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  • 1 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Roman Catholic priest holds ashes, at Ash Wednesday in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho.
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  • Brother Christopher Soosai, a De La Salle brother from India, gets ash painted on his face by students in the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, where they regularly share dances from their own tribal traditions with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. Putting ash on their faces is a common practice when dancing.<br />
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The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. Brother Chris is the school's principal.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Lyda Pierce applies ashes to the forehead of a man during an Ash Wednesday service that accompanied the arrival of the Fast for Families bus in Yakima, Washington, on  March 6, 2014, one stop of many on a nationwide tour to raise awareness of immigration policies.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Lyda Pierce applies ashes to the forehead of a woman during an Ash Wednesday service that accompanied the arrival of the Fast for Families bus in Yakima, Washington, on  March 6, 2014, one stop of many on a nationwide tour to raise awareness of immigration policies.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-immigration-bus-108.JPG
  • A girl throws ash on an animal on April 12, 2017, in a cattle camp in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. Most of the families in the village recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village while simultaneously coping with a drought which has devastated the cattle herds that provide a foundation for their economy and culture.<br />
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The ash helps control flies in the cattle herd.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E1766.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D103.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D057.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D053.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D108.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D107.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D105.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D106.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D104.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D102.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D101.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D061.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D058.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D056.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D042.JPG
  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D041.JPG
  • In preparation for a wedding, Dinka villagers dance on April 14, 2017, in Poktap, a town in South Sudan's Jonglei State where conflict, drought and inflation have caused severe food insecurity.<br />
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The white on the man's face is a mixture of ash and cow dung that Dinka cattle keepers traditionally apply to ward off flies.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in the area tackle food problems, as well as providing support for housing and education.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-G622.JPG
  • Her face marked with ash, a girl holds a horn--made from a cow's horn--as she prepares to dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-80.jpg
  • Students apply ash to their bodies as they prepare to participate in a traditional dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The girls' school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-65.jpg
  • Students apply ash to their bodies as they prepare to participate in a traditional dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The girls' school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-63.jpg
  • Students perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D054.JPG
  • A food worker poses at an over in the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, and trains nurses and midwives in Africa's newest country. Students live and eat on the campus.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-B406.jpg
  • Students perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D055.JPG
  • Students perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D044.JPG
  • Students perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D043.JPG
  • Girls prepare for a traditional dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-64.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, has ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
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The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D026.jpg
  • Gatliah Chan Koam, a student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, has ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D033.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D014.jpg
  • Gatliah Chan Koam, a student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, has ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D031.JPG
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D017.JPG
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D011.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D007.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D002.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D006.JPG
  • A man wears ashes on his head, part of a wake in the Buddhist village of Gatlang, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.
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  • 26 February 2020, Abu Dis, Palestine: The separation wall, blackened by ashes, as people have been burning trash in front of it. The separation wall runs through Abu Dis, closing it off from nearby Al-Shikhsa'ad.
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  • A man scavenges sheets of charred tin roofing from the ashes of what was once the central market in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to enter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city.
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  • Children look for valuable items in the ashes of what was once the central market in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to enter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor3130002.JPG
  • A boy in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda.<br />
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The boy has ashes on his head to treat a skin condition.
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  • A man wears ashes on his head, part of a wake in the Buddhist village of Gatlang, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_313155.jpg
  • 8 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: On 8 April, the Skarpnäck Parish of the Church of Sweden organized a pilgrimage on the theme of Easter, with some 25 participants, walking through the Nacka Nature Reserve.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170408_AHP_455...jpg
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331101.JPG
  • A member of an ACT Alliance team searches for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331064.JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331078.JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331061.JPG
  • A woman and her son in their shelter in a displaced persons camp at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wau, South Sudan. The church has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of clergy and religious has fostered a sense of relative safety for the families who first occupied the church grounds when fighting enveloped the city in 2016.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-F606.jpg
  • The burned remains of a house in Mijak, a village in the contested Abyei region from which residents fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan. 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-167.jpg
  • Jean Manuel Dupres (left), 13, cooks his family's daily meal while his brother Nigenson, 15, holds their younger brother Jefte in their home in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • Haitians examine the inside of a car after it was burned in a political protest outside a Catholic mass in Port-au-Prince that marked the one-year anniversary of the January 12, 2010, earthquake that devastated Haiti. The car, which belonged to Father Allan Francois, was set afire by protestors upset about the government's management of the quake recovery. Held in the shadows of the ruins of the city's Catholic cathedral, the Mass was one of many special observances held throughout the Caribbean nation...
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  • 8 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: On 8 April, the Skarpnäck Parish of the Church of Sweden organized a pilgrimage on the theme of Easter, with some 25 participants, walking through the Nacka Nature Reserve.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170408_AHP_688...jpg
  • 8 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: On 8 April, the Skarpnäck Parish of the Church of Sweden organized a pilgrimage on the theme of Easter, with some 25 participants, walking through the Nacka Nature Reserve.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170408_AHP_451...jpg
  • A baby goat seeks the warmth of last night's fire in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-B020.jpg
  • A burned old building is part of the urban landscape in East St. Louis, Illinois.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331047.JPG
  • Sister Therese Cunningham teaches English to Azed, an asylum seeker from Eritrea, at the Posada Providencia in San Benito, Texas. Cunningham, originally from Ireland, is a member of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit. She has ashes on her forehead because it is Ash Wednesday.<br />
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Sponsored by the Catholic Sisters of Divine Providence, the Posada Providencia provides a safe place for people in crisis from all over the world who are seeking legal refuge in the United States.
    usa-texas-2017-jeffrey-sanbenito008.JPG
  • Their faces painted with ash, students perform a traditional dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The girls' school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-70.jpg