Maria Immonen, the director of LWF World service, will be conferred an honorary Doctor of Theology by the University of Helsinki in June. This was announced by the University of Helsinki on 20 March 2023.
LWF representatives in Ukraine and Bishop Pavlo Shvarts of German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine met with local partners and the mayor of Kharkiv to discuss expanding LWF work in Ukraine.
Poland hosts 1.5 million officially registered refugees from Ukraine. Twenty live in Betania, a holiday home of The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland in the Cieszyn Diocese near Bielsko-Biala.
LWF member churches in the region and the LWF humanitarian arm World Service were among the first to respond to the war in Ukraine. A new LWF publication celebrates the communion-wide solidarity in pictures.
This lent, the LWF invites Lutheran churches worldwide to pray for peace in seven countries and regions worldwide. The hashtag #7weeksforpeace will highlight current emergencies and protracted conflicts and how the LWF responds…
Participants from member churches and LWF country programs in eight African countries met in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to share best practices and challenges in monitoring governments’ implementation of the UN's Universal Periodic Review reports.…
LWF has set up a cross-border project between northern Uganda and South Sudan, to provide information and bridge return-related insecurities for refugees, returnees, and old and new host communities.
LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr. Anne Burghardt visited the LWF member church in the Holy Land and the LWF World Service program in Jerusalem from 18-25 January 2023. She was deeply impressed by the work of the LWF Vocational Training Centers and…
