Features

Religious Leaders’ Voice Urged in the Call for Bread, Freedom and Social Justice

PARDAMEAN, Indonesia/GENEVA, 5 April 2012 (LWI) – Farmer Jaya Hotman Turnip used to struggle every year when the rains came.

“I was always short of funds and could never cultivate our entire ancestral land,” Turnip said recently at his maize farm at Pardamean, a remote village in the North Sumatra province of Indonesia.

LWF Partners on Women’s Rights

LALITPUR, Nepal/GENEVA, 8 March 2012 (LWI) – It was a shock for Manmaya Shrestha when her husband broke his legs in a farming accident 15 years ago in Nepal’s rural Lalitpur district and her family lost its only source of income.

Anderson-Rajkumar: “Support for the Underprivileged Is but a Form of Worship”

CHENNAI, India/GENEVA, 8 March 2012 (LWI) – As Rev. Dr Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar recounts moments in her life that have shaped what she is today, her mind is already occupied—preparing for next week’s national program, presentations for national or international conferences, Lenten sermons, supervising four of her students’ theses, and all this along with helping her 11-year-old daughter Davina with her homework and exams.

LWF Program Supports Women’s Leadership Efforts

DINAJPUR, Bangladesh/GENEVA, 8 March 2012 (LWI) –They call her the “shining star” in the village.

Sisilia Murmu is a talented young girl who had always dreamed of gaining an education and financial independence, but her family’s poverty kept her from attending high school in Dhanjoypur village, located in the Dinajpur district of northern Bangladesh.

LWF Affirms Women in Ordained Ministry as Step towards Gender Justice

MEXICO CITY, Mexico/GENEVA, 7 March 2012 (LWI) – When Rev. Karina García Carmona was installed as pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Mexico City in 2011, her congregation posed a simple question: do you want to be called “Pastor”?

Education Transforms Lives of Sudanese Women

JUBA, South Sudan/GENEVA, 6 March 2012 (LWI) – “If you have an education, you value your life,” says Mary Abuk Dow.

Only one in six women in South Sudan are fortunate enough to have an education and those who do, know their worth. Women like Dow are determined and have an imposing presence. You meet them often in South Sudan as well as in refugee camps outside the country and even further afield.

The Lasting Effect of Conflict on South Sudan’s Education System

JUBA, South Sudan/GENEVA, 8 February 2012 (LWI) – There is a hunger for education in South Sudan that is obvious wherever you go.

Young people will travel hundreds of kilometers to attend school or university. Old people in the most impoverished areas will ask a visitor for food, but young people will ask for scholarships.

The Story of Manyok and His Family in South Sudan

BOR, South Sudan/GENEVA, 30 January 2012 (LWI) – Manyok is the father of a Dinka family living in Jonglei State, South Sudan.

He married his wife Rebecca two years ago and they have a one-year-old child. Rebecca’s father died many years ago, so when Manyok married her, he took responsibility for her, her sister, two brothers and mother.