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Faustina Nillan, national director for women and children in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Photo: Doug Hostetter

UN side event highlights churches’ successes in furthering Sustainable Development Goals

A parallel event at UN Commission on the Status of Women highlights work of the ecumenical “Waking the Giant” initiative

(LWI) - Ecumenical development experts from around the world, meeting at the…

Planting trees has become part of church life in ELCT: (from the right) Bishop Fredrik Shoo, Rev. Faustine Kahwa, Rev. Solomon Massawe and students attending confirmation classes preparing for a tree planting in Tanzania's Northern Diocese. Photo: ELCT

A passion for creation

Fredrick Shoo: the bishop who plants trees

(LWI) – The glaciers are melting, and the snow is retreating at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. As he was observing this from his doorstep at the foot of the mountain, which is a landmark…

Bishop Fredrick Onael Shoo from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s (ELCT) Northern Diocese. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Twenty-years of tree-planting for a sustainable future

Participants of the Climate Justice Forum meeting in Tanzania, joined by ELCT Bishop Fredrik Shoo (center). Photo: ELCT

Africa: A faith-based roadmap for climate justice

Drawing on experience and taking further steps to counter the climate emergency

(LWI) – “The goal of the meeting was to strengthen our advocacy for climate justice by developing a faith-based roadmap for climate action in the Africa…