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  • Catholics in Southern Sudan participate in a procession through the streets of Juba on November 20 to pray for a peaceful January 2011 referendum on secession from the north of the country. The independence vote has widespread support throughout Southern Sudan, including among Christians. The banner refers to a church-sponsored ecumenical campaign of 101 days of prayer for a peaceful referendum. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • A young man hangs an anti-trafficking banner at the El Amatillo border crossing between Honduras and El Salvador. Church activists combating trafficking focus their attention on border crossings.
    honduras-2014-jeffrey-immigration-03.jpg
  • A young man hangs an anti-trafficking banner at the El Amatillo border crossing between Honduras and El Salvador. Church activists combating trafficking focus their attention on border crossings.
    honduras-2014-jeffrey-immigration-04.jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a large banner on which she and her friends have drawn various animals and the text 'It's their planet too', as they join tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - in marching through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_095...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a large banner on which she and her friends have drawn various animals and the text 'It's their planet too', as they join tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - in marching through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_095...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Lutheran World Federation staff Chad Rimmer holds a banner reading 'God saw everything that God had made, and indeed, it was very good', as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - gather to march through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_076...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Lutheran World Federation staff Chad Rimmer holds a banner reading 'God saw everything that God had made, and indeed, it was very good', as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - gather to march through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_074...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a banner reading 'There is no planet B', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH2_501...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Linnea Aronson from ACT Church of Sweden holds a banner reading 'Creation - Not for Sale', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH1_047...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a banner reading 'Rethink Or sink', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH1_017...jpg
  • As part of a celebration of International Women's Day in Chennai, India, the Madras Christian Council of Social Service invited women to mark their stamp on a banner protesting the high cost of basic food commodities. The stamps were made from vegetables.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-196.jpg
  • As part of a celebration of International Women's Day in Chennai, India, the Madras Christian Council of Social Service invited women to mark their stamp on a banner protesting the high cost of basic food commodities. The stamps were made from vegetables.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-195.jpg
  • Holding a banner proclaiming their right to a "healthy, happy and hot" sexual life, youth participate in 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, Rights now."
    austria-2010-jeffrey-aids-conference...jpg
  • 25 November 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: "Stop deporting people to a country that isn't safe", was the message as hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered at Medborgarplatsen in central Stockholm, to highlight Sweden's Refugee Day, and the way Swedish authorities keep persisting in deporting young people to Afghanistan. The event marked two years since November 2015, when Swedish government officials took a turn towards stricter policies for granting refugee status to asylum seekers, and so a range of civil society organizations, including faith-based organizations, now take a stand for more humane refugee policies. Here, a banner from Studenter mot Rasism ('Students against Racism").
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20171125_AHP_961...jpg
  • 25 November 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: "Stop deporting people to a country that isn't safe", was the message as hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered at Medborgarplatsen in central Stockholm, to highlight Sweden's Refugee Day, and the way Swedish authorities keep persisting in deporting young people to Afghanistan. The event marked two years since November 2015, when Swedish government officials took a turn towards stricter policies for granting refugee status to asylum seekers, and so a range of civil society organizations, including faith-based organizations, now take a stand for more humane refugee policies. Here, a banner from Studenter mot Rasism ('Students against Racism").
