Members of the Lutheran Church of Peru are actively participating in the claims of civil society
Members of the Lutheran Church of Peru are actively participating in the claims of Peruvian civil society for the damages caused by the...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jan 22
- 2 min
Perú coasts: oil spill cause ecological disaster
A Spanish oil company Repsol ship that was hit by the swell caused by the volcanic eruption in Tonga, thousands of miles away, spilled...
Gustavo Driau
- Jan 13
- 2 min
A country with more justice, more inclusive, and respectful of all human dignities.
The Chilean society is in the process of participatory democratic deliberation aimed at elaborating and approving a new national...
Gustavo Driau
- Jan 10
- 1 min
IELB-Bolivia- Diakonia serving women and children in Cochabamba.
Villa Belén is a human settlement in the high hills of Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is home to working families who have come from rural...
Gustavo Driau
- Jan 10
- 2 min
Peru: a distressing context due pandemic
Peru has the highest number of COVID deaths in proportion to its population. The impact of the pandemic is devastating, with 200,000...
Gustavo Driau
- May 12, 2021
- 2 min
Argentina in an acute poverty crisis
The pandemic has exposed social inequalities worldwide; at the same time, the distress is deeper. In the last three months, the...
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
Rev. Wilma Rommel, elected presiding pastor in IELU Argentina-Uruguay
The United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Argentina and Uruguay held an ordinary general assembly on April 24, 2021. The assembly was...
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 24, 2021
- 6 min
Ravaged by Covid, Brazil Faces a Hunger Epidemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/world/americas/covid-brazil-hunger.html The New York Times. Apr. 23rd, 2021 By Ernesto Londoño, Flávia...
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 12, 2021
- 3 min
Hard poverty in Argentina: Companion church and World Hunger response.
On March 31, 2021, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) of Argentina published its annual report on poverty....
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Solidarity from the Companion Church in Brazil IECLB
Mauro B. de Souza, the vice president of IECLB sent this letter supporting ELCA response to the winter storms in Texas Dear Gustavo...
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 5, 2021
- 1 min
It is Easter Sunday! Lutheran Diakonia Foundation, Brazil
“When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus'...
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 5, 2021
- 1 min
A sense of deep peace and uncontainable joy
2021 Easter Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone because they were afraid....
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 5, 2021
- 1 min
Lutheran Diakonia Foundation, Brazil. Good Friday 2021
Good Friday 2021. Lutheran Diakonia Foundation, Brazil "Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of...
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 2, 2021
- 6 min
Lack of progress in the implementation of the Colombia peace process
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-03-30/politics-peace-and-poverty-a-powder-keg-called-colombia.html Politics, peace and poverty: a...
Gustavo Driau
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
Katie Kline is now a called and ordained ELCA minister of Word and Service.
Katherine Christina Andert Kline is now a called and ordained minister of Word and Service in the church of Christ. On October 31st,...
Gustavo Driau
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not work or spin
Amid pebbles and fog, yellow and solitary, the Amancaes lilies return every year. When Lima turns grayer than ever, and winter increases,...
Gustavo Driau
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
Conversations on Migrants Ministries
On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, companion churches from Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru participated in conversations with the...
Gustavo Driau
- Sep 8, 2020
- 6 min
Lutheran School of Theology, Bogotá Colombia
The Lutheran School of Theology (LST) is a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia, IELCO. Nelida Mora is the coordinator...
Gustavo Driau
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
IELB programs promote rights for children and adolescents
Bolivia faces crucial human development challenges, a difficult situation in one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Structural...
Gustavo Driau
- Aug 22, 2020
- 3 min
Programmatic and staffing changes in Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Dear brothers and sisters, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will...