GENEVA/LONDON, 5 October 2015 - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) will jointly discuss the importance of faith-based organizations as positive contributors to humanitarian work in a side event at the annual…
“Fences and walls are no way to shape a good life together for people”
BUDAPEST, Hungary/GENEVA, 4 October 2015 (LWI) - Lutheran World Federation Vice-Presidents in Europe have called for agreement on a dignified refugee policy in the…
(LWI) - They walked for six hours on muddy trails, crossing mountain streams and braving landslides. Many were mothers, carrying small children. They came alone, as their husbands had…
(LWI) – A group of newly elected leaders among The Lutheran World Federation member churches have formed a peer support network to mutually accompany each other and minister to one another in…
Faith organizations at forefront of emergency operations
GENEVA, 8 October, 2015 (LWI) - Faith-based organizations show “remarkable signs of leadership” in refugee relief efforts worldwide, a senior official of the United Nations refugee…
Sponsorship gives girls confidence to make own decisions
(LWI) - The first man who proposed marriage to Fatou Haidana had seen her at the market. He followed her home and asked for her hand. Her mother declined. The second was a Marabout…
(LWI) - “I came to Adjumani with only the clothes on my back and just one Sudanese pound. I was 12-years-old, alone and afraid,” 14-year-old Gift Minzi says.
LWF President Younan visits border village of Korean Peninsula
(LWI) – At the border village of Panmunjom that divides the Korean people, Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan, President of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), said peace between…
