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E.g., 2023-06-08

14 Nov
41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured in what used to be the living room of her family home in the village of Bil’machivka. Photo: LWF/ Albin Hillert
Ukraine: “We just want the war to be over”
emergency, emergency response, Ukraine crisis
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In Chernihiv, a region in northern Ukraine that was occupied for two months, families are still feeling the impact of the invasion and Russian occupation in the spring.
14 Nov
41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured in what used to be the living room of her family home in the village of Bil’machivka. Photo: LWF/ Albin Hillert
Ukraine: “We just want the war to be over”
emergency, emergency response, Ukraine crisis
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In Chernihiv, a region in northern Ukraine that was occupied for two months, families are still feeling the impact of the invasion and Russian occupation in the spring.
11 Nov
As G20 leaders meet in Indonesia, LWF and other Christian organizations appeal for measures to promote a more equitable and participatory global economic system. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Urgent appeal to G20 leaders ahead of Bali summit
Ecumenical, NIFEA, G20, Social Justice
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As G20 leaders meet in Indonesia, LWF and other Christian leaders are urging them to take action towards fairer and more participatory financial systems that can tackle our current social, economic...
10 Nov
Weeding the green crop. LWF also trains the locals in environmentally clean farming techniques. Photo: LWF/ S. Gebreyes
Ethiopia: Seeds against hunger
Livelihoods, Climate, humanitarian
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Oromia, Ethiopia, is one of the provinces most suffering from recent droughts. LWF supports local farmers with special teff seed, that is drought-resistant and yields a bigger harvest than the...
10 Nov
Photo: Michael via Unsplash
Online course on climate justice and faith offered in Spanish
Climate, Climate Justice, ecotheology, Theology
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LWF is expanding its online course on climate justice. A course directed explicitly to Spanish speakers qualifies lay and ordained persons for climate justice work from a faith perspective.
10 Nov
Delegates from The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria and the LWF World Service country programs in Kenya--Somalia and Angola. Photo: ALCINET/F. Samari
Together for human rights in Africa
humanitarian, LWF member churches, Action for Justice, Gender, Youth
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Delegates from The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria, and the LWF World Service country programs in Kenya--Somalia and Angola participated in the...
9 Nov
With the prolonged economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Honduran Lutheran church continues to provide low-income families with food items and support for small businesses. Photo: ICLH
Honduras: Solidarity during prolonged crisis
Rapid Response Fund, Communion Building, LWF member churches, Diakonia
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A Lutheran communion fund continues to cushion low-income households in Honduras from the impact of two crises: COVID-19 and successive hurricanes. “Some households have no other source of income.”
8 Nov
The distribution center at the Krakow train station managed by the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association and their partners. Photo: LWF/ L. Gillabert 
Poland: Winter aid for Ukrainian refugees
Ukraine crisis, Humanitarian Response, Poland
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LWF and partners have begun distributing food, hygiene products, and baby care products to Ukrainian refugees in Krakow and other cities in Poland.
7 Nov
A moment of blessing by Chad Rimmer (second from right), LWF’s Program Executive for Identity, Communion and Formation, to conclude the prayer during the Talanoa interfaith gathering on the eve of COP27 in Egypt. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert 
COP27: People of faith join hands on eve of climate summit
COP27, Climate Justice, Youth, Interfaith
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On the eve of COP27, people of faith gathered for a Talanoa dialogue and prayer. They met one another across different faiths and shared initiatives, concerns, and hopes for their engagement at the...
7 Nov
Young participants at a Global Peace Messengers Training in Geneva in June 2022. Photo: LWF/S. Kit
Young faith actors say ‘Peace is Possible’
Interfaith, Peace, Youth, Peace Messengers
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LWF partners with Faith to Action Network to showcase work of young activists at Geneva Peace Week
4 Nov
Voices from the Communion. LWF Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean Rev. Dr Nestor Friedrich. Photo: LWF/A.Hillert
Brazil: “I love to share the story and history of LWF”
Voices from the Communion, Communion, Communion Building
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LWF Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean Rev. Dr Nestor Friedrich, shares some memorable moments serving as LWF vice-president, and his commentary of polarization in his country, and...
