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  • At a Methodist Church in Havana, Cuba, worshippers raise their hands while praying. Since becoming an officially secular state in the early 1990s, Cuba has seen steady growth of its Christian community.
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  • Crowds throng a graveyard on the day of the dead in the Bolivian altiplano. A traditional brass band with accompanying percussion plays tunes at gravesides, people eat and drink.
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  • 3 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Sunday service in the Eastern Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Holy Great Martyr George. On 31 May - 6 June 2018, in Novi Sad, Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church stood as one of the host churches of the Conference of European Churches General Assembly. More than 400 delegates, advisors, stewards, youth, staff, and distinguished guests took part in the Assembly and related events, gathered under the theme, “You shall be my witnesses".
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  • Indigenous children who live on the contested Hacienda El Prado, near Cayambe, Ecuador, pray during an activity led by a United Methodist missionary.
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  • Cacarica, Chocó. Consultation on the building of the Panamerican Highway through the Darien Gap. The consultation included Wounan Indigenous and negro communities. Cacarica is a community of returned displaced people.
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  • 19 April 2019, Jerusalem: On the first day of Pesach (Passover) Jews gather to pray by the Western Wall in Jerusalem, considered as the most sacred and holy place for the Jews.
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  • Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • A celebration of baptism in Cacarica. Cacarica is a community of returned displaced people or IDPs, many here have witnessed massacres, assasinations and other violence. This peace community, that aims to exclude all armed groups, was established to protect civilians from military activity and recruitment by paramilitaries, army and guerilla.
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  • 5 September 2017, Kampala, Uganda: A Muslim woman folds her hands in prayer. Taking place on 4-8 September in Kampala, Uganda, a World Council of Churches (WCC) and UNAIDS regional consultation on HIV Treatment Adherence and Faith Healing in Africa has gathered to address issues of “faith-healing only” practices in the context of HIV and AIDS. At the core is the question of how religious leaders can partner with governmental organizations nationally and internationally, as well as with other parts of civil society to develop strategies to advocate for HIV treatment adherence, and to build bridges to those among faith-healing only practitioners who are open to dialogue.
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  • A girl acolyte prays as she holds a candle during Catholic Mass in St Ignatius, Guyana.
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  • The remains of María Lida Mondol de Palacios, a victim in the massacre of the Palace of Justice in Bogota in November 1985, were finally put to rest. Maria Lida was the assistant of a magistrate. M-19 guerrillas occupied the court, everyone in the building was killed by the government, but there are many unresolved issues. Maria Lida, and others, were filmed being led alive from the building, but their bodies were later found dead in the building. Also, people who hadn't been in the building, who were tortured and killed elsewhere were found dead in the building, they were 'disappeared' and then 'appeared'. The priest who gave the church ceremony for the burial of Maria Lida arrived in a bulletproof car, he is in a protection programme because of the threats he gets for working with the families of victims of the 50 year war in Colombia. Peace agreements are being negotiated between the FARC guerrilla and it is hoped that the ELN guerrilla will also be included in the process.
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Fences mark off the area, as Carey Ballenger leads an Easter Sunday sunrise service at Jabal Allah (God's Mountain) on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, held by the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (English-speaking congregation).
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  • A displaced woman receives communion in 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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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • 9 April 2017, Botkyrka, Sweden: Palm Sunday in Tullinge Church, of the Church of Sweden.
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  • Participants in a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, worship service for survivors of the January 12 earthquake that ravaged the Caribbean nation.
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  • Vespers of Pentecost were celebrated in Heraklion by the Orthodox Patriarchs taking part in the historic Holy and Great Council
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  • 9 April 2017, Botkyrka, Sweden: Young boy Karl attends Palm Sunday service in Tullinge Church, of the Church of Sweden. Parental consent obtained orally.
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  • A woman and other worshippers sing in an evangelical church in La Hoya, a small rural town near Barahona in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. The service brings together Dominicans and Haitian-Dominicans from a nearby batey in an unusual demonstration of unity in a land where discrimination against Dominicans of Haitian ancestry is growing.
