LWF mission assesses situation at Serbo-Croatian border
(LWI) – A fact-finding mission by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and aid agency Diakonie Hungary is looking into ways of providing joint assistance to refugees at the Serbo-…
KATHMANDU, Nepal/ GENEVA, 20 October 2015 (LWI) - When a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal half a year ago, it seemed to Saraswati Purkoti that life had ended. The single mother of three lost her home and chance of earning some…
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…
"We were just looking for peace,” says Bolozi Nzenze Budiaki, as if apologizing for the fact that she is now sitting in a tent and relyies on development aid in a country which is not her home.
GENEVA, 2 November 2015 (LWI) - Lutherans in Malaysia have opened their hearts to the people of Nepal with a significant cash donation for The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) relief work.
DOHUK, Iraq/ GENEVA, 9 November 2015 (LWI) - “We thought it would be a few days, until things calmed down”, Nadine says. “My parents said: go visit your uncle. It’s just a short field trip. That field trip has lasted a year and a half…
(LWI) – "It is one thing to tell the story,” Alexis Mendoza says, “but it’s another thing to experience it. It is difficult to lose your animals and have all your crops damaged. You already have very little and…
DOHUK, Iraq/GENEVA, 13 November 2015 (LWI) – When the Islamic State militia (IS) advanced on Asna’s (not her real name) village in the Sinjar mountains, her neighbor convinced the Yazidi family to…
