Iraq: Advent stories of peace and love
Advent: Peace Gorgya Paols receives a food voucher that provides her a carton of food that will last for one month. Gorgya Paols, 63, has only one wish in this season of wishes – peace in her home country, Iraq....
Central America: Drought causes concerns for food security and livelihoods
Megan Brandsrud (Pictured: Bernardo Anastasio Hernández, a cattle farmer, stands on the dry river bed of the Río Grande at San Francisco Libre in Nicaragua. Drought is affecting large areas of Central America, where hundreds of cattle are dying,...
Central America: Drought causes concerns for food security and livelihoods
Cattle have died and crops have been completely diminished in a drought across Central America that is recorded as the region’s worst dry period in the last 30 years. The drought has impacted more than 2.5 million people across the...
Unaccompanied and Migrant Children: DC Metro Synod visits companions in El Salvador
Megan Brandsrud While news of children and families migrating to the U.S. from Central America may have slipped from national headlines, Lutheran Disaster Response is still at work providing education on the situation and assisting our partners and affiliates...
Nigeria: Emergency assistance for people fleeing as attacks continue
Megan Brandsrud Nigerians are fleeing amidst continued attacks that are believed to be the actions of Boko Haram. On Nov. 10, 2014, there was a massacre of 48 people near the territory of the Lutheran Church of Christ in...
Illinois: One year after the November tornado outbreak
Megan Brandsrud Pictured: Damage in Washington, Ill., caused by November 2013 tornadoes. Augustino/FEMA One year ago, on Nov. 17, 2013, a storm system that consisted of 73 tornadoes moved through the Midwest. Illinois was severely impacted—the tornado system that...