World Not Delivering on Gaza Reconstruction Promises, New Report Warns
(LWI) – The international community must urgently change its approach to Gaza and deliver on promises of reconstruction, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) together…
Eleven students receive diploma in oncology nursing
JERUSALEM/ GENEVA, 24 June 2015 (LWI) – The first class of oncology nurses have graduated from the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem. Eleven post-graduate students received a…
JERUSALEM/ GENEVA, 20 October 2015 (LWI) – Recently erected checkpoints in East Jerusalem have been holding up patients and staff on their way to several hospitals. “Currently, all of the hospitals within the East Jerusalem Hospital Network are…
Jerusalem’s Augusta Victoria Hospital specializes in the treatment of kidney disease and cancer treatment. It is the first and only hospital in the Palestinian territories to provide radiation therapy for Palestinian cancer patients and is the…
(LWI) - In the year since he became chief executive officer of the LWF-run Augusta Victoria Hospital, Walid Nammour has already realised what he sees as his primary role as CEO – to build on…
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) received with heartfelt gratitude a donation of EUR 51,400 from the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB) towards additional patient care at the Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) in East…
(LWI) - A team of doctors and nurses from the Lutheran World Federation’s Augusta Victoria Hospital, in Jerusalem, is in Gaza supporting medical teams tending to Palestinians wounded by Israeli…
ELCJHL Bishop Azar: law excludes other religious groups
(LWI) The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is concerned about the impact that a new law passed by the Israeli parliament will have on the human rights of minorities. The law, passed…