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20171125_AHP_943...jpg
  • 30 October 2019, Monrovia, Liberia: Liberia Council of Churches staff Winston raises a banner at Saint Peter Lutheran Church in Monrovia, known as the site of the 1990 Monrovia Church Massacre, in which some 600 people were killed, during the First Liberian Civil War. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191030_AH1_542...jpg
  • 9 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: 'All talk, no action' reads a banner under a pair of windows at night on a street in Glasgow, as the city hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211109_AH1_241...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Two young girls hold a large banner on which they have drawn various animals and the text 'It's their planet too', as they join tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - in marching through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH2_546...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: People from ACT Alliance carry a banner reading 'Climate Justice can't wait, ACT NOW',  as they join tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - in marching through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_099...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Two young girls hold a large banner on which they have drawn various animals and the text 'It's their planet too', as they join tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - in marching through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_094...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a large banner on which she and her friends have drawn various animals and the text 'It's their planet too', as they join tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - in marching through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_094...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a large banner on which she and her friends have drawn various animals and the text 'It's their planet too', as they join tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - in marching through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_094...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Lutheran World Federation staff Savanna Sullivan holds a banner reading 'God saw everything that God had made, and indeed, it was very good', as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - gather to march through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_076...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Lutheran World Federation staff Chad Rimmer holds a banner reading 'God saw everything that God had made, and indeed, it was very good', as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - gather to march through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_074...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Linnea Aronson from ACT Church of Sweden holds a banner reading 'Creation - Not for Sale', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH2_531...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Linnea Aronson from ACT Church of Sweden holds a banner reading 'Creation - Not for Sale', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH2_529...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Linnea Aronson from ACT Church of Sweden holds a banner reading 'Creation - Not for Sale', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH1_047...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a banner reading 'Sace the planet', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH1_018...jpg
  • 30 October 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: 'Together for our planet' reads a United Nations COP26 banner on Buchanan street in front of St George's Tron Church at Nelson Mandela Place in central Glasgow, in the days before the UNFCCC Climate Change conference COP26 is to be held in the city.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211030_AH1_728...jpg
  • As part of a celebration of International Women's Day in Chennai, India, the Madras Christian Council of Social Service invited women to mark their stamp on a banner protesting the high cost of basic food commodities. The stamps were made from vegetables.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-194.jpg
  • As part of a celebration of International Women's Day in Chennai, India, the Madras Christian Council of Social Service invited women to mark their stamp on a banner protesting the high cost of basic food commodities. The stamps were made from vegetables.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-193.jpg
  • Participants--holding a banner referencing the high number of people with HIV who die of TB--march in 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, Rights now."
    austria-2010-jeffrey-aids-conference...jpg
  • Women associated with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) carry a banner during 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."
    austria-2010-jeffrey-aids-conference...jpg
  • On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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A young woman holds a banner of COPINH with the face of Berta Cáceres.
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  • On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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The banner proclaims 'Your bullets don't kill our dreams, COPINH'
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  • On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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The banner reads 'DESA is the intellectual author of the assassination of Berta Cáceres'. DESA is the company that wanted to build a dam on the river Gualcarque, that Cáceres protested.
    Honduras_Hawkey_BertaCaceres_2017030...jpg
  • A bus in San Salvador draped with a large banner that read: "FMLN Frente Felicano Ama" during the celebrations of the signing of the peace agreement, January 1992
    El_Salvador_Hawkey_Peace_20170116_01...jpg
  • 25 November 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: "Stop deporting people to a country that isn't safe", was the message as hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered at Medborgarplatsen in central Stockholm, to highlight Sweden's Refugee Day, and the way Swedish authorities keep persisting in deporting young people to Afghanistan. The event marked two years since November 2015, when Swedish government officials took a turn towards stricter policies for granting refugee status to asylum seekers, and so a range of civil society organizations, including faith-based organizations, now take a stand for more humane refugee policies. Here, a banner from Studenter mot Rasism ('Students against Racism").
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20171125_AHP_952...jpg
  • 30 October 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: 'Together for our planet' reads a United Nations COP26 banner on Buchanan street in front of St George's Tron Church at Nelson Mandela Place in central Glasgow, in the days before the UNFCCC Climate Change conference COP26 is to be held in the city.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211030_AH2_405...jpg
  • Members of First United Methodist Church of Seattle, including this young girl, hold a banner as they participated in a rally in downtown Seattle calling for stricter regulations of firearms. Sponsored by a network of churches and other groups called "Stand-up Washington," the demonstrators called for a state ban on semi-automatic weapons as well as stricter gun laws.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-seattle-gun-march-2...jpg
  • Members of First United Methodist Church of Seattle carry a banner as they joined hundreds of other Seattle residents who marched from Westlake Center Park to the Seattle Center on January 13, 2013, calling for stricter regulations of firearms. Sponsored by a network of churches and other groups called "Stand-up Washington," the demonstrators called for a state ban on semi-automatic weapons as well as stricter gun laws.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-seattle-gun-march-0...jpg
  • A young boy from the indigenous village of San Fernando, on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, who with his family fled his home on March 14, 2012, shortly after the March 5 assassination of Jimmy Liguyon, their baranguay captain. Liguyon, pictured on the banner, was killed by a paramilitary squad led by Aldy Salusad, which was angered by Liguyon's refusal to sign papers ceding the community's land to a large mining company. Convinced they were also in danger from Salusad and his military allies, community members fled to the provincial capital of Malaybalay, where they have set up temporary shelters on the grass in front of provincial offices. They promise not to leave until there is justice in the killing of Liguyon..
