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Image LWF Annual Report 2023 - For a Just and Peaceful World LWF Annual Report 2023 For a Just and Peaceful World
Image LWF 2025-2031 Strategy Cover LWF Strategy 2025-2031 Sharing Hope: Empowering Churches, Impacting the World
Image Participants at the 2024 Asia Church Leadership Conference in Hong Kong. Photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano Asia: Stand in solidarity and share hope Asia Church Leadership Conference concludes with a pledge to strengthen ties and support those who suffer (LWI) - “Hope is a shared language in our uncertain world,” affirmed over 100 participants in the Asia Church Leadership Conference…
Image The faith leaders are calling on the G20 to fix inequality and tackle climate change, which is the greatest challenge facing humanity today. The photo above shows a farmer participating an LWF project "Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation" in Cameroon and Chad. Photo: LWF/M. Renaux Church leaders call on G20 to halt growing inequality, ramp up climate action In a letter to G20 leaders meeting in Brazil, LWF and partners call for far-reaching tax policies and meaningful climate action (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has joined with ecumenical partners in urging the leaders of G20…
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Image Rodolfo Christian Catunta Uturunco, National Youth Coordinator, Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Photo: Private Devotion: a starting point for transformation Come, Let Us Celebrate Together – Youth reflections on climate, gender justice, and migration I joined The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Latin America and the…
Image Allanah Carron inside the United Nations headquarters in New York. Photo: Lutheran Office for World Community Learning to build a more equitable world A young participant in the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women shares top takeaways from her time in New York I was born and raised in Paramaribo, the…
Image Rama Ramanathan, second from left, shares ideas with participants at the LWF Lay Leaders’ Seminar in Geneva. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay Two paintings, one global communion A participant in LWF’s 6th international seminar for lay leaders reflects on his experience and lessons learned “Church” conjures a…
Image Hania Walica, recipient of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s International Women Leaders scholarship. Starting out on the road to gender justice advocate A young Polish delegate at the Commission on the Status of Women shares her story of overcoming imposter syndrome This year I have had an opportunity that I never thought I would have. For the last five or six years…
