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  • Nobel laureate Dr. Rigoberta Menchú at a meeting in San Salvador, El Salvador.
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  • Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto is an Argentine human rights activist and president of the association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One of her daughters, Laura Estela Carlotto, was kidnapped disappeared while pregnant in Buenos Aires in late 1977.
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  • 9 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Press conference with Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future, at COP25 in Madrid.
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  • 21 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: On 21 June 2018, the World Council of Churches receives a visit from Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church. Held under the theme of “Ecumenical Pilgrimage - Walking, Praying and Working Together”, the landmark visit is a centrepiece of the ecumenical commemoration of the WCC's 70th anniversary. The visit is only the third by a pope, and the first time that such an occasion was dedicated to visiting the WCC. Here, an ecumenical prayer service with religious leaders from all over the world. Here, Pope Francis shares a moment with Matilde Colombo, who gives a drawing to the Pope. With Matilde is Francesca Merico, WCC staff member coordinating the WCC Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance HIV Campain. Matildes was recently dianosed with Leukemia ALL.
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  • "Young people are being left out and left behind in the AIDS response and it needs to stop here and now." said Sir Elton John, as he and Prince Harry joined forces at the International AIDS Conference 2016 in Durban, South Africa, on Thursday 21 July. Sir Elton then wrote on the "Pro Test" wall the phrase "Love is vital, July 2016".
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: “My dream, it is to see this country in peace,” says Joverman Sánchez Arroyave, formerly known by the name of war Rubén Cano, as commander in the FARC guerrilla (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). “I dream that what was agreed in Havana, witnessed by the international community, is fulfilled. That is the whole essence, to achieve the political transformation that is needed in our country, including peace.” Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate.
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  • The Rt Rev. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury: ìWhat we face at the moment is a number of interlocking global crisis elements. We are not faced with a choice between good causes. Environment, peace making and development are all together. We need to understand this interconnectedness. We need a basic shift in our attitude to growth in prosperity. The myth of prosperity is dangerous and will be murderous to humanity and creation. If we can tackle this basic attitude, we can face the questions at stake in Paris.î
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  • Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia. An Aymara, Morales took office in January 2006. Here he salutes a group of students having lunch at the National Palace. He is wearing a necklace of coca leaves and drinking Coca-Cola.
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  • President Juan Orlando Hernandez during his investiture event in the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa on January 27th this year. <br />
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The event took place inside several rings of military exclusion that extended for a kilometre from the stadium. A limited number of people were brought in, arriving on buses, and reportedly many were paid to attend, certainly many didn’t want their photograph taken. Animators in front of the stands instructed people when to cheer and wave the flags they were given. Later, videos circulated on social media of heaps of discarded National Party flags and of fights that broke out over the distribution of sandwiches that were promised to the people who attended.
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  • Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a visit to the Caracas neighborhood of Catuche in January 2000 following Dec 1999 flooding. Note lipstick on Chavez' face from kisses from women supporters. Chavez died in 2013.
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  • President Uribe speaks to the press on the morning of the presidential elections in 2007
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  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, addresses the United Methodist General Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, on April 29, 2008. President Johnson-Sirleaf is a member of the United Methodist Church.
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  • 7 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Tupá Mirim Joyan, a Guaraní man from Sao Paulo sings a traditional chant, bringing testimony of his indigenous roots and culture, as people of faith gather in a 'Prayer for the Rainforest' as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, where faith-based organizations continue to urge decision-makers to take action for climate justice.
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  • Comandante Victoria of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC, at the peace negotiations being held in Havana, Cuba
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  • Singer Annie Lennox, the International Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), sings at the conclusion of a July 20, 2010, human rights march through the streets of Vienna, Austria, during the XVIII International AIDS Conference.  The theme of the conference was "Rights here, right now."
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  • 21 July 2016, Durban, South Africa: "We cannot beat HIV without giving young people a voice. Without education and empowerment, HIV will win," said Prince Harry at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, as he and Sir Elton John joined forces by the "Pro Test" wall.
