(LWI) - International humanitarian and development faith- based networks have urged governments preparing for next week’s COP 21 United Nations climate summit in Paris to do their outmost to reach a fair, binding, and ambitious agreement as…
LWF Peace Oasis in Jordan counters the effects of Syrian war
(LWI) - “I wish to become a teacher,” Salam says. The six-year-old girl has just started school and is one of the many children visiting the Peace Oasis in Za’atari refugee camp…
National Bishop Johnson: Living out the call to be a church in mission for others
National and regional staff from several different Lutheran bodies in Canada are coming together for the first time to sponsor a Syrian refugee family. …
Myanmar Lutheran churches contribution to education in the country
(LWI) - Shwe Lone wanted to go to school so he could help his congregation with its spiritual and community work in the village of Pyaingcho in Myanmar - but he wasn’t…
Highlighting conflict zones on International Day of People with Disabilities
(LWI) - The rough ground of a public park, which became a camp for people displaced by the ISIS advance, is an unlikely place to see a wheelchair. Especially as…
PARIS, France/GENEVA, 29 November 2015 (LWI) – Saturday, 28 November, marked the beginning of the ecumenical and interfaith cooperation at COP21 in Paris. Four petitions by ACT Now for Climate Justice (part of ACT Alliance), the Global…
GENEVA, 1 December 2015 (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), through the regional HIV and AIDS network, are among several churches in the Lutheran communion that observe…
PARIS, France, 2 December 2015 (LWI) - Over 20 faith leaders, with youth, political and civil society representatives sat down for a unique lunch at COP21 at a table with knives and…
LWF Nepal supports networks that empower people living with disabilities
(LWI) – Growing up for Balarni Chaudhary was difficult. She has only one leg and lost her father when she was very young. She felt she was a burden to her family.…
