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Image Lutheran World Federation annual report 2015 This report shows the harvest of work that has come before and efforts to prepare the soil for what lies ahead.
Image Department for World Service annual report 2015 This report shows that, in addition to expanding humanitarian operations in response to disasters the world over, LWF expanded its work on linking
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