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Despite her disability, Balarni Chaudhary can depend on the skills she acquired to support herself and her family. Photo: LWF Nepal
Disability is not inability – one woman’s story
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3 Dec 2015
  • Humanitarian
3 Dec 2015
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Drawing water from a source that was recently rehabilitated by the LWF in Nana Mambéré, Central African Republic. Photo: LWF/CAR
Faith-based humanitarian groups say Pope’s visit to CAR offered hope
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2 Dec 2015
2 Dec 2015
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An interfaith group of religious leaders sits in front of empty trays during a public action promoting the Fast for the Climate campaign during the COP21 UN climate summit in Paris, France. Photo: LWF/R. Rodrick Beiler
Faith leaders urge action at UN climate talks
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2 Dec 2015
  • Churches
  • Unity
2 Dec 2015
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ELCT’s HIV and AIDS awareness building efforts includes seminars for married couples. Photo: ELCT
Parishioners’ support helps to fight AIDS stigma in Tanzania
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2 Dec 2015
  • Churches
  • Gender
2 Dec 2015
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The outline of candle lit global map used to remember those affected by AIDS around the world. Photo: LWF/P.Cuyatti
AIDS: Churches work across local networks in Latin America and Caribbean
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1 Dec 2015
1 Dec 2015
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Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, dances with Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of South Africa to celebrate some 1.8 million signatures on an interfaith petition for climate justice during the COP21 climate summit in Paris, France. Photo: LWF/R. Rodrick Beiler
Nearly 2 million people-of-faith petition on the eve of COP21
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29 Nov 2015
  • Humanitarian
  • Churches
29 Nov 2015
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Nisreen Haji’s face lit up when she was placed into a wheelchair given to her by the Lutheran World Federation and partners CAPNI and Al Ghazel in early December 2014. Photo: LWF/S. Cox
New wheel chair creates mobility, eases burden on family
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27 Nov 2015
  • Humanitarian
27 Nov 2015
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Thanks to the work of the Lutheran churches in Myanmar, children from marginalized communities can go to school and aspire to a brighter future. Photo: LWF/I. Dorji
Healing wounds of isolation and deprivation
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27 Nov 2015
  • Churches
27 Nov 2015
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Residents of Za'atari refugee camp, seen here after a snow storm in 2014, play in the remaining patches of snow. Canadian Lutherans hope to bring a Syrian family to Canada. LWF Jordan/J. Pfattner
Canadian Lutherans work together to sponsor Syrian refugee family
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27 Nov 2015
  • Humanitarian
  • Churches
27 Nov 2015
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