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  • Environmentalist and former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore met with WCC General Secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at UN climate talks COP21 thanking him for commitment & action on climate.
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  • Koko Kondo, a survivor of the 1945 atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, talks on August 7, 2015, to a delegation of church leaders from around the world who have come to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb, to listen to the survivors and to local church leaders, and to return home recommitted to advocating for an end to nuclear weapons. The delegation of pilgrims was organized by the World Council of Churches. Kondo is a well-known hibakusha, or atom bomb survivor, who along with her father is mentioned in John Hershey's landmark book about the horror of Hiroshima.
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  • Bishop Desmond Tutu during a peace parade in Porto Alegre
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  • Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, greets parishioners at the end of a Mass in a displaced persons camp in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq, on April 11, 2016. The Mass concluded a three day visit by Dolan, chair of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, to Iraqi Kurdistan with other church leaders to visit with Christians and others displaced by ISIS. <br />
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CNEWA is a papal agency providing humanitarian and pastoral support to the church and people in the region.
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  • 9 December 2017, Oslo, Norway: Some 22 "Hibakusha", survivors from the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, joined Norwegian representatives the mayor of Oslo, principal of Oslo University, and the head of the Oslo Museum of National History for an event themed "Seeds for Peace" in the Oslo Botanical Garden. As a token of hope, together they planted seeds, as part of the Nobel Peace Prize celebrations in Oslo on 9-10 December. Oslo hosts the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on 9-10 December 2017. The prize in 2017 goes to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for "its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". Masakazu Saito is a 94 year-old survivor of an atomic bombing. "I was told by the doctors 27 seven times that I will not survive," he says, bearing a crack in his skull from the time the bomb fell. Since then, he has started an organization called "Iwato Prefectural A-bomb Sufferers Association". "In a world where with today's technology, two bombs can kill the entire population of the Earth, killing women and men, adults and children: we cannot have this. Peace. No war." he says.
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  • Primates from the Orthodox Church gathered in a Small Synaxis at the Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery and Orthdox Academy of Crete on 17 June to consider a “draft message” of the Holy and Great Council. From left to right: His Beatitude Archbishop Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland (Herakleion); His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus; His Beatitude Patriarch Irinej of Serbia; His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria; His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew; His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem; His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania; His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece; His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres, and All Albania; His Beatitude Archbishop Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia.
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  • Salvador Alcantara is an evangelical pastor and community leader in Garzal, Colombia. People in the community have struggled for years to stay on their land, despite threats and violence from drug traffickers and paramilitaries, and recently many of them finally gained legal title to their plots.
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  • 9 December 2017, Oslo, Norway: Some 22 "Hibakusha", survivors from the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, joined Norwegian representatives the mayor of Oslo, principal of Oslo University, and the head of the Oslo Museum of National History for an event themed "Seeds for Peace" in the Oslo Botanical Garden. As a token of hope, together they planted seeds, as part of the Nobel Peace Prize celebrations in Oslo on 9-10 December. Oslo hosts the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on 9-10 December 2017. The prize in 2017 goes to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for "its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". Yoshiko Tanaka survived the bombing of Hiroshima, as the only one among her friends at school. Scars running deep, it’s only for a few years that she has spoken publicly about her experience. "When I was a first-grader in elementary school, I was 2.3 kilometers from the hypocenter of the Hiroshima blast, in an area called Ushita, where I was burned and exposed to radiation. Amidst the destruction, as people wandered and cried out in pain, when the unchanged blue sky showed itself, in my child's mind, for some reason, a hope sprung forth that 'there will be a tomorrow.' We citizens of Hiroshima recovered and have overcome many challenges since then," wrote Tanaka in an open letter in The Mainichi in May 2016.
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  • As the Holy and Great Council ended, His-All Holiness Bartholomew the Ecumenical Patriarch (right) greeted Bishop Bedford-Strohm Germany's top Protestant Bishop. The Holy and Great Council put special significance on its relations with other churches.
