

CWS New Zealand
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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."


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-shi… #Gaza #AVH

WCC leadership meets parents of detained Palestinian Anglican student oikoumene.org/news/wcc-leade… 📷Albin Hillert/WCC

Medical staff share realities from the field in #Gaza #WCC #MECC #ACT #Caritas #DSPR 🔗oikoumene.org/news/medical-s…

'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 theguardian.com/world/article/…





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. nouvelle-caledonie.gouv.fr/contenu/telech…
