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Refugees walking on the railways at the border between Hungary and Serbia. Photo: ELCH/ Zsuzsanna Horvath-Bolla

LWF General Secretary urges upholding of human rights

Churches need to influence moral values and policy

(LWI) - Churches need to stand against the deterioration of humanitarian values and human rights, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary, Rev. Dr Martin Junge, said in…

A volunteer welcomes 40 people from Lebanon at Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday, January 29, 2018. Families and individuals will be living in different regions, depending on reception possibilities. Photo: Jean-Michel Hitter/FEP

Churches in France open “Humanitarian Corridors”

Safe passage for refugees from Lebanon

(LWI) - Churches in France, among them the LWF member church, have united to welcome refugees to the country. The “Humanitarian Corridors” project follows a similar example from Italy. Its purpose is…

Members of the Colombian Commission of Jurists detail the situation in their country at a Human Rights Council side event on 16 March 2018. Photo: LWF/ Peter Kenny

Increase of attacks on human rights defenders in Colombia

LWF supports Colombian Commission of Jurists

(LWI) - Despite the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the main guerrilla group, human rights violations continue. A parallel report assembled by the Lutheran World Federation…

Children play at one of the water collection tanks between the Mailoti river and Minawao refugee camp. Photos: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

The journey of water

LWF provides safe drinking water for Boko Haram refugees in Cameroon

(LWI) - Twenty liters - this is the recommended minimum amount of clean water every person should have at their disposal every day. What seems like quite a restriction…

Selling waffles, a favorite dish, after worship was one way to raise to money for children in Uganda. Photo: Stefan Mar Gunnlaugsson / The Evangelical Church of Iceland

Icelandic Youth collect for Uganda

Youth Day of Icelandic church to support orphans of HIV and AIDS

(LWI) - Solidarity from the northernmost country of the world to sub-Saharan Africa: Young Lutherans from Iceland have raised 500,000 IKR (5,000 USD) to support a program of…

A man plays football with his children in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan, while another man, wounded in fighting in Syria, looks on. Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT

LWF and ecumenical partners link to #WithRefugees solidarity tour

Faith organizations join hands with UN in campaign for refugees

(LWI) - The #WithRefugees World Tour kicks off today with a sports day in the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan. The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), World Council of Churches…

Early in the morning, a boy runs amid the tents in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 20,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria, but its numbers are growing. Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT

Be the voices and hands of hope!

Church of Norway Urges Refugee Welcome by Church and State

(LWI) - The Church of Norway has issued a striking plea to the country’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg to show courage by offering a…

A mother and her child in one of the LWF health centers. The child is being treated for severe malnourishment. Photo: LWF DRC

13 million Congolese in need of support

Humanitarian needs have doubled since 2017

(LWI) The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is calling partners and donors to support the emergency response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The United Nations have indicated that DRC is…

Dr Ojot Miru Ojulu has been appointed new Assistant General Secretary for International Affairs and Human Rights

“We must speak out against injustice”

Dr Ojot Miru Ojulu appointed LWF Assistant General Secretary for International Affairs and Human Rights

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation has appointed human rights expert Dr Ojot Miru Ojulu to the position of Assistant General…

A woman clears a plot of land in Moxico, Angola. Although the land belongs to the community, village chiefs can lease it to outside investors. All photos: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

Securing land and livelihoods in Angola

LWF works to protect communities from land grabbing

(LWI) - In Angola, farming communities are vulnerable to losing their land. Foreign investment presses its way into the country, endangering small scale farming and authorities offer…