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  • Leymah Gbowee addresses the United Methodist Women Assembly 2018 in Columbus, Ohio, on May 18, 2018. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her work in leading a women’s peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. She remains an activist for peace and women's rights.
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  • Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition in the United Kingdom, took part in side events during the UN climate talks COP21
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  • Gloria Amparo Suarez is coordinator of the Grassroots Women's Organization (Organizacion Feminina Popular) in Barrancabermeja, Colombia.
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  • 17 November 2018, Dabeiba, Antioquia, Colombia: "Harrison", the name by which he is known as a former commander in the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) is one of many ex-combatants currently trying to reconstruct their lives peacefully in Colombian civil society, following the 2016 peace treaty between the FARC Guerilla and the Colombian government. Challenges remain, however, as armed groups remain active in northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, and ex-combatants face both stigma, threats of assassination, and suffer from a lack of fulfilment by the government on transfering ownership of lands to former guerilla combatants, which leads both to vulnerability and instability for life in the countryside. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies communities of ex-combatants, as well as the communities into which they are reintegrating, to help alleviate the risk of re-victimization or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • Nicolás Maduro, then Venezuela's Foreign Minister, during the Foro de Sao Paolo in Nicaragua. Maduro is currently President of Venezuela.
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  • Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, speaks to delegates in the closing ceremony of the XV International AIDS Conference in 2004 in Bangkok.
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  • 17 April 2019, Tulkarem, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Furniture maker Ali Dana runs a small shop in the Tulkarem refugee camp. The camp is integrated into the city, yet the refugees remain in a specific geographical area, as they otherwise risk losing their status as refugees, originally from Jaffa or other parts of present-day Israel, as they were forced to flee in 1948.
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  • 21 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: On 21 June 2018, the World Council of Churches receives a visit from Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church. Held under the theme of “Ecumenical Pilgrimage - Walking, Praying and Working Together”, the landmark visit is a centrepiece of the ecumenical commemoration of the WCC's 70th anniversary. The visit is only the third by a pope, and the first time that such an occasion was dedicated to visiting the WCC. Here, an ecumenical prayer service with religious leaders from all over the world. Here, Pope Francis.
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  • Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, during the Foro de Sao Paolo held in Managua. Nicolas Maduro is on the right of the picture.
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  • Father Jesus Alberto Franco, executive secretary Colombia's Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission, is a prominent human rights advocate in the war-torn South American country.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: "I have worked the fields with my machete all my life" says Jorge, one of the community members in San José de León. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society. Supporting a total of more than 300 families, the project seeks to alleviate the risk of re-victimization, or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • Juan Manuel Santos, Presidential candidate, and ex-minister for defence for Uribe (and now President), arriving at a voting station in Bogota during Colombian Presidential elections on 20 June 2010.
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  • Nora Morales de Cortiñas is a founder of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which formed 38 years ago to demand information on what happened to their disappeared children during Argentina's Dirty War. Within hours of President Mauricio Macri being sworn in as Argentina's new president on December 10, 2015, she and other Mothers took to the Plaza in Buenos Aires to reiterate their demands.
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  • 21 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: On 21 June 2018, the World Council of Churches receives a visit from Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church. Held under the theme of “Ecumenical Pilgrimage - Walking, Praying and Working Together”, the landmark visit is a centrepiece of the ecumenical commemoration of the WCC's 70th anniversary. The visit is only the third by a pope, and the first time that such an occasion was dedicated to visiting the WCC. Here, an ecumenical prayer service with religious leaders from all over the world. Here, Pope Francis is greeted by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit as the Pope arrives at the Ecumenical Centre.
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  • Mel Zelaya, ousted President of Honduras, during the Foro de Sao Paolo, held in Managua, Nicaragua in 2011
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  • Catholic Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, I.M.C., is head of the archdiocese of Tunja, Colombia, and president of the Colombian bishops conference. Castro has taken an active role in the Colombian peace process.
