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2003 News Releases

A man carries a backback from a destroyed house in the heart of the ancient city of Bam December 28, 2003. Rescuers held out little hope of finding more survivors in the rubble of the earthquake which has killed up to 30,000 people. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay , courtesy www.alertnet.org.

December 29, 2003:

• Lutheran World Relief Rushes $25,000 In Aid To Iran As Earthquake Toll Rises
  
  

December 27, 2003:

• Iran Earthquake Toll Is Tens Of Thousands: Lutheran World Relief Opens Aid Channels To Survivors, Requests Donations
  
  
  

December 18, 2003:

• New Bethlehem Website for Peacemakers Online This Advent
  
• Holy Land Advent Visit in Progress: Read the Diaries Page
  
• Fair Trade Gets Big Boost for Christmas: Good News for Small Coffee, Cocoa Producers
  
• ‘All Our Children' Brings a Spark to Beleaguered Children in Baghdad
  
• Catholic Parishes to Begin Serving the Fair Trade Coffee Lutherans Use
  
• After Six Years, 141 Nations Back Mine-Ban Treaty
  
• Three New Staff Enhance LWR's Effectiveness

November 26, 2003:

• For World AIDS Day:
  $5 Billion Phone Calls and 31 Reasons for Hope
  
• A Pastor A Week: Churches Pay High Price For Standing Against Colombia's Violence

November 7, 2003:

• Betty Lee Nyhus, Pioneer for Women in Leadership and Mission
  
• Moving 90-Ton Mountain of Fair Trade Coffee:
  Parishes Make Strong Start
  
• Youth Stand, and Learn, With Africa On-Line

October 22, 2003:

• "We're Here Because You Can Help," Colombian Peace Delegation Tells Midwest Audiences

October 16, 2003:

• Colombian Women Visit Midwest to Help End World's Longest War
• Java Justice: Church Aid Groups Working Together for Nicaragua's Coffee Farmers
• Two Tv Shows and One ‘Crop for Christ'

October 3, 2003:

• A 90-Ton Challenge: Double the Use of Fair Trade Coffee
• LWR's Gender and Development Expertise Featured at Capitol Hill Briefing
• You 'Allow Us to Dream' Overseas Partners Tell LWR Board
• See the"Luther" Film and Appreciate Reformer's Wider Legacy

September 17, 2003:

• U.S. Coffee Giant Agrees to Buy Fair Trade Coffee After Negotiations with Advocacy, Shareholder Group
• Making Trade Work for the Poor…and for Palm Sunday
• People-to-People Health Project Meeting Basic Needs in Iraq,
  but Security is Key

 

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	David Weefah walked for three days to reach Salala camp. The raw patches on his back are from carrying his disabled brother. Weefah is part of an influx that has packed Salala town with over 100,000 displaced people. Photo: Callie Long/ACT International.

September 10, 2003:

• LWR Acts to Make Trade Fair for Farmers Who Bring You…Chocolate!
• In Liberia: ‘Last Minute’ Looters Mar Prospects as Peacekeepers and Aid Workers Slowly Gain Ground
• Plaza of 1,000 Good Samaritans Ready for Rededication This Month
• After the Flood in Orissa: Assuring Relief, Rehabilitation and Survivors’ Rights
  

August 25, 2003:

• Despite Aid Distribution, All is Far From Well in Liberia
• Announcing Two LWR Coffee Project Study Visits
• LWR Endorses Holy Land Trip

August 21, 2003:

• In Wake of Blast, News from Iraq Runs the Gamut

August 12, 2003:

• Tenuous Times at LWR-Supported Phebe Hospital During Lurd Occupation

August 7, 2003:

• Calm in Monrovia Aids LWR Relief Efforts
• LWR Among NGO Contingent With Solution for Ethiopia

July 30, 2003:

• LWR Assisting in Liberia Crisis

July 22, 2003:

• This Story Needs Telling: See it For Yourself
• No Time to be in Monrovia, But New Aid Arrives Safely

July 17, 2003:

• Lutheran World Federation Condemns Late-Night Search of
  Jerusalem Hospital by Israeli Forces
• Dr. John Bachman, Educator, Author, LWR Historian and
  Board Member, Dies
• Beds, Vegetables and Books are Latest Gifts for Iraqi Children
• LWR in the News: Charity That Makes the Grade
• Hoping for a Blizzard of Postcards This Summer
• An Invitation to Celebrate a Thousand Bricks

July 2, 2003:

• Twelve Million Hungry People in Ethiopia? "Unprecedented"
• Stabilization Force, Plus More Aid, Needed Now in Liberia
• It's Finally Raining in Rajasthan and Village Ponds are Ready

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	A barley field in Llihua community, Huaynacotas District, Peru where LWR and two local partner organizations active in the area mounted a response to severe weather conditions last year.

