A reflection on the annual 8 March observance from a young LWF delegate at the Commission on the Status of Women

I’ve intentionally celebrated International Women’s Day every year since March 2016. It was my junior year of high school and…

By Marta Spangler

I happened to be at the UN early one morning, to drop off information about a side panel discussion and noticed the sheer volume of discarded cups and half empty crumpled water bottles littering the tables in the…

By Ralston Deffenbaugh

It was a joy for me to be back in New York City. On 22 October, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) had a reception to celebrate its 75th anniversary—75 years of helping to carry out the…

NEW YORK, United States/GENEVA

The Lutheran World Federation’s Women in Church and Society attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, held annually at the UN headquarters in New York. This year’s…

The Lutheran World Federation organized its first interfaith “Peace Messengers Training” in September 2017. The participants gained skills and tools on advocacy, negotiation and mediation. They…

LWF delegate Larry José Madrigal blogs from the world’s largest gathering on women’s human rights

The United Nations is a metaphor for the world in all its diversity, complexity and contradiction.

Thousands of women and hundreds of…

LWF Council Member Ranjita Borgoary writes about what it means to participate United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women

A woman from a village never dreams of participating in a UN meeting. But a dream has come true.

It is a…

ASSISI, Italy/ GENEVA

Walking Together during the Season of Creation

From his home in Assisi, St. Francis wrote a prayer of thanksgiving called the Canticle of Creation, which begins “Praise be to you, my Lord, for all your…

Youth lead the way in combating climate change

In the 1970s, there was a man named Ebbe Arvidsson, who used to come to this building […

COP25: Courage for the work back home  

Catastrophes all over…