LWF supplies children in Laos with school equipment
(LWI) – "This is my first time seeing this,” Ms Silong exclaims. Her seven-year-old daughter Mone has just received a bag of school supplies. “My daughter is very happy about these…
Junge: Proclaim, serve without exclusion and “witness with joy and hope”
(LWI) – Speakers at The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Consultation on Contemporary Mission in Global Christianity which began here yesterday, emphasized the…
It’s a whole day’s walk for 16-year-old Sanu Lama and her friends to reach their school in Baramchi, Nepal. Sanu lives in the village of Gumba, somewhere in the Himalaya mountains of Nepal’s…
Long-standing member of Lutheran–Roman Catholic Commission on Unity passes away
Professor Turid Karlsen Seim died in Oslo on 3 November 2016 at the age of 71 after an 18 month battle with cancer. She was born on 8 October 1945 in Bergen,…
Practitioners seek new strategies and collaboration for mission work in the LWF
(LWI) – Delegates at a two-day consultation of mission practitioners in The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) member churches and partner agencies have agreed…
ADJUMANI, Uganda/ GENEVA, 25 November 2016 (LWI) – “I did not have a say in whatever was arranged. The only time I had ever met the man I was supposed to marry was at family functions. I always thought he was one of those distant family members,…
A group of over 80 people representing all LWF regions recently met in Geneva mid-November and discussed a vast variety of topics related to Contemporary Mission in Global Christianity.
(LWI) – “The world became silent and it felt like I was the only one in it.” Molly Aringo, 48, uses these words to describe the day she was diagnosed with HIV. For her it meant the end of life…
LWF human resource management training for churches in Central and East Africa
At a recent workshop focusing on empowerment, transformation and innovative ways of carrying out diaconal work, participants from LWF member churches in…