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  • The Rev. JP Mokgethi-Heath, Church of Sweden policy advisor on HIV and Theology (second from left) and Astrid Berner-Rodoreda, an HIV policy advisor at Bread for the World in Germany, help hold a banner from the Kwazulu Regional Christian Council during a popular march through the streets of Durban, South Africa, demanding better funding for HIV and AIDS treatment around the world. The demonstration took place on the first day of the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban.
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  • Women march together in celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2016, in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. <br />
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The banner reads, "106th International Women's Day" and "Implement the Constitution and Guarantee Women's Rights."
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308362.jpg
  • Women march together in celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2016, in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. The banner reads, "106th International Women's Day" and "Implement the Constitution and Guarantee Women's Rights."
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308151.JPG
  • Women march together in celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2016, in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. <br />
<br />
The banner reads, "106th International Women's Day" and "Implement the Constitution and Guarantee Women's Rights."
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308172.jpg
  • People make hand prints on a banner at the CROP Hunger Walk, held October 27, 2013, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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  • A woman puts her hand print on a banner at the CROP Hunger Walk, held October 27, 2013, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-crop-walk-hunger-01.jpg
  • GUATEMALA CITY - 26 APRIL 03 - Guatemalans participate in a march to remember slain Catholic Bishop Juan Gerardi on April 26. The banner they carry reads "Guatemala: Never Again!", the title of a landmark human rights report the bishop issued two days before he was killed in 1998. Church leaders and human rights activists celebrated the fifth anniversary of Gerardi's killing with new calls for justice in the Central American country.
    guatemala-1990s-jeffrey-maya-religio...jpg
  • Members of First United Methodist Church of Seattle hold a banner as they joined hundreds of other Seattle residents who marched from Westlake Center Park to the Seattle Center on January 13, 2013, calling for stricter regulations of firearms. Sponsored by a network of churches and other groups called "Stand-up Washington," the demonstrators called for a state ban on semi-automatic weapons as well as stricter gun laws.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-seattle-gun-march-2...jpg
  • Several pro-gun activists, including these men carrying a banner favoring open carry laws, showed up for a January 13, 2013, rally in Seattle calling for stricter regulations of firearms. Sponsored by a network of churches and other groups called "Stand-up Washington," the demonstrators called for a state ban on semi-automatic weapons as well as stricter gun laws. The presence of pro-gun activists provoked heated discussions, but none of them shot anyone during the event.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-seattle-gun-march-1...jpg
  • Women gather to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, 2016, in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal.<br />
<br />
The banner reads, "106th International Women's Day" and "Implement the Constitution and Guarantee Women's Rights."
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308392.jpg
  • Women march together in celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2016, in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal.<br />
<br />
The banner reads, "106th International Women's Day" and "Implement the Constitution and Guarantee Women's Rights."
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308335.jpg
  • Women march together in celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2016, in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. <br />
<br />
The banner reads, "106th International Women's Day" and "Implement the Constitution and Guarantee Women's Rights."
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308185.jpg
  • Liturgical dancers from Indonesia lift banners highlighting themes of importance during the October 13, 2017, session of the Asia Mission Conference in Yangon, Myanmar.
    myanmar-2017-jeffrey-amc-B025.JPG
  • Liturgical dancers from Indonesia lift banners highlighting themes of importance during the October 13, 2017, session of the Asia Mission Conference in Yangon, Myanmar.
    myanmar-2017-jeffrey-amc-B024.JPG
  • Liturgical dancers from Indonesia carry banners highlighting themes of importance during the October 13, 2017, session of the Asia Mission Conference in Yangon, Myanmar.
    myanmar-2017-jeffrey-amc-B026.JPG
  • Liturgical dancers from Indonesia lift banners highlighting themes of importance during the October 13, 2017, session of the Asia Mission Conference in Yangon, Myanmar.
    myanmar-2017-jeffrey-amc-B023.JPG
  • The Cathedral of San Salvador, draped with banners from social organisations in El Salvador,  December 1991.
