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		<title>Mrs. Ban Soon-taek, wife of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, visits the LWF Jerusalem campus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. Ban Soon-taek, wife of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, visited the Lutheran World Federation’s campus in East Jerusalem on February 2, 2012.  Mrs. Ban, who has for many years devoted her attention to women’s and children’s health, was accompanied by Mr. Felipe Sanchez, Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Operations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2012/02/mrs-ban-soon-taek-visits-the-lwf-jerusalem-campus/</link>
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		<title>LWF Department for World Service – DWS Certification Shows People at Center of Humanitarian Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LWF Values of Accountability and Transparency Underlined GENEVA, 17 January 2012 (LWI) – Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Martin Junge has called the certification of the LWF by a global quality assurance body a milestone for the communion of churches. Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) International announced on 17 January that the LWF had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2012/01/lwf-dws-certification/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from LWF Jerusalem!</title>
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		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2011/12/merry-christmas-from-lwf-jerusalem/</link>
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		<title>World Diabetes Day 2011 Celebrated at Augusta Victoria Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Diabetes Day annual celebration at Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) featured special guests, music, clowns, a healthy lunch and debke dancing.  The day centered around children from the West Bank diagnosed with type 1 diabetes who are treated at the AVH Diabetes Center. The annual activities, marked this year on Friday, 18 November, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2011/11/world-diabetes-day-2011-avh/</link>
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		<title>East Jerusalem Conference on Faith Based Health Care Opens at Augusta Victoria Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday evening, 13 November 2011, the East Jerusalem Conference 2011 of the International Network of Leaders in Faith Based Health Care opened at the Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) on the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Jerusalem campus on the Mount of Olives. Rev. Mark Brown, Regional Representative for the LWF in Jerusalem, set the context [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2011/11/faith-based-health-care-conference-at-avh/</link>
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		<title>2011 Olive Harvest Underway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For thousands of years, the olive tree has been a way of life in Palestine. Every October, the trees&#8217; boughs droop with plump green and purple olives ready for harvest. On October 15, 2011, volunteers began the annual harvest of 800 olive trees on the Lutheran World Federation-Jerusalem campus. In just three weeks, volunteers from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2011/11/2011-olive-harvest/</link>
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		<title>Jerusalem – IAEA gives LWF’s Augusta Victoria Hospital green light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Kenny – LWF Communications Consultant Geneva, 28 October (LWF) — Jerusalem’s Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) has passed its first Quality Assurance Team for Radiation Oncology (QUATRO) audit by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says the hospital’s head. “The QUATRO is a comprehensive audit of radiotherapy practices and a tool for quality improvement,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2011/10/avh-receives-iaea-approval/</link>
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		<title>Announcement: Staff Changes in Jerusalem Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We welcome Anna Johnson from Iowa City, Iowa, who has come to serve as the 2011-2012 LWF Jerusalem intern.  Anna studied international affairs at George Washington University.  She is a familiar face in Jerusalem, as she served as an ELCA Young Adult in Global Mission in Jerusalem/West Bank from 2009-2010.  We look forward to having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2011/09/announcement-staff-changes-in-jerusalem-office/</link>
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		<title>ELCA Presiding Bishop Calls on President Obama to Support a Just Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Reverend Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), sent a letter dated September 19, 2011, to President Obama urging him not to stand in the way of the Palestinian bid for full member statehood at the United Nations. Bishop Hanson urges President Obama to &#8220;demonstrate &#8230; support for self-determination [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2011/09/elca-presiding-bishop-calls-on-president-obama-to-support-a-just-peace/</link>
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		<title>ACT Alliance Calls for an End to Political Stalemate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACT Alliance members working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have issued a statement on the humanitarian situation in the OPT. The statement, issued on September 23, 2011, raises humanitarian concerns and calls upon &#8220;all relevant parties to respect human dignity and protect the lives of civilians.&#8221; The full statement can be found here: http://www.actalliance.org/stories/political-stalement-over-palestine-must-end-act [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lwfjerusalem.org/2011/09/act-alliance-calls-for-an-end-to-political-stalement/</link>
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