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Staff from multi-purpose cash assistance centres across Poland – established to support incoming refugees to Poland from Ukraine – gather in Bytom for a full-week training in 'community-based psychosocial support' provided through ACT Church of Sweden. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert
Poland: Community centers for Ukrainian refugees and host communities
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21 Oct 2022
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21 Oct 2022
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LWF’s President and General Secretary are in Bratislava for the first Church Leadership Consultation in the Central Eastern Europe since the pandemic, focusing on the church’s role in promoting peace and reconciliation in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Central East European leaders meet to discuss peace, reconciliation
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20 Oct 2022
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20 Oct 2022
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The Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa meets for its 11th Assembly and celebrates 30-years of communion in the subregion. Photo: LUCS/R. Mofulatsi
Churches journey together in Southern Africa
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20 Oct 2022
20 Oct 2022
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Scripture scholars Rev. Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, associate pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church, and Rev. Dr Jean Koulagna, director of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology Al Mowafaqa in Rabat. Photo: Montage LWF/S. Gallay 
Webinar series marks 500 years of Bible translation
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19 Oct 2022
  • Theology
19 Oct 2022
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10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A man walks through the rubble and shards of glass on the street of Vulytsya Tereshchenkivsʹka in central Kyiv, which hours earlier was hit by a Russian missile. Photo: LWF/ Albin Hillert
Ukraine: Lutherans in Kyiv help people in need
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18 Oct 2022
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18 Oct 2022
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The mobile mammography screening unit, the “Pink Bus”, at Singel village in Ramallah on 3rd October 2022. The bus offers free screenings to women in Palestine and the West Bank. Photo: AVH
"Pink October” in East Jerusalem
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17 Oct 2022
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17 Oct 2022
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A display at the MAGMA interactive museum of risk showcases LWF Colombia-Venezuela's work in pioneering in ethnically sensitive approaches to disaster risk reduction. Photo: LWF Colombia
Colombian museum features LWF project
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14 Oct 2022
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14 Oct 2022
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Panel on the situation of minority churches in the Central and Western Europe region. (From left) Michael Martin (moderator), Andreas Wöhle (Protestant Church in the Netherlands), Anna Krauss (Lutheran Council of Great Britain), Renate Dienst (Federation of Evangelical-Lutheran Churches in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein), Michael Chalupka (Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria), and Ulrich Rüsen-Weinhold (United Protestant Church of France). Photo: LWF/A. Weyermüller
European Churches called to be messengers of hope and reconciliation
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12 Oct 2022
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12 Oct 2022
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LWF General Secretary Anne Burghardt during her address at the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the GNC/LWF. Photo: TSK/Paul-Philipp Braun
Germany: Contributing to the communion of churches
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11 Oct 2022
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