    El_Salvador_Hawkey_Peace_20170116_01...jpg
  • Liturgical dancers from Indonesia lift banners highlighting themes of importance during the October 13, 2017, session of the Asia Mission Conference in Yangon, Myanmar.
    myanmar-2017-jeffrey-amc-B022.JPG
  • Catholics in Southern Sudan participate in a procession through the streets of Juba on November 20 to pray for a peaceful January 2011 referendum on secession from the north of the country. The independence vote has widespread support throughout Southern Sudan, including among Christians. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-misc-015.jpg
  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group dance and sing as they gather at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220402_AH2_428...jpg
  • 6 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Newly established support centre for Ukrainian refugees, run by Hungarian Interchurch Aid at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Hungarian Interchurch Aid offers support to refugee families from Ukraine, who in many cases have to wait several days for onward travel from the airport in Budapest. At the support centre, HIA provides food supplies, diapers and other necessities for children, some toys to play with for the children, as well as simple accommodation for families at the airport or in nearby hotels. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220306_AH2_66...jpg
  • 31 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Participants arrive on the opening day of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.<br />
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The WCC Assembly takes place August 31 to September 8 under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Climate protest underway outside the Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn Old Town, against the passing of an Estonian law on the very same day that subsidizes burning of biomass for production of electricity, effectively risking to lead to deforestation and emmission of carbon dioxide. The protest is held under the slogan 'Save our forests'. [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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  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Religious leaders from a variety of faiths - among them Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén (centre), Anglican Bishop Rev. Mark Strange (right) and James Robert Wallace, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (left) march through Kelvingrove park, as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - march through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_096...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A group of religious leaders from a variety of faiths rally, as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - march through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH1_081...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A woman from ACT Church of Sweden holds a sign reading 'Act Now for Climate Justiice' as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH2_531...jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Ten-year-old Zoe marches with her aunt Carla Easton holding a sign reading 'Go Greta' - referring to climate activist Greta Thunberg - as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A man holds a sign reading 'I't Capitalism ya Eejits', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: 'I'm with her' reads a sign with arrows pointing at a drawing of the Earth, as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A man holds a sign reading 'We cannot fail', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Climate activist Greta Thunberg marches in Glasgow, as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a sign reading 'Climate change has to stop now', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl (left) holds a sign reading 'Climate change has to stop now' and another girl holds a sign reading 'Planet not profit', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • 13 September 2021, Berlin, Germany: An international symposium on Social Justice in a Digital Age is held in Berlin, Germany. Co-organised by the World Council of Churches and World Association for Christian Communication, the event brings together research, experiences from different regions and marginalized communities, expert input on economic and political trends, and ethical and theological reflection as a contribution to the WCC 11th Assembly in September 2022.
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  • United Methodist leaders join a march in support of immigrants rights during the 2010 Assembly of United Methodist Women in St. Louis, Missouri. From left, Harriett Jane Olson, Inelda González, Fulata Mbano-Moyo, Bishop Minerva Carcaño, Bishop John Schol, Mabel Unser, and Maggie Jackson. Photo by Paul Jeffrey/Response.
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  • A liturgical dancer waves a flag during worship on February 24, 2019, at the Special Session of the General Conference of The United Methodist Church, held in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Paul Jeffrey for United Methodist News Service.
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  • 23 July 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Katy Ajer from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Religious leaders march through Amsterdam as part of their participation in the International AIDS Conference 2018, promoting access to testing and treatment for HIV, human rights, and the building of bridges, between faiths and between faith and other sectors for a coordinated HIV response. The 2018 International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2018, takes place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 23-27 July 2018. The event brings together people from around the globe, including a wide range of medical expertise, researchers, pharmaceuticals, governmental and non-governmental organizations, faith communities and faith-based organizations as well as other civil society stakeholders and individuals, for days of learning, sharing and interaction.
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  • With the Washington Monument in the background, people march through the streets of Washington, DC, on July 22, 2012, to demand that the U.S. and other governments keep their promises to fund global relief programs for those living with HIV and AIDS. The march took place as more than 23,000 delegates gathered in the US capital city for the XIX International AIDS Conference.
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  • Emma Cantor (second from right), a regional missionary for United Methodist Women, leads a workshop for women in Hyderabad, India. Cantor is from the Philippines.