3 Nov
Signs reading “Loss + Damage” outside the venue of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Loss and Damage relate to how rich countries may help developing and poorer countries manage the impacts of climate change on peoples lives as the world needs to transition to build a sustainable future. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert 
COP27: Taking LWF’s climate justice engagement to the global level 
COP27, Climate Justice, Youth
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LWF's main calls at COP27 focus on rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, massively scaling up climate finance, making significant progress on climate adaptation, and creating a new...
2 Nov
Uppsala Cathedral, Church of Sweden. Photo: CC-BY-NC-ND/Andreas Larsen 
Church of Sweden awards church educators
Education
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The Swedish Church's Learning and Teaching Prize was established by the Church of Sweden to encourage Christian education. Rev. Thomas Pfitzinger-Drewes, pastor of Hagfors pastorate in Karlstad...
1 Nov
Photos: LWF Archives
75th anniversary book celebrates Lutheran witness and service
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A photo per year, marking seven and a half decades of witness and service. The LWF has launched a 75th anniversary book, dedicated to all those who have made the communion’s work possible.
31 Oct
Outgoing Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén who stepped down from her leadership role on 30 October. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Vital voice for the church in the public space
Communion Building, Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue
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LWF General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt thanks outgoing Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén for her role in championing the work and witness of the global Lutheran communion
26 Oct
Since 2011, young people have represented the LWF at the UN climate change conferences COP, advocating for climate and intergenerational justice. Last year they also participated in the climate march during COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Forty young climate activists call for results at COP27 climate conference
COP, COP27, Climate Justice
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Forty young climate activists from LWF’s member churches will represent the global communion at the COP27 conference of the United Nations in Egypt in November. They will bring local and regional...
25 Oct
Teacher Natalia Koval leads an online class in textile handiwork at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Ukraine: Bringing students back to school
quality services, Ukraine crisis
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While cities in Ukraine are being shelled day and night, LWF renovates school basements in Ichnya and Bobrovytsia to serve as bomb shelters. This is to make schools safe again for students to attend...
24 Oct
LWF Regional Secretary for Europe, Rev. Dr Ireneusz Lukas, addresses delegates attending the church leadership consultation for Central and Eastern Europe in Bratislava. Photo: ECAC SR/Jana Nunvárová 
Strengthening regional cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe
Leadership
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Leaders of churches across the region have been meeting together in Bratislava to seek common solutions to contemporary challenges facing their congregations.
21 Oct
Staff from multi-purpose cash assistance centres across Poland – established to support incoming refugees to Poland from Ukraine – gather in Bytom for a full-week training in 'community-based psychosocial support' provided through ACT Church of Sweden. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Poland: Community centers for Ukrainian refugees and host communities
LWF member churches, humanitarian, Protection, Ukraine crisis
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LWF expands its refugee response in Poland into the areas of protection, social cohesion, and education. A workshop on community based psychosocial support equipped Ukrainian refugee staff from...
20 Oct
LWF’s President and General Secretary are in Bratislava for the first Church Leadership Consultation in the Central Eastern Europe since the pandemic, focusing on the church’s role in promoting peace and reconciliation in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Central East European leaders meet to discuss peace, reconciliation
Leadership Conference, Member Churches, Communion Churche
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LWF’s President and General Secretary are in Bratislava for the first Church Leadership Consultation in the Central Eastern Europe since the pandemic, focusing on the church’s role in promoting peace...
20 Oct
The Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa meets for its 11th Assembly and celebrates 30-years of communion in the subregion. Photo: LUCS/R. Mofulatsi
Churches journey together in Southern Africa
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The Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa (LUCSA) member churches held the LUCSA 11th Assembly from 19 – 22 September 2022, under the theme “This is my body,” as part of the Assembly, LUCSA also...
