CWS works with local communities to improve lives and livelihoods, meet humanitarian needs, and end poverty and injustice - a member of the global ACT Alliance.
ACT Alliance members are on the ground when it matters most. Millions rely on #humanitariansofUkraine to stay safe and survive. Let’s all come together to ensure they can continue their life-saving work. We must #ActForHumanity.
#HopeInAction
On Friday, we officially launched our Sautu Voyage 2024.
On Sunday morning, Mama Uto & her crew will depart Fiji for Nukualofa to attend the #PIFLM53 later this month.
The journey will take approx. 5 - 7 days & will see several veterans & new crew members undertake the passage.
The Israelis are eliminating one of the last Christian Palestinians strongholds in the West Bank and the place I chose to stay when I was researching the Palestinian Christians in From the Holy Mountain. It is a place with an incredibly ancient history, a cradle of Christianity, and its people have some of the closest DNA matches to the people of the time of Christ. Why is no one reporting this?
Palestinian Christian leader @MuntherIsaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, is in the U.S. to push faith leaders to oppose U.S. support for Israel's war on Gaza. "If you're silent knowing how your money is being spent, that means you approve."
Much leaded medical supplies get to #Gaza thanks to the persistence and care of so many people and organisations - it's just not enough. Thanks @lutheranworld for this critical work.
The LWF has sent the first much awaited medical shipment to the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. On 10 August the hospital received the consignment including medication for cancer and other treatment, and basic hospital supplies.
Read more lutheranworld.org/news/first…#Gaza#AVH
Reporting from #Gaza. “The war has no rules. There is no respect for human rights, and there is indiscriminate killing,” said Hamad. “But we are Palestinian, so we don’t ever give up," Dr Bassam Abu Hamad #DSPR Gaza. #WCC@ACTAlliance
'The only way to categorically ensure arms sold to Israel are not used in violation of human rights is with a black and white ban. That is what this new government should be ready to do. No ifs and buts.' -William Bell, Christian Aid
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“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023.
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I lament yesterday's decision by an Israeli military court to renew Layan Nasir’s administrative detention for a further four months.
This young Palestinian Christian from Birzeit in the West Bank has been held in detention since 6 April on classified evidence that leaves her facing unknown allegations with no way to disapprove them – not knowing when she will be released, all the time without being charged, tried or convicted.
This is an egregious state of affairs, as is the fact that her transfer outside the West Bank to Damon Prison is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
I ask the Israeli Government to look again at her case and that she be released. The widespread and routine manner in which Israel uses administrative detention of Palestinians as an instrument of Occupation is deeply discriminatory. It cannot be legally or morally justified.
May God watch over Layan during her detention and comfort her family at this testing time. #FreeLayan
ALT A picture of a young Layan Nasir. She has long dark hair and brown eyes. She is smiling and looking happy.
French High Commission in #NewCaledonia reports that “the forces of order have made 2,235 arrests (1,252 in the police zone and 983 in the gendarmerie zone)”, as of 2 August. The 10pm-5am overnight curfew is maintained for another week, until 12 August.
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