Search | Fédération Luthérienne Mondiale

Résultats de la recherche

Communion Solidarity Fund ELCJHL — Children receiving Christmas gift parcels. Photo: ELCJHL

Palestine: Solidarity in “small acts” that keep hope alive

With its income-generating activities mostly grounded by the war in Gaza, the Palestinian Lutheran church extends small acts that keep hope alive, thanks to solidarity from the Lutheran communion.

An LWF supported heating point and municipal kitchen located in the Saltovka district of Kharkiv. Through places like these, LWF distributed 35,000 hot meals daily to vulnerable populations in Kharkiv, from April t June 2023. Photo: LWF/ Anatoliy Nazarenko

Assembly condemns war against Ukraine, and weaponizing of food supply chains

In a public statement, the Thirteenth LWF Assembly, condemned the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and expressed shock at churches that “abuse their authority to justify aggression.”

Kharkiv mayor and LWF representative — Igor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv (left), and LWF country Representative Mark Mullan, discuss the possible work in Kharkiv. Photo: Mayor of Kharkiv office

Ukraine: LWF expands operations in Kharkiv

LWF representatives in Ukraine and Bishop Pavlo Shvarts of German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine met with local partners and the mayor of Kharkiv to discuss expanding LWF work in Ukraine.

Poland: Natalia and Artem — “My son is safe here”: Nataliia Bakumenko hugs her son Artem. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Poland: "They are our guests"

Poland hosts 1.5 million officially registered refugees from Ukraine. Twenty live in Betania, a holiday home of The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland in the Cieszyn Diocese near Bielsko-Biala.

10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A man walks through the rubble and shards of glass on the street of Vulytsya Tereshchenkivsʹka in central Kyiv, which hours earlier was hit by a Russian missile. Photo: LWF/ Albin Hillert

Ukraine: Lutherans in Kyiv help people in need

As Russian missiles continue to hit cities all over Ukraine, the Lutheran congregation in Kyiv and its volunteers support people in need.

Soup kitchen for refugees from Ukraine — A woman serves food at a soup kitchen for refugees from Ukraine, at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Six months in: Continued support needed for Ukraine

“Great hospitality and solidarity” by Lutheran churches

Bishop Karin Johannesson and Rev. James Hadley with the parish priests of Lampedusa, Fr Carmelo Rizzo and Fr Luca Camilleri. All photos: J Hadley and A Johannesson

Ecumenical witness to plight of Mediterranean migrants

Swedish Bishop Karin Johannesson visits Anglican and Catholic parishes on islands of Sicily and Lampedusa

Church-run support point at the Vyšné Nemecké — March 2022: A volunteer at a church-run support point at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine shares information with a refugee family who have just arrived in Slovakia. At the onset of the war, the border crossing at Vyšné Nemecké saw up to some 10,000 refugees cross each day. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Slovak church highlights Ukraine response at EU

"Churches today want to be here for others”

Wear it, share it. LWF embroidered protective face masks. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

COVID-19: Wear it, share it

Donate to Rapid Response Fund, receive free LWF mask

(LWI) - When the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worsened globally in March and the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic, several governments requested or mandated that…