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All of society benefits from healthy marriages.
The Forum Ehe+Familie (FEF) welcomes and supports the proposal by National Councillor Marc Jost [1] to strengthen marriages, partnerships, and couples. Stable relationships significantly enhance quality of life and substantially reduce economic costs. The network partners of Forum Ehe+Familie encounter
Add to the growth of Orphan Sunday: November 10 2024
For the Christian community, every day is a good day to pray for orphaned and vulnerable children. Yet one day on the calendar uniquely reminds us of that invitation—Orphan Sunday, which is being observed on November 10 this year. The
Single-parent and childless families already outnumber ‘traditional families’ in Spain
According to the latest census data in Spain, for the first time the proportion of so-called ‘traditional families’, consisting of two parents and one or more children, is no longer the majority. The sum of childless couples or single-parent families with one or
Orphan ministry leader hopes Chinese believers will step up to care for most vulnerable as China stops international adoptions
China has announced that it will no longer allow children to be sent overseas for adoption, ending a practice that has been in place for over three decades. The policy change stems from the country’s former strict one-child policy, which
Webinar on Missional Families: An Urgent Need to Save Generations
The Lausanne Children and Family Network in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance’s Family Challenge and Children’s Network, invites you to a seven-week webinar series on the topic of ‘Missional Family’. The webinars will focus on answering the question of
WWO 2024: Ambassadors, a Roadmap and a Call to Strengthen the Work with Orphans
This is the last of three articles summarising the World Without Orphans 2024 Global Gathering in Thailand. Read the first part and the second part. On the last day of the Global Forum, the participants gathered together for a beautiful time of Sunday morning worship experience. Greg
Humility and Broadscale Collaboration to Help Every Child Reach Their God-Given Potential
The second plenary session of the 2024 World Without Orphans (WWO) global conference in Thailand, on 1 March, had the overall theme of “prevention” and featured 10 speakers. First on stage was Marcos Vergara, vice president of the Evangelical Churches Association
How Can the Church Respond to the Needs of Vulnerable Children in Every Nation of the World?
World Without Orphans (WWO), held its Global Forum in Chiang Mai (Thailand) from February 29 to March 3, 2024. “Together from Crisis to Hope” wass the topic of the conference and a text from Hebrews 6 the motto: “We have
Forum Panel Talks about Necessary Paradigm Shift from Orphanages to Family-based Care
On the third day of the World Without Orphans global forum that is currently taking place in Chiang Mai, Thailand, a panel discussion highlighted a central issue the orphan care movement is wrestling with today: the need to move away
Addressing the Root of the Orphan Crisis: the Three-Fold Crisis of the Soul
“We are facing three major crises today,” he said. But the crises he was referring to were not the outward contributors to orphanhood and vulnerability among children, such as war, drug abuse, climate change or pandemics – all very relevant
Global Forum on Orphan Crisis Kicks Off in Thailand, Points to Hope Not in Strength or Power but in Work of God’s Spirit
In the evening of February 29, World Without Orphans (WWO) kicked off its third global forum in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with the theme ‘together from crisis to hope.’ Bringing together more than 500 participants from over sixty countries, the event
Forum to Address Key Issues, Provide Hope Amid Global Crises Affecting Orphans and Vulnerable Children
“The state of orphans and vulnerable children was improving for decades, then suddenly one crisis hit after another,” says Karmen Friesen, principal coordinator of World Without Orphans (WWO), a global movement that seeks to mobilize the Church to respond to