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  • A woman held a candle during prayers in the indigenous church of Cacaopera, El Salvador
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  • 9 April 2017, Botkyrka, Sweden: Palm Sunday in Tullinge Church, of the Church of Sweden.
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  • Participants in an evangelical worship service in the women's section of a prison in Sensuntepeque, El Salvador.
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  • Celebrations in San Salvador for the signing of the peace agreement in Chapultepec, Mexico, ending the war in El Salvador.
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  • 3 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: A congregant lights a candle to pray as they await Sunday service in the Eastern Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Holy Great Martyr George. On 31 May - 6 June 2018, in Novi Sad, Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church stood as one of the host churches of the Conference of European Churches General Assembly. More than 400 delegates, advisors, stewards, youth, staff, and distinguished guests took part in the Assembly and related events, gathered under the theme, “You shall be my witnesses".
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  • Eritrean asylum seekers pray before eating in their room in a church-run shelter in Freudenstadt, Germany. The Freundesdreis Asyl is run by Christlicher Kirchen, and managed by a retired United Methodist pastor. The shelter has 18 asylum seekers from Eritrea and 10 from Gambia. They came to Europe via Sudan and Libya, crossing the Mediterranean to Italy.
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  • A statue of Christ crucified stands in the Hambach forest near Bonn where the UN climate change negotiations are taking place.<br />
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Protesters are occupying the Hambach forest, living in tree-houses to prevent the expansion of the mine. This mining area near Bonn is Europe’s greatest source of CO2 emissions. While there is very broad consensus that we need to stop mining coal, coal mines such as this continue to expand, and finance for fossil fuels extraction is still available, in many countries there are subsidies for fossil fuels but not renewable energy.<br />
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WCC, the LWF and ACT Alliance take part in the UN climate change conferences to push for climate justice and care for creation.
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  • 16 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Easter celebration in Högalid Church, Church of Sweden.
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  • Indian man worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Annunciation Church in Kissamos, Crete by the Orthodox Patriarchs meeting in Crete for the Holy and Great Council. Bread, which is different from the Holy Eucharist, is given to everyone who attends.
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  • 15 March 2019, Jerusalem: Rabbi Tamara Schagas. On 15 March, a group of Ecumenical accompaniers from the World Council of Churches were invited to share Shabbat dinner with the Kol HaNeshama congregation in Jerusalem. Kol HaNeshama is a reformed Jewish congregation of 350 families in Jerusalem, and one that works actively to be a focal point for Jewish pluralism and social action in the area.
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  • A migrant domestic worker from the Philippines prays by an outdoor altar at St Joseph's Catholic Church in Hong Kong. Some 370,000 foreign domestic workers live in Hong Kong, about five percent of the population. Most are women from the Philippines and Indonesia.
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  • Senior Clergy and Patriarchs of the Orthodox Church celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of Gonia.
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  • 9 April 2017, Botkyrka, Sweden: Palm Sunday in Tullinge Church, of the Church of Sweden.
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  • Muslim men stop to pray alongside a street in Lahore, Pakistan. The country has a Muslim majority.
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  • As part of the events to mark the tenth anniversary of the coup against Mel Zelaya, Lutherans held a public prayer service at the spot where the first fatal victim of the coup was killed. Riot police and army surrounded the event as a memorial cross was carried to the center of the capital city afterwards.
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  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, an interreligious service was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to pray together, for a future of compassion and peace together. The event was attended by representatives of a range of religions present in Stockholm and Sweden as a whole. Here, Buddhist participants sharing a "Mantra of Love".
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  • A woman prays during Sunday worship in the Centenary Methodist Church in Hyderabad, India.
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  • Kalliopi Stara, Greek ecologist, lights candles in an Orthodox church on the Saronic Islands, Greece.
