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Zoraya Urbina, LWF Central America advocacy officer . Photo: LWF

A blanket that shelters us equally

This year, the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) put women’s participation in public life at the center of its deliberations. The theme for this year was Women’s full and…

The Spanish coastguard intercepts a traditional fishing boat carrying African migrants off the island of Tenerife in the Canaries. Photo: UNHCR/A. Rodriguez / 24 October 2007

Central America: young migrants flee gang violence

LWF Council asks for advocacy for migrants

GENEVA, 5 August 2015 (LWI) - During its 2015 annual meeting, the Council of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) endorsed a resolution concerning migrants. In this resolution, it “expressed its…

Christian Chavarria Ayala in his workshop. Photo: Juan ArrietaÂ

A symbol of life and hope

(LWI) – There is a white dove on almost every cross that Christian Chavarria Ayala paints. The artist sits in his studio on the upper floor of the La Résurrection Lutheran congregation in San Salvador and dips a paintbrush into blue paint for the…

Pabla, 19 (fourth from the left), experienced as a child how her father left for the US and stayed there 4 years with close to no contact to his family. When he returned, he was a stranger to her. Now her oldest brother has gone to the US and was kidnapped on the way. Photo: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

Salvadoran bishop asks Christians in the US to welcome refugees and migrants

Call for “Love and solidarity”

(LWI) The bishop of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church has urged the people of the United States not to “permit your government to commit a sin against Human Rights” by restricting immigration and taking action…