DOSSEYE, Chad/ GENEVA, 19 June 2015 (LWI) - “A civil servant buys what he needs in a market. A farmer has it at home,” Daniel Deba, President of the seed production group quotes a proverb he learned…
GORE, Chad / GENEVA, 23 June 2015 (LWI) - The log is still lying in the yard of her home in Maro village, Chad. It's a big white chunk of wood, heavy to lift and polished from a person touching it and sitting…
Continued cooperation of ongoing projects in the area of diakonia
GENEVA, 25 June 2015 (LWI) - The Development and Social Services Commission of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY-DASSC) and the Global…
GENEVA, 01 July 2015 (LWI) – A call by The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council on its churches to continue praying for peace and improved interfaith relations in Nigeria will contribute to…
LWF supports refugees with small loans to generate income
(LWI) – Her assortment includes salt, onions, Maggi flavour cubes, little yellow peppers and cooking oil. Pointy plastic bags with the yellow liquid are shining in the afternoon…
Order of worship for the 2015 Reformation Sunday period is now available.
The Reformation Sunday liturgy refers to the topic, Human beings - not for sale, one of the sub-themes chosen by the LWF for the 500th Reformation anniversary in…
OBOCK, Djibouti/ GENEVA, 20 July 2015 (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is assisting refugees from Yemen who have sought shelter in neighboring Djibouti.
BUJUMBURA, Burundi/ NYARUGUSU, Tanzania/ GENEVA, 21 July 2015 (LWI) – As presidential elections commence in Burundi, civil unrest has once again soared in the capital of Bujumbura. The…
Credibility and accountability urged at West African workshop
(LWI) – The President of the Lutheran Communion in Central and Western Africa (LUCCWA) Archbishop Christian Ekong, has urged churches in the communion to set up structures that…
“It is difficult to see so many people in need and not to be able to help them.”
GORE, Chad/ GENEVA – 12 August (LWI) - The people Deena Houmhisna works with have seen unimaginable things. “They have been in a war,” the young woman says…