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  • 27 October 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Congregants sing and pray during Sunday service at the Finfinne Oromo Mekane Yesus Congregation of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. In a context where congregations did not use to be allowed to hold their services in any language but Amharic, the congregation today is one of some 60 Oromo speaking Mekane Yesus congregations in Addis Ababa. The service takes place on the first Sunday following political turmoil in the country, claiming dozens of lives. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Diana Sakaria, a novice in the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, prays in the chapel of the congregation's convent in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq. The sisters were displaced by ISIS in 2014, and carry out a variety of ministries among the displaced in northern Iraq.
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  • Dérolous Esperance is an evangelical pastor and shares responsabilities in a local church. <br />
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The Esperance family have four of their own children and have adpoted Coslina, whose parents died because of the earthquake. Uberlande was badly injured in the earthquake, losing an arm and all but one finger on the other hand. Mr Esperance, a teacher and pastor struggles to sustain the family on his income. He has taken leadership courses through World Renew.
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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. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Acasekam Saint Jerar (left), a voodoo priest, performs a ceremony in Mizak, a small village in the south of Haiti. He is assisted by Pouchon Frederique.
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  • Young people celebrated with singing and dance as they waited for Pope Francis in Manila.<br />
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Shortly after Typhoon Haiyan in 2015, Pope Francis visited the Philippines. Millions of people waited hours to see him pass by. Pope Francis prepared an encyclical on the environment and the climate crisis, and during his visit he showed solidarity with victims of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, and related the increase in extreme weather events to climate change.
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  • 9 April 2017, Botkyrka, Sweden: Palm Sunday in Tullinge Church, of the Church of Sweden.
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  • A K'iche' Maya woman priestess leads an indigenous spiritual ceremony near San Andres Xecul, Guatemala.
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  • Shortly after Typhoon Haiyan in 2015, Pope Francis visited the Philippines. Millions of people waited hours to see him pass by. Pope Francis prepared an encyclical on the environment and the climate crisis, and during his visit he showed solidarity with victims of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, and related the increase in extreme weather events to climate change.
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  • 14 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Good Friday service in Högalid Church, Church of Sweden.
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  • A boy lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
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  • Children do the Surya Namaskar, the Sun Salutation, during an assembly at the Vasudha Vidya Vihar school. The school was built with Fairtrade premium funds in 2009. Over 600 students attend the school, which offers education up to 11th standard, primarily for Fairtrade cotton farmers. <br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
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  • 13 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Maundy Thursday evening service, in Högalid Church, Church of Sweden.
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  • A man prays during a Christian worship service in the remote Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • Rev. Rolando Ortez Martinez, President of the Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras (pictured with clerical collar) spoke in a public demonstration to mark the tenth anniversary of the coup.
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  • 23 July 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp shares a moment of Jewish prayer. On 23 July, an international Interfaith Memorial and Prayer Service takes place in the Keizersgrachtkerk in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Gathering local congregants together with international guests, the service takes place in connection with the 2018 International AIDS Conference, held in Amsterdam on 23-27 July.
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  • Farmah Adam Ibrahim (right) and Sit-Eldoma Atiya (back left) pray outside their hut in the Bilel Camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's war-torn Darfur province. Most of Darfur's residents are Muslims. A government sanctioned ethnic war has killed more than 400,000 people and left some 2.5 million displaced since 2003.
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  • Villagers gathered for prayer at dawn at the mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Seduya.<br />
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The small village of Seduya, Koinadugu is in a remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
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  • 15 March 2019, Jerusalem: Rabbi Tamara Schagas blesses the two loaves of bread traditionally served at a Shabbat dinner.  On 15 March, a group of Ecumenical accompaniers from the World Council of Churches were invited to share Shabbat dinner with the Kol HaNeshama congregation in Jerusalem. Kol HaNeshama is a reformed Jewish congregation of 350 families in Jerusalem, and one that works actively to be a focal point for Jewish pluralism and social action in the area.
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  • A displaced young woman prays in the makeshift Catholic chapel in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
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  • Young people celebrated with singing and dance as they waited for Pope Francis in Manila.<br />
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Shortly after Typhoon Haiyan in 2015, Pope Francis visited the Philippines. Millions of people waited hours to see him pass by. Pope Francis prepared an encyclical on the environment and the climate crisis, and during his visit he showed solidarity with victims of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, and related the increase in extreme weather events to climate change.