June 9, 2003:

• Iraq Aid is for Basic Needs Two Months After War
• The Distance to Mid-East Peace: Going to a Daughter’s Graduation,
  Stopping a Million-Dollar Tax Decision
• Liberians Flee New Fighting Near Capital, Some Aid Continues
• The Silver Lining in Last Year’s Snow Storm (see photo, right)

May 23, 2003:

• Muhlenberg College Confers Doctorate on LWR President Wolford
• Lutheran World Relief as Matchmaker: Introducing North to South
  

May 16, 2003:

• Results Now Visible From Aid Work in Iraq
• New Focus on Meeting the Challenges of Colombia’s Displaced People
• PBS TV Program to Include Baghdad Aid Story
  

May 1, 2003:

• In Once Forbidden Places, Find Women and Children Still at War
• What Baghdad Needs Now? Safety, Health and Daily Bread
• Aid for Refugees and Communities in Sierra Leone and Liberia

April 22, 2003:

• Some of Iraq’s Tension Spills Into No-Man’s-Land Near Jordan
• Vignettes of Courage and Resourcefulness - With Looters in the Streets
  and Graves in the Garden
• Letter from Action by Churches Together (ACT)

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	A shop owner in Haseke, Syria, paints a red crescent for military aircraft to see on the top of a relief truck bound for Iraq. The truck reached Mosul safely April 7 with canned food and 1500 blankets purchased by the Middle East Council of Churches. The crescent identifies Red Cross sister organizations in the Middle East and the Syrian Red Crescent helped facilitate the shipment.

April 11, 2003:

• Iraq Update: Some Food, One Truck, Silent Phones
• Students In Iowa Fast Each Night for Needy People in Iraq
• 'Sweet Water' Will Replace the Salty Drops of Drought in India

April 3, 2003:

• Helping Clinics And Kids "To Better Weather The War"
• Parish Purchases of Fair Trade Coffee Jump 64% in Past Year

March 27, 2003:

• Baghdad Church Shelters: Frightened Neighbors Under the Roof, Spaghetti in the Cupboard and a Well in the Yard
• LWR Report Card has "A+" and Other Good Grades
• Iraq has Aid Ready to Roll - $3 Will Help Keep One Child Healthy for Six Months
• Readers: Call Your Newspaper and Ask for LWR to be Listed for "How to Help" in Iraq

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	Medicine from the "All Our Children" campaign reached here, Al Mansour Hospital in Baghdad, in the first days of the war. In the 1990s, after the last Gulf War, water-born and respiratory diseases pushed Iraq's infant mortality rate up faster than in another other country in the world. "All Our Children" is sponsored by LWR and eight other agencies to raise one million dollars for medicines for children in Iraq. Click to learn more about "All Our Children"

March 21, 2003:

• In Churches, Hospitals and Camps, Aid Ready and in Progress for Iraqi Families and Children. Contributions Needed.

March 19, 2003:

• More Aid Now Is Critical for 11 Million Hungry People in Ethiopia, Agency Heads Tell Washington

March 13, 2003:

• Report from Ethiopia: "Outcome of Food Crisis Yet to be Written"

March 12, 2003:

• In Wake of Airport Bomb Blast, Modeling a More Peaceful Mindanao
• Lutheran and Catholic Aid Leaders Assessing Food Needs in Ethiopia
• New Information for AIDS, Colombia Advocacy Available From LWR

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	Aid distribution near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Click to read more about the African Food Crisis. Photo: Kathryn Wolford/LWR

March 7, 2003:

• Mid-East Christians Still Hope for Peace, but Prepare to Open Churches as Shelters from War
• First Shipment Reaches Baghdad, Destined for 'All Our Children'
• Iraq Humanitarian Aid Must be Impartial and Independent, says Worldwide Church Aid Alliance
• LWR President is New Chair of Worldwide Church Aid Alliance

February 14, 2003:

• LWR Joins Campaign for Iraq's Neediest Children
• Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Urge 'People of Compassion' to Protect 'The Innocents' Via Iraq Aid Campaign
• Aid Work and War Plans Must Not be Mixed, Agencies Urge Administration

 

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