In a public statement, the Thirteenth LWF Assembly, condemned the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and expressed shock at churches that “abuse their authority to justify aggression.”
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.
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Our first stop was the Model Village, on a hilltop above the town of Gressier, approximately one hour to the West of Port-au-Prince. The Gressier Model Village is composed of 150 single family homes, an office, and a community area.
This year’s Global Leadership Team Meeting will focus on the new LWF World Service Strategy. Seeing the high number of conflicts, often exacerbated by natural disaster worldwide, discussions will center around how to best serve people in need.