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  • 19 April 2019, Jerusalem: A Jewish man cries by the Western Wall. On the first day of Pesach (Passover) Jews gather to pray by the Western Wall in Jerusalem, considered as the most sacred and holy place for the Jews.
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  • A displaced Catholic woman prays during an open air mass in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. Yet in Agok they have no church building, so Mass and religious instruction is carried out in the open air.
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  • Women are blessed as they pray at the communion railing during Sunday worship in the Centenary Methodist Church in Hyderabad, India.
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  • 23 October 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Performance by the Yetsedik Tsehay choir of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. Gathered in Addis Ababa from 23-27 October 2019, Lutherans from across the globe join in consultation under the theme of ’We believe in the Holy Spirit: Global Perspectives on Lutheran Identities’. Hosted by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, the consultation is the first phase of a study process on Lutheran identities. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 24 October 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Performance by the Gudina Tumsin children's choir. The Gudina Tumsin school currently teaches some 400 children with special needs. Gathered in Addis Ababa from 23-27 October 2019, Lutherans from across the globe join in consultation under the theme of ’We believe in the Holy Spirit: Global Perspectives on Lutheran Identities’. Hosted by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, the consultation is the first phase of a study process on Lutheran identities. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Ela Manik and Vincensia Simbolon, both 4, delight in their candles during an October 31, 2014, Mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
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  • 19 April 2019, Jerusalem: Two men wash their hands, as on the first day of Pesach (Passover) Jews gather to pray by the Western Wall in Jerusalem, considered as the most sacred and holy place for the Jews.
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  • A crucifix leads the procession at the beginning 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 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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  • 8 October 2018, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: It’s 5.18 in the morning, and in the open space by the checkpoint, a group of men step aside for a moment for Fajr prayer (‘dawn prayer’) before going through the turnstiles. Qalandiya is the main checkpoint between the northern West Bank and Jerusalem, where thousands upon thousands of Palestinians try to make their way to Jerusalem each day. Ecumenical accompaniers (EAs) from the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI) visit regularly in the early mornings. Their task is to be an international presence and to show solidarity, offer basic support to anyone denied passage, and collect documentation of the situation at the checkpoint. EAs’ reports feed into the UN system, providing ongoing monitoring of the human rights situation in Israel and Palestine.
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  • A woman prays with her hands on an icon following Mass in St. Raphael Chaldean Cathedral in Beirut, Lebanon.
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  • A woman prays at St. Mary's Cathedral in Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 15. Pope Francis will visit the southeast Asian country Nov. 27-30.  Photo by Paul Jeffrey/kairosphotos.com
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  • 10 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: An indigenous woman blows incense, as a group of indigenous leaders set out to deliver a climate letter to the COP25 presidency, demanding that indigenous voices be heard in climate process at COP25 in Madrid. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Sunday morning worship at the United Methodist Church in Pisak, a small village in Central Equatoria State in Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Deacon Della Wells carries the cross as the procession enters, during Easter Sunday service at the Cathedral Church of Saint George the Martyr, Jerusalem.
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  • Gary Moon (left), a United Methodist missionary in Thailand, prays with Kittapot Arjor before her baptism in a river near Buyer, a small village in northern Thailand populated by indigenous hill tribe people. Arjor is joining the Pranetta United Methodist Church in the community.
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  • 23 July 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha, a founder of the International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV or AIDS (INERELA+), kneels in a concluding word of prayer. Gathered in a "common voice" religious leaders from a multitude of religions “urgently demand that the world recommit to ending AIDS and that world leaders take strong action to ensure this epidemic is finally brought to an end." On 23 July, an international Interfaith Memorial and Prayer Service takes place in the Keizersgrachtkerk in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Gathering local congregants together with international guests, the service takes place in connection with the 2018 International AIDS Conference, held in Amsterdam on 23-27 July.
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