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The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. Here a group of Oromo internally displaced people move through the Burka Dare IDP site. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. Here a group of Oromo internally displaced people move through the Burka Dare IDP site. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Peacebuilding from the grassroots

Geneva Peace Week: LWF shares work with communities in Ethiopia

(LWI) - “As faith actors in humanitarian and disaster response, we rely on the connection with elders and religious leaders at the grassroots level to reach vulnerable…

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09 Nov 2020
LWF project manager in Nepal, Gautam Yagya, briefs a local community about the LWF COVID-19 response during a handover of medical equipment at Morang hospital, Nepal. Photo: LWF Nepal

LWF project manager in Nepal, Gautam Yagya, briefs a local community about the LWF COVID-19 response during a handover of medical equipment at Morang hospital, Nepal. Photo: LWF Nepal

Empowering faith actors as gender justice advocates

Women’s Human Rights Advocacy Training offers practical support to those advocating for change at grassroots level

(LWI) - The rice fields and forests of Morang in eastern Nepal are a world away from the magnificent halls of Geneva’s…

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13 Nov 2020
Several hundred women from the Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia (GKPI) gathered at a church in Medan City, North Sumatra, on 19 August 2019 to hear about ways of implementing the Lutheran World Federation's (LWF) Gender Justice Policy in their own local context. Photo: GKPI

Several hundred women from the Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia (GKPI) gathered at a church in Medan City, North Sumatra, on 19 August 2019 to hear about ways of implementing the Lutheran World Federation's (LWF) Gender Justice Policy in their own local context. Photo: GKPI

Indonesia: Concern about freedom of religion

LWF and WCRC call on Indonesian president to better protect Christian communities

(LWI) - Following the recent reports about attacks on churches and Christian communities in Indonesia, the General Secretaries of the Lutheran World…

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20 Nov 2020
Lighting candles together. People of faith gather in a “Prayer for the Rainforest” as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, Spain, where faith-based organizations urged decision-makers to take action for climate justice. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Lighting candles together. People of faith gather in a “Prayer for the Rainforest” as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, Spain, where faith-based organizations urged decision-makers to take action for climate justice. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Praying and acting for climate justice in the months until COP26

Commitment to a responsible attitude towards our planet 

(LWI) – As a member of the Global Prayer and Action Chain for Climate Justice, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) hosted an online…

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24 Nov 2020

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