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Patriarch Emeritus Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
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  • Comandante Benkos Biohó, former commander of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC, at the peace negotiations being held in Havana, Cuba
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  • Noa Mazor is a Reform Jewish rabbi and rights activist in Jerusalem.
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  • 12 March 2018, Arusha, Tanzania: HH Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch (left) and dr Agnes Abuom (right) converse after morning prayers. From 8-13 March 2018, the World Council of Churches organizes the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Arusha, Tanzania. The conference is themed "Moving in the Spirit: Called to Transforming Discipleship", and is part of a long tradition of similar conferences, organized every decade.
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  • Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC speaks to a room of religious leaders and press. An interreligious celebration was held in the Basilica of Saint Denis and a petition of nearly two million signatures calling for climate justice was handed over to the French President's special envoy for the protection of the planet Nicolás Hulot and the Executive Director of the UNFCCC Cristiana Figueres.
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  • Gabriela Liguori, the director of the Ecumenical Commission Supporting Refugees and Migrants, reviews files in the group's Buenos Aires headquarters. In coordination with a museum, they have begun to organize and scan the documents, which relate the experiences of refugees, some of whom were victims of a region-wide terrorist campaign known as Operation Condor, which was supported by the United States.
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  • 21 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: Pope Francis listens, as WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit speaks at an Ecumenical Encounter between Pope Francis and the World Council of Churches. On 21 June 2018, the World Council of Churches receives a visit from Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church. Held under the theme of “Ecumenical Pilgrimage - Walking, Praying and Working Together”, the landmark visit is a centrepiece of the ecumenical commemoration of the WCC's 70th anniversary. The visit is only the third by a pope, and the first time that such an occasion was dedicated to visiting the WCC.
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  • Yeb Saño, pictured here, former lead climate change negotiator for the Phlippines, led a pilgrimage from Rome to Katowice. Here he takes part in a march through Katowice, Polad during the UN climate negotiations of COP24, with marchers from all over the world, protesting the dangerously slow process of the negotiations.
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  • Sonia Gandhi, chairperson of the National AIDS Advisory Council of India and president of the National Congress Party, speaks to delegates in the closing ceremony of the XV International AIDS Conference in 2004.
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  • 10 December 2017, Oslo, Norway: Oslo City Hall hosts the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on 9-10 December 2017. The prize in 2017 goes to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for "its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". Here, ICAN representative and Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow.
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  • Vandana Shiva at the Green Attica Symposium in Hydra, Greece
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  • The Rev. Dr Chang Sang,  a member of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea and World Council of Churches Asia president, speaks on August 6, 2015, to a symposium on nuclear disarmament in Hiroshima, Japan. Chang and other members of a delegation from the World Council of Churches came to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb that devastated the city 70 years ago.
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  • 21 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: On 21 June 2018, the World Council of Churches receives a visit from Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church. Held under the theme of “Ecumenical Pilgrimage - Walking, Praying and Working Together”, the landmark visit is a centrepiece of the ecumenical commemoration of the WCC's 70th anniversary. The visit is only the third by a pope, and the first time that such an occasion was dedicated to visiting the WCC. Here, an ecumenical prayer service with religious leaders from all over the world. Here, Pope Francis shares a moment with Matilde Colombo. With Matilde is Francesca Merico, WCC staff member coordinating the WCC Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance HIV Campain. Matildes was recently dianosed with Leukemia ALL.
