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- The water and environment project supported by FELM has helped Tanzanians who are suffering from drought in Kishapu, Northern Tanzania. The old water pipelines have been restored and the locals are in charge of the water management in the region.
- Maria Immonen, the FELM Director for Development Cooperation was chosen to the Council of the Lutheran World Federation on July 24, for a membership term of seven years.
- Bishop Munib Younan, Th. Ph.D, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, was elected to be the President of the Lutheran World Federation with a great majority of votes in the 11th General Assembly of the LWF in Stuttgart, Germany on July 24.
- This year it is 50 years since the first FELM employees arrived in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
- "This gathering has made us feel the warmth and hospitality present in Eastern Finland", said Ms Riitta Sandberg, the FELM Co-ordinator of the Gathering, as the Mission Gathering was approaching its end.
- "The work includes an immense number of new things", says Rev. Janne Rissanen, who is about to begin working in the Middle East. He was ordained for mission work in Varkaus, Finland, on Sunday, May 30.
- Eradication of poverty, promotion of human rights and ministry are the scope of the work of FELM.
- Seminar on ‘Role of Religion in Development with focus on Ecology and Climate Change’ was held on Thursday 22 April 2010, at the Finnnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM) house in the Finnish capital, Helsinki.
- Finnish development organisations’ campaign for more effective action on cross-cutting themes in Finland’s development cooperation is drawing to a close. The campaign, which particularly targeted MPs, culminated in a meeting between NGO representatives and President Tarja Halonen.
- The first-ever summit ‘engaging religious leaders in HIV response’ concludes with a joint commitment of eradicating stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV and AIDS.
- The Vision Day and European Annual General Meeting of the SAT-7 was held on 12 March at premises of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM) in Helsinki, Finland. The SAT-7 Satellite television channel, targeted mostly to Christians living in the Middle East and North Africa, provides opportunity to witness inspirational, informative and educational television services.
- Female theologians from various parts of the world will convene at an international, ecumenical conference in the Cultural Centre Sofia in Helsinki on June 8-10. The theme of the event is "Called to be Holy", and it is the first one of its kind in Finland. It will be organised by FELM, the YWCA of Finland, and Female Theologians in Finland.
- Dr. Andrew Mollel from Tanzania, who has had a FELM scholarship, submitted his dissertation in international law in the University of Joensuu, Finland, on Jan 15.
- FELM Director Seppo Rissanen is urging Finns to aid Haiti's earthquake victims through the Common Responsibility Campaign 2010. The previously elected target of the campaign is, indeed, Haiti. "Now it is more necessary than ever", says Dr. Rev. Rissanen in his blog in Finnish on Jan 14.
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