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  • Proponents of the "Robin Hood Tax"--a small surcharge on international financial transactions--march in 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, Rights now."
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  • Catholic school girls participate in a procession through the streets of Juba on November 20 to pray for a peaceful January 2011 referendum on Southern Sudan's secession from the north of the country. The independence vote has widespread support throughout Southern Sudan, including among Catholics and other Christians. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Catholics in Southern Sudan participate in a procession through the streets of Juba on November 20 to pray for a peaceful January 2011 referendum on secession from the north of the country. The independence vote has widespread support throughout Southern Sudan, including among Christians. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance 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 mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Religious leaders at the head of a march in Davao on March 12, 2003, to repudiate the March 4 terrorist bombing of the Davao airport. While the government quickly blamed Muslim separatists for the blast, church leaders weren't so sure, and some even suggested the Philippine military may have been behind the bombing, which killed 21 people and wounded more than 100.
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  • Staff of member agencies of the ACT Alliance pose for a photo in Tacloban, a city in the Philippines that was ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
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  • Protesting the government's response to Typhoon Haiyan, more than 5,000 protestors took to the streets of Tacloban, in the southern Philippines, on the eve of the one-year commemoration of the devastating storm. Known locally as Typhoon Yolanda, the storm killed more than 7,000 people dead and millions displaced.
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  • Foreign domestic workers and their supporters demonstrate in the lobby of the Philippine consulate in Hong Kong in favor of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina overseas worker who was arrested and sentenced to death for smuggling heroin into Indonesia. She claims she was duped. Her case has sparked international attention towards Indonesia's capital punishment and drug prohibition laws, and the vulnerability of overseas workers.
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  • 23 July 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Toni Kruger-Ayebazibwe from the Global Interfaith Network for People of All Sexes, Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions. Religious leaders march through Amsterdam as part of their participation in the International AIDS Conference 2018, promoting access to testing and treatment for HIV, human rights, and the building of bridges, between faiths and between faith and other sectors for a coordinated HIV response. The 2018 International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2018, takes place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 23-27 July 2018. The event brings together people from around the globe, including a wide range of medical expertise, researchers, pharmaceuticals, governmental and non-governmental organizations, faith communities and faith-based organizations as well as other civil society stakeholders and individuals, for days of learning, sharing and interaction.
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  • On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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Here Garifuna people sing and dance during the march.
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  • Honduran indigenous leader and environmentalist campaigner Berta Cáceres was shot dead at home by armed men on March 2nd 2016. Her case is emblematic, but it is one of over a hundred assassinations of environmentalist and indigenous leaders since the coup that ousted Mel Zelaya in 2009.  Her killing caused international outcry.
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  • 10 December 2017, Oslo, Norway: In the evening of 10 December some 4,000 people from around the world gathered in central Oslo for a torch light march for peace. The event took place after the Nobel Peace Prize award 2017, awarded 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". Among the crowd were more than 20 "Hibakusha", survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as a range of activists, faith-based organizations and others who work or support work for peace, in one or another way. Here, Hayley Ramsay-Jones from Soka Gakkai International. Soka Gakkai is a worldwide Buddhist network which promotes peace, culture and education through personal transformation and social contribution. It is a Japanese religious movement founded in 1930.
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  • 27 October 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 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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  • Church activists take to the streets of Manila on September 21, 2022, to protest the 50th anniversary of martial law in the Philippines. Church leaders earlier in the day commemorated the anniversary with a memorial service for church activists killed during martial law, which was imposed by President Ferdinand Marcos and effectively lasted until a pro-democracy uprising drove Marcos from office in 1986. His son was elected president in May, and rising repression has many church leaders concerned about a return to the past.
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  • Beh Meh speaks during the graduation ceremony of an adult literacy program in which she participated in the Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee camp where she lives. The camp, located inside Thailand, is home to thousands of refugees from Myanmar.<br />
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The literacy program was sponsored by Jesuit Refugee Service.
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  • 31 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Participants arrive on the opening day of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.<br />
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The WCC Assembly takes place August 31 to September 8 under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 31 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Participants greet each other as they arrive on the opening day of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.<br />
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The WCC Assembly takes place August 31 to September 8 under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 31 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Participants greet each other on the first day of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.<br />
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The WCC Assembly takes place August 31 to September 8 under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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