19 Oct
Scripture scholars Rev. Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, associate pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church, and Rev. Dr Jean Koulagna, director of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology Al Mowafaqa in Rabat. Photo: Montage LWF/S. Gallay
Webinar series marks 500 years of Bible translation
Communion Building, Communion Relations, Reformation, Lutheran identity
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Scripture scholars Sarah Hinlicky Wilson in Tokyo and Jean Koulagna in Rabat discuss the challenges of biblical translation and why it is essential to continue making the Word of God more accessible...
18 Oct
10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A man walks through the rubble and shards of glass on the street of Vulytsya Tereshchenkivsʹka in central Kyiv, which hours earlier was hit by a Russian missile. Photo: LWF/ Albin Hillert
Ukraine: Lutherans in Kyiv help people in need
Ukraine crisis
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As Russian missiles continue to hit cities all over Ukraine, the Lutheran congregation in Kyiv and its volunteers support people in need.
17 Oct
The mobile mammography screening unit, the Pink Bus, at Singel village in Ramallah on 3rd October 2022. The bus offers free screenings to women in Palestine and the West Bank. Photo: AVH
Pink October in East Jerusalem
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The LWF Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem marks breast cancer awareness month. An emphasis is put on community outreach activities.
14 Oct
A display at the MAGMA interactive museum of risk showcases LWF Colombia-Venezuela's work in pioneering in ethnically sensitive approaches to disaster risk reduction. Photo: LWF Colombia
Colombian museum features LWF project
humanitarian
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An interactive display of the ethnic-sensitive approach to disaster risk management pioneered by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Colombia/Venezuela Program is being featured at the new MAGMA...
12 Oct
Panel on the situation of minority churches in the Central and Western Europe region. (From left) Michael Martin (moderator), Andreas Wöhle (Protestant Church in the Netherlands), Anna Krauss (Lutheran Council of Great Britain), Renate Dienst (Federation of Evangelical-Lutheran Churches in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein), Michael Chalupka (Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria), and Ulrich Rüsen-Weinhold (United Protestant Church of France). Photo: LWF/A. Weyermüller
European Churches called to be messengers of hope and reconciliation
Governance, Communion, LWF member churches
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The Church Leadership Consultation of the Central and Western Europe Region focused on global challenges and the role of diaspora churches in the LWF communion.
11 Oct
LWF General Secretary Anne Burghardt during her address at the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the GNC/LWF. Photo: TSK/Paul-Philipp Braun
Germany: Contributing to the communion of churches
LWF member churches, Communion Building
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The German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation received much appreciation for its commitment to holistic mission through supporting LWF in its work in communion relations, theology,...
11 Oct
United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India celebrates 30 years of women ordination. Photo: LWF/Philip Lok
Thirty Years of Women’s Ordination in India
LWF member churches, Asia, Gender Justice, ordination
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The three-day celebration was filled with joy and thanksgiving for cultural diversity and advancements, but also with solemn moments when women pastors and theologically trained women shared stories...
7 Oct
Rev. Dr Cheryl Peterson, Professor of Theology and Associate Dean for Academics at Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University in Ohio, has written extensively about Lutheran and Pentecostal identity and the Holy Spirit. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson 
USA: "I believe in the Holy Spirit”
Voices from the Communion, Ecumenical, Theology, Women in Ordained Ministry
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In this Voices from the Communion, Rev. Dr Cheryl Peterson, Professor of Theology and Associate Dean for Academics at Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University in Ohio and a member of the...
7 Oct
LWF General Secretary Burghardt addressing the General Assembly of German Association of Protestant Churches and Missions. Photo: Corinna Waltz/EMW
Listening to others: an essential element of mission
Evangelische Mission Weltweit, LWF General Secretary
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How can Christians respond to the call to share the Good News of the gospel while respecting the dignity and identity of others? LWF’s General Secretary reflects on the meaning of mission in our...
6 Oct
Members of the International Lutheran-Pentecostal Dialogue Commission meet together at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California from 23 to 27 September. Photo: LWF
Lutherans and Pentecostals: Proclaiming, healing, serving
Lutheran-Pentecostal dialogue, Ecumenical
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What commonalities do Lutheran and Pentecostal Christians share? How can they step up their joint witness in the world? Members of an international dialogue group have been meeting to explore these...