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Meeting in Wittenberg, German and Tanzanian Lutheran church leaders stated their commitment to ongoing mutual conversations and exchange. Photo: VELKD/Gundolf Holfert

German and Tanzanian Lutheran leaders affirm mutual solidarity

Wittenberg meeting on “Reformation and One World”

Communion
Churches
News
11 Mar 2016
Visiting France in early March, LWF President Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan, called for a new, concerted effort to renew global commitment to confront the destructive cultural impulses of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

Global conflict risks escalating extremism, LWF President warns in France

Churches must strengthen robust moderation in society

Unity
Governance
News
10 Mar 2016
Radeer Attawil's story is one of many featured this year in celebration of International Women's Day. Photo: LWF/ Jerusalem

International Women's Day 2016

GENEVA, 8 March 2016 --International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March represents an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the social

Theology
Communion
Gender
News
08 Mar 2016
Ghadeer Altawil at her work station in Beit Hanina. Photo: LWF/ Jerusalem

Young women with a knack for electronics

JERUSALEM/ GENEVA, 8 March 2015 (LWI) - In a cellphone shop along the main road in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, Ghadeer

Theology
Humanitarian
Gender
News
08 Mar 2016
LWF and ILC representatives met at the International Lutheran Center in Wittenberg, Germany. Photo: ILC

Global Lutheran bodies discuss the journey from conflict to communion

Interaction with each other at local and global levels

Unity
Churches
News
08 Mar 2016
Maria discusses women's rights in her congregation. To protect the young woman from the gangs, she has to remain anonymous. Photo: LWF/ B. Platero

With hope against gang violence

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras/ GENEVA, 8 March 2016 (LWI) – The life of 25-year-old María (not her real name) resembles building a house on quicksand:

Humanitarian
Gender
News
08 Mar 2016
Bowba mint Brahim and Aichetou mint Khayling demonstrate their solar panels. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

Women engineers brighten the village

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania/ GENEVA, 7.

Theology
Humanitarian
Gender
News
07 Mar 2016
Women-friendly space in Davudiya refugee camp, Northern Iraq. Photo: LWF/ Seivan Salim

Where lives and cultures meet

(LWI) – “We are six people in our tent,” Sory Rasno, 40, says. “At night the wind keeps us awake. There is no privacy, no space.

Theology
Humanitarian
Gender
News
07 Mar 2016
Participants in an LWF-facilitated project management workshop for the Lutheran Church in Cambodia. Photo: Sally Lim

Join diaconal workers sharing good project management practice

GENEVA, 9 March 2016 (LWI) - Today, more lay people are involved in the day-to-day running of church projects, accountability is impr

Churches
News
07 Mar 2016
Representatives of Lutheran churches in East and Central Africa expressed solidarity with over 200 million women and girls  globally who have suffered female genital mutilation. Photo: LWF/Afram Pete

FGM is life threatening – end it now

Lutheran churches support new strategy to fight FGM

Churches
News
03 Mar 2016
Thousands of people have been displaced by the Burundi crisis. These people fled to safety in Tanzania. Photo: LWF

Humanitarian crisis in Burundi

BUJUMBURA, Burundi/ GENEVA, 2 March 2016 (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) together with the ACT alliance is urgently asking for support

Humanitarian
News
02 Mar 2016
Rev. Dr Busi Suneel Bhanu (second left), other LWF member church representatives and staff, at the February meeting of the study group on Lutheran engagement in the public space, in Sigtuna, Sweden. Photo: LWF

Equal access, safety and meaningful participation

Interview with Rev. Dr Busi Suneel Bhanu on the role churches play in the public space

Theology
News
01 Mar 2016

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