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Five LWF vice-presidents: from left to right, Desri Maria Sumbayak, Propstin Astrid Klein, Archbishop Antje Jackelen, Rev. Jeannette Ada Epse Maina and Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton Photo: LWF/A. Hillert

Promoting gender justice in church and society

A meeting of Lutheran women leaders looks at ways of transforming patriarchal attitudes and structures

(LWI) - Working together to challenge patriarchal structures and attitudes was at the top of the agenda as participants in a…

Director General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Michael MÃ¸ller addresses the launch of the Waking the Giant self-assessment tool on 17 June. Photo: LWF/A.Hillert

UN endorses LWF work for Development Goals

New online tool launched to help churches link their work to UN’s 2030 Agenda

(LWI) - The world urgently needs the contribution of Lutheran churches and other faith based organizations if the UN Sustainable Development Goals are to be…

LWF Council members follow discussion on the protection of biodiversity. The report was presented by the Committee for Advocacy and Public Voice chairperson, Ms Vera Tkach, Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Russia and Other States. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Call to act on climate-related crises, religious and political injustice

Public statements and resolutions from 2019 LWF Council meeting

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council concluded its 2019 meeting with public statements and resolutions on crises related to climate change, the Israeli-…

Youth members of the LWF Council gather ahead of the 13 to 18 June meeting Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Young Lutherans raise concerns at Council 2019

Youth Council members call for action on climate change, gender justice and participation in church leadership

(LWI) - Young Lutheran ordained and lay leaders from different parts of the globe gathered in Geneva for a Pre-Council meeting…

A group of refugees in Dosseye camp in southern Chad who are benefitting from LWFâs project for improved livelihood and access to land. (Photos taken before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic). All photos: LWF/OphÃ©lie Schnoebelen

Welcoming strangers, finding friendship

Conversations with host communities, returnees, refugees in Chad

“We have understood that we have to live in peace with one another. The little we have, we share”, says the village chief.

We are sitting under a tree in Mbikou…

Ms.Â SarashowtiÂ Rishidev, treasurer for the District Federation ofÂ MusaharÂ Organizations supported by LWF Nepal, at a community gathering before the lockdown began. AllÂ Photos:Â LWF NepalÂ

COVID-19: Radio and SMS reaching people in Nepal

LWF’s World Service program scales up response to pandemic with information and basic prevention items

(LWI) - Short text messages and radio broadcasts in local languages are among the effective ways in which the Lutheran World…

In IDP camps in Rakhine State, loudspeakers are used to broadcast COVID-19 prevention messaging in Rohingya and other local languages. All Photos: LWF/Myanmar

COVID-19: LWF on frontlines of response in rural Myanmar

Working on prevention messaging with UN, partner communities and local health authorities

(LWI) - As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to spread globally, developing countries with internally displaced populations, high labor…

Awareness raising banners and posters, using LWF material, have been put up at strategic locations in Jewi refugee camp in Gambella, western Ethiopia. All photos: LWF Ethiopia

COVID-19: Protecting Ethiopia’s rural communities

World Service staff scaling up awareness raising and prevention among refugees and host communities

(LWI) - In Ethiopia, where The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) works in remote rural areas with refugees and host communities, World…

LWF staff distribute hygiene kits door-to-door to families living in Dawodiya IDP camp in northern Iraq. All Photos: LWF WS Iraq

COVID-19: Slowing the spread of infection in Iraq

LWF is distributing hygiene kits and information to households in camps for internally displaced people

(LWI) - In a country already struggling with one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is…

Christian communities worldwide should be models for an economy of life in their own contexts urge the global Christian organizations. The photo shows LWF livelihoods projects in Nepal. LWF/Albin Hillert

COVID-19: Adopt an Economy of Life, urge global Christian organizations

Coronavirus pandemic a prophetic moment

(LWI) – The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new urgency to adopting an “Economy of Life.” Global Christian organizations that represent millions of people across the world are calling for action…