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“For every dream there is a color”

The Lutheran World Federation organized its first interfaith “Peace Messengers Training” in September 2017. The participants gained skills and tools on advocacy, negotiation and mediation. They…

Peace Messengers training in Jerusalem. Photo: LWF / Ben Gray

Inclusive peacebuilding means peace for all

The Lutheran World Federation organized its first interfaith “Peace Messengers Training” in September 2017. Young people from different parts of the world and faith tradition gained skills and…

Rev. Sally Azar — LWF Council Member for Asia Sally Azar set for ordination in home church and LWF member church the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. Photo: LWF/A. Hillert

First Palestinian woman to be ordained as pastor in the Holy Land

Sally Azar, LWF Council Member and graduate of intercultural theology in Göttingen talks about her upcoming ordination and how she hopes it will promote greater gender justice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land.…

Yousef has opened a metal workshop in Ash-Shuyuk and provides employment to his brother. Photo: LWF Jerusalem/T. Montgomery

Jerusalem: Successful LWF Vocational Training Graduates

“A Decision I will never regret”

(LWI) – Since 1949, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Jerusalem program has offered a vocational training program for Palestinian youth. The program provides training in automobile repair, carpentry,…

The Arabic version of the LWF Gender Justice Policy was launched at the workshop in Beit Jala. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay

Changing laws and patriarchal attitudes go hand in hand

Arabic version of LWF Gender Justice Policy launched in West Bank and Gaza

(LWI) - Unequal pay, unemployment, early marriages, and violence against women remain key challenges for women in the West Bank and Gaza, in spite of increased…

Workshop co-organizer Suad Younan, middle, encouraged the Holy Land church to use its prophetic voice and tools to challenge ecclesiastical and socio-political fixtures, during the launch of the gender justice policy in Arabic. Photo: LWF/E. Neuenfeldt

Open dialogue and training at Holy Land gender justice seminar

The Lutheran World Federation's gender justice policy has been translated into Arabic. LWF member, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, hosted a workshop that incorporated the launch of the Arabic version. The policy…

Students watch as a teacher demonstrates a technique in the carpentry workshop. The summer camp encouraged girls and boys to also explore career choices beyond those stereotypically assigned to their gender. Photo: LWF Jerusalem

Sports and practical work experience

LWF summer camp provides career orientation for youth in Beit Hanina, Palestine

Inspired by the Mahatma Gandhi’s motto, “The brain must be educated through the hand,” young people aged 13-17 years from different places in East Jerusalem…

Group discussion during the training among Hanna Wright-Osborn (left) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Levi Joniel (centre) of The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria and Angelica Oquendo (right) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia. Photo: LWF/Ben Gray

Equipping youth as interfaith messengers of peace

LWF training in Jerusalem paves way for a global toolkit

(LWI) – Young people from Christian and Muslim backgrounds around the world who took part in a training on peace building skills and practice in Jerusalem, say they are going back…