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LWF Council 2026 Genf Question of the day: What will you personally take home from this week?

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LWF Council 2026 Genf Question of the day: What gives you hope in challenging times?

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LWF Council 2026 Genf Question of the day: What is one word that describes the spirit of this Council meeting?

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LWF Council 2026 Genf Question of the day: What is one thing from your church or region that more people around the world should know?

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LWF Council 2026 Genf Question of the day: If you can meet Martin Luther today, what one question would you ask him?

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LWF Council 2026 Question of the day: What connects churches across cultures, in your experience?

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Message from Maria Immonen, Director, LWF World Service. #WRD2026

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As a new year, 2025, draws near, LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt reminds the LWF communion of the call to “an ongoing transformation of our minds, hearts, and attitudes.”

In his Christmas message to the global communion of churches, LWF President Henrik Stubkjær, Bishop of the Viborg Diocese, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark, asks where the star of Bethlehem i...

To mark the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt urges churches, governments, communities and individuals to unite to end violence against...

To mark the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt urges churches, governments, communities and individuals to unite to end violence against...

”The connection between faith and hope is fundamental. We must make every effort necessary to protect all of Creation,” says LWF delegate to COP29 Nathaly Quito from the Evangelical Lutheran Church...

Romario Dohmann from Argentina reflects on his experience as an LWF delegate at the United Nations climate summit COP29 underway in Baku, Azerbaijan. The LWF is present at the COP this year throug...

Living as Neighbours: Episode 7 Marianna, a psychologist and anthropologist, moved from Warsaw with her family to a house in the forest on the Polish-Belarussian border. In 2021 she began helping...

Living as Neighbours: Episode 6 Alarmed by a rise in populism and anti-immigrant rhetoric in his country, Polish journalist and university lecturer Karol Wilczyński co-founded Salam Lab to give v...

Living as Neighbours: Episode 4 Sanela was a teacher in 2018 when police in her northern Bosnian town of Cljuč began stopping buses to turn back migrants seeking to cross the border into Croatia....

Living as Neighbours: Episode 3 A Greek citizen, Thanasis was driving in his car in 2014 when he first heard about migrant children, who survived a shipwreck, being pushed back into the sea by co...

Living as Neighbours: Episode 1 Originally from Congo, Rouddy was detained in Mória refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, before founding RAD (Refugee African Dance) Music International to ...

Living as Neighbours: Episode 2 Originally from Wales, Philippa moved to Greece with her husband and young daughter in search of a quiet life by the sea. But in 2014, on the way to school, she st...

This video introduces LWF’s work for people affected by the Ukraine war in Kharkiv. Only 40 kilometers from the Russian border, the city has been the target of frequent missile attacks in 2023. Mee...