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Promotion of tolerance and mutual respect starts at an early age at the ELCJHL–run Dar al-Kalima Evangelical Lutheran School in Bethlehem where the student body is 40 percent Christian and 60 percent Muslim. © ELCJHL/ Elizabeth McHan

Promotion of tolerance and mutual respect starts at an early age at the ELCJHL–run Dar al-Kalima Evangelical Lutheran School in Bethlehem where the student body is 40 percent Christian and 60 percent Muslim. © ELCJHL/ Elizabeth McHan

LWF Welcomes UN Call for Protection of Human Rights Workers in Honduras

Latin American Churches Working on Human Rights Network

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has welcomed a preliminary United Nations report on human rights violations in Honduras that urges protection of human rights workers, who are…

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17 Feb 2012
Promotion of tolerance and mutual respect starts at an early age at the ELCJHL–run Dar al-Kalima Evangelical Lutheran School in Bethlehem where the student body is 40 percent Christian and 60 percent Muslim. © ELCJHL/ Elizabeth McHan

Promotion of tolerance and mutual respect starts at an early age at the ELCJHL–run Dar al-Kalima Evangelical Lutheran School in Bethlehem where the student body is 40 percent Christian and 60 percent Muslim. © ELCJHL/ Elizabeth McHan

LWF Congratulates Palestinian Lutheran Pastor Raheb for German Media Prize

Junge Lauds Holy Land Church Support to Peace-building Institutions

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has extended congratulations to Palestinian Lutheran pastor Rev. Dr Mitri Raheb on winning the 2011 “Deutscher Medienpreis” (German…

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24 Feb 2012
A woman grieves as she waits outside a morgue in Tegucigalpa to receive the body of her relative killed in the Comayagua prison fire. © Reuters/Jorge Lopez, courtesy Trust.org - AlertNet

A woman grieves as she waits outside a morgue in Tegucigalpa to receive the body of her relative killed in the Comayagua prison fire. © Reuters/Jorge Lopez, courtesy Trust.org - AlertNet

Honduran Church Demands Inquiry into Horrific Prison Fire

LWF Supports Lutheran Advocacy for Justice

The Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras (ICLH) has expressed shock and sorrow over the fire tragedy at the Comayagua central jail and demanded an inquiry into the cause of the blaze that killed…

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28 Feb 2012
Left to right: Jeannette Ada Maina (EELC), Jessica Arneson (ELCA), Daniele Schmidt Peter (IECLB) and Irma Rodríguez-León (ELCA) during a side event on rural women’s empowerment at the United Nations 56th Commission on the Status of Women in New York, USA. © ELCA/Kate Gaskill

Left to right: Jeannette Ada Maina (EELC), Jessica Arneson (ELCA), Daniele Schmidt Peter (IECLB) and Irma Rodríguez-León (ELCA) during a side event on rural women’s empowerment at the United Nations 56th Commission on the Status of Women in New York, USA. © ELCA/Kate Gaskill

"From Potential Impoverishment to Seeds of Sustainability"

LWF Participants at UN Session Lift Up the Voices of Rural Women Worldwide

Rural women around the world are planting seeds of hope in their communities.

That was the message from The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) women as they…

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02 Mar 2012
(right) equal-salary Executive Director Véronique Goy Veenhuys awards the equal wage certification label to LWF General Secretary Rev. Martin Junge. © LWF/H. Putsman Penet

(right) equal-salary Executive Director Véronique Goy Veenhuys awards the equal wage certification label to LWF General Secretary Rev. Martin Junge. © LWF/H. Putsman Penet

LWF Equal Salary Certification Affirms Commitment to Gender Justice

A Powerful Encouragement on International Women’s Day, Says General Secretary Junge

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Communion Office has hailed its certification today as an “equal salary” employer in Switzerland as an important step…

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08 Mar 2012
Rev. Nelson Siregar, head of the diakonia department of the Protestant Christian Batak Church in Indonesia addresses the LWF consultation. © LWF/Anto Akkara

Rev. Nelson Siregar, head of the diakonia department of the Protestant Christian Batak Church in Indonesia addresses the LWF consultation. © LWF/Anto Akkara

LWF Christian-Muslim Consultation Outlines Strategies for Democratic Economic Structures

Faith Communities Urged to Learn from Social Movements Clamoring for Change

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) continues a series of interfaith consultations on structural greed, this time with a goal to defining common strategies by…

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20 Mar 2012

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