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  • Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan speaks during a Mass in a displaced persons camp in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq, on April 11, 2016. The Mass concluded a three day visit by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and chair of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, to Iraqi Kurdistan with other church leaders to visit with Christians and others displaced by ISIS.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: Woman leader Aida, who was part of the first group of ex-combatant families to settle in San José de León, tends to the community's poultry, caring for the chickens and hens, and collecting the eggs they provide. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society. Supporting a total of more than 300 families, the project seeks to alleviate the risk of re-victimization, or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • Archbishop Youhanna Boutros Moshe of the Syriac Archeparchy of Mosul, participates in opening a youth congress in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq, on April 7, 2016.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: 48-year-old Ivan walks on crutches as he is missing a leg. He lived 31 years as a FARC guerilla combatant, before settling in San José de León after the 2016 peace treaty in Colombia. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society. Supporting a total of more than 300 families, the project seeks to alleviate the risk of re-victimization, or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda (left) walks with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, in Ankawa, Iraq, on April 9, 2016. Dolan, chair of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, was in Iraqi Kurdistan with other church leaders to visit with Christians and others displaced by ISIS. Warda heads the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil, and has been a staunch champion for displaced Christians and others living in his archdiocese.
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  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: Amadou Adamou, a thirty-year-old refugee from Bocaranga in CAR runs a shop in the Borgop camp, where he sells rice, flour, biscuits, soap and sugar. With support from the Lutheran World Federation, he has managed to move away from taking credit from other merchants, into becoming an independent storeowner.<br />
The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic.
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  • 7 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Tupá Mirim Joyan, a Guaraní man from Sao Paulo brings testimony of his indigenous roots and culture, as people of faith gather in a 'Prayer for the Rainforest' as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, where faith-based organizations continue to urge decision-makers to take action for climate justice.
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  • Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to participants at the United Methodist Women's Assembly during an April 26, 2014 worship service at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Clinton is a lifelong member of United Methodist Women.
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  • 30 October 2018, Uppsala, Sweden: Dr. h.c. Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel.
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  • Sister Maritze Trigos, a member of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, is a prominent human rights advocate in war-torn Colombia.
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  • 15 June 2019, Geneva, Switzerland: Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén, Lutheran World Federation council member and vice-president for the Nordic countries. The 2019 LWF Council meeting takes place in Geneva on 13-18 June. The theme of the Council is ”Because we know God's voice” (John 10:4). The LWF Council meets yearly and is the highest authority of the LWF between assemblies. It consists of the President, the Chairperson of the Finance Committee, and 48 members from LWF member churches in seven regions.
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  • Nora Arsenian-Carmi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, a few months before the establishment of Israel. Since 1967, she has been a permanent resident of East Jerusalem. Conflict is something she is very familiar with considering her Armenian heritage. Her family survived the genocide of 1915. Carmi served as a community builder in various religious and security civil society circles. She worked with the YWCA, Sabeel Liberation Theology Center and Kairos Palestine for some four decades.
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  • Michel Sabbah was the Archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008, the first non-Italian to hold this position in more than five centuries. The Palestinian is now Patriarch Emeritus and lives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Carlos Morales is a human rights activist and leader of CAHUCOPANA (Corporación de Acción Humanitaria por la Convivencia y la Paz del Nordeste Antioqueño) in Barrancabermeja, Colombia. He was jailed on trumped up charges in late 2015 and released after international protests in 2016.
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  • Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National Authority, remained popular among Palestinians despite allegations of inefficiency and corruption in his administration. A Nobel laureate, he died in 2004.
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  • Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) speaks backstage with Yvette Richards and Harriett Olson before addressing participants at the United Methodist Women's Assembly during an April 26, 2014 worship service at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Richards is president of United Methodist Women, and Olson is top executive of the organization. Clinton is a lifelong member of United Methodist Women.
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  • Sam Bahour is a Palestinian businessman, writer, and activist in Ramallah.
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  • Raanan Mallek is Community Rabbi of the Shorashim Village in the Galilee, Israel, and an activist in interfaith dialogue.
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  • Jean Zaru is a Palestinian Christian peace and non-violence activist, and a leader of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the West Bank.
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  • Yehuda Stolov is executive director of the Interfaith Encounter Association in Jerusalem.
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  • Hillary Rodham Clinton greets members of Summer of Sisterhood, a musical group from the Westside Community House in Cleveland, Ohio, just before the former first lady spoke to participants in the United Methodist Women's Assembly during an April 26, 2014 worship service at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Clinton is a lifelong member of United Methodist Women.
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