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ILUGUA General Coordinator Rev. JosÃ© Pilar Ãlvarez Cabrera. Photo: LWF/M. Haas

Guatemalan Lutheran Church’s Álvarez on the Importance of LWF Membership

Greater Visibility of Advocacy and Human Rights Work

(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) accepted the Guatemalan Lutheran Church (ILUGUA) into membership at the June 2014 Council meeting in Indonesia, bringing the total…

Decades of struggle for legal recognition of his land came to nothing for Don Francisco Siguic. Now the LWF and a Guatemalan human rights association hope to obtain land ownership titles. Photo: LWF/C. KÃ¤stner

Protecting earth and identity

LWF supports Maya communities in Guatemala

(LWI) - If anyone knows about bureaucracy in Guatemala, it would be Francisco Siguic, 65. He has been trying to get a land title for more than 40 years.

Siguic, or Don Francisco, is a…

An indigenous ceremony in Guatemala, honouring the earth and creation. Respect for the environment runs deep in the indigenous communities of Guatemala, many of whom now see their traditional way of life threatened by infrastructure projects. Photo: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

Guatemala Lutherans speak out against killing of human rights activist

Indigenous communities “most affected when defending their way of life”

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation Central America Program, together with the Guatemala Lutheran Church (Iglesia Luterana Guatemalteca, ILUGUA), an LWF member…

President Rev. JosÃ© Pilar Cabrera of the LWF member church ILUGUA, which also belongs to the Communion of Lutheran Churches in Guatemala. Photo: ILUGUA

A setback in the fight for justice

Lutherans in Guatemala protest expulsion of commissioner investigating impunity and corruption

(LWI) - The Communion of Lutheran Churches of Guatemala has expressed regret and objection to the government's expulsion of the Commissioner of…

Rev. JosÃ© Pilar Ãlvarez Cabrera, President of the Guatemala Lutheran Church. Photo: Craig Foster

Guatemala: Church concern over setback in fight against impunity

Interview with ILUGUA President Rev. José Pilar Álvarez Cabrera

(LWI) – In January 2019, the Guatemalan government rescinded an agreement with the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (…

Human rights defenders have expressed concern about the partiality of justice in handling the situation. Photo: ILUGUA

Guatemalan church defends right to peaceful protest

Church stands with human rights defenders, calls for criminal investigations into destruction of water conduits

(LWI) - The Guatemala Lutheran Church (ILUGUA) has called on the…

Rev. JosÃ© Pilar Ãlvarez Cabrera (ILUGUA) has been receiving threats since the night of September 7. Photo: Nelton Rivera Community Press

Threats against Guatemalan church leader

LWF and ecumenical organizations stand in solidarity

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), together with other ecumenical partners, has “expressed deep concern” over recent threats against a Lutheran pastor and human rights…

UN Secretary-General AntÃ³nio Guterres during a briefing on COVID-19 at WHO headquarters in Geneva. 24 February 2020. UN Photo / Jean Marc FerrÃ©

COVID-19: LWF joins global UN appeal to help the most vulnerable

Joint action to respond to “unprecedented threat” of coronavirus pandemic

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) together with other organizations is joining the global appeal of the United Nations (UN) for donations to respond to …

The Lutheran church in Guatemala is one of 48 churches that received funding from the LWFâs COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund (RRF). Photo: ILAG/Diego GIL

COVID-19: Villages self-isolate to protect against coronavirus

Rapid Response Fund: Lutheran church in Guatemala traverses barriers to deliver food supplies

(LWI) - Braving a tropical storm, mudslides and other road obstacles, the …

Thanks to the Lutheran communionâs emergency support, Gregorio PÃ©rez and other residents of Shupa village are replanting crops lost to two successive hurricanes. Photo: ILUGUA

Guatemalan church assists families recovering from hurricane impact amid COVID-19

Lutheran communion supports rural farming communities who lost everything

(LWI) – For Gregorio Pérez, a leader of the indigenous Maya Chortí in Guatemala’s southeastern department of Chiquimula, the rising number of Coronavirus (COVID-19…