Lutheran World Relief

03/31/2008 Relief agencies are mobilizing in Sri Lanka's Batticaloa region, where recent torrential rains forced more than 7,000 Sri Lankans -- many of whom were already displaced by fighting between the government and a rebel group -- to flee their homes.

04/10/2007 Lutheran World Relief will provide assistance to more than 13,000 families affected by the escalation of a two-decade-old armed conflict in Sri Lanka.

02/01/2007 "This visit has been eye-opening," said U.S. Congressman Donald Payne upon his return from Colombia Monday. "I was moved by the stories I heard about the very real effects of the conflict on Colombia's people."