impact of two crises: COVID-19 and successive hurricanes. “Some households have no other source of income.”

Illustration by Volha Prankevich on behalf of Annenkirche (the Church of St. Anna), Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia.

2019 LWF Christmas message: Light in the darkness

Invitation to Christians to make "the light of Christ visible and transformational"

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) President Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa invites Christians to make “the…

2020 New Year Message: So that all have life in abundance

“In times of exclusionary populism, silence is never an option”

(LWI) - In his New Year message, the General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Rev. Dr Martin Junge calls on churches to bear witness to the gospel message…

Members of the Christian Lutheran church of Honduras hold regular demonstrations calling for justice and an end to corruption. Photo: ICLH

Honduran church denounces corruption, injustice

Lutherans called to be a prophetic voice as country descends further into social and economic crisis

(LWI) - The Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras (ICLH) continues to…

Tropical Storm Eta on November 1, 2020. Photo: NASA (public domain)

Solidarity with churches after tropical depression “Eta”

"We are united in prayer”

(LWI) - In a letter to Lutheran churches in Central America, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge has expressed solidarity with the people and communities affected by the …