Tag: Conflict

June 2026 offered a sobering reminder that humanitarian emergencies rarely occur in isolation. Around the world, armed conflict, climate-related disasters, economic instability, hunger and disease are converging to create unprecedented levels of human suffering. At the same time, humanitarian organizations are being forced to do more with less as global funding continues to decline. Today, an estimated 266 million people face acute food insecurity, while 13 major hunger hotspots are at risk of further deterioration in the months ahead. Yet humanitarian funding has fallen by roughly 59% compared with 2022 levels, forcing agencies to scale back critical programs including food…

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (ELCA) For many U.S. residents reading this blog post, our ability to think soundly about the Israel-Hamas conflict has been consistently interrupted by waves of conflicting images and emotions: stories of trauma and grief from Israelis impacted by the Hamas attacks on their homes, followed almost immediately by accounts from Gaza of deaths; both moments of horror followed quickly by a outrage and ambivalence gestated over decades by a binary debate over U.S. involvement in the conflict. We can certainly feel tired to act when we pile onto these emotions the ways social media and…

Situation: On April 15, violence broke out between opposing military groups in Sudan. Most of the fighting has been in the capital city of Khartoum, but some has now spread outside the city. Because of the conflict, many civilians cannot leave their homes, while others are managing to flee to other areas of the country, or into neighboring countries like Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan. Nearly 1 million people have been displaced since the beginning of the violence.     Sudanese refugees in South Sudan. Photo: ACT Alliance Response: In Chad, Lutheran Disaster Response is supporting the Lutheran World…