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  • 14 March 2022, Pozdišovce, Slovakia: A woman lays her hand on a book of hymns during Sunday service at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pozdišovce. [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.]
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  • 14 March 2022, Pozdišovce, Slovakia: Book of hymns open during Sunday service at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pozdišovce. [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.]
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  • Mekiya Kebir and her children, recently arrived refugees from Eritrea, explore a book in their apartment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They got the book and other educational materials from Church World Service, which resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Mekiya Kebir and her children, recently arrived refugees from Eritrea, explore a book in their apartment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They got the book and other educational materials from Church World Service, which resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Mekiya Kebir and her children, recently arrived refugees from Eritrea, explore a book in their apartment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They got the book and other educational materials from Church World Service, which resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Mekiya Kebir and her children, recently arrived refugees from Eritrea, explore a book in their apartment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They got the book and other educational materials from Church World Service, which resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Christine Baer, a congregational resource developer with Church World Service in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, helps Mekiya Kebir and her children Hashim and Aysha read a book as she delivers a backpack full of books and art supplies to the recently arrived Eritrean refugee family. Church World Service resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Christine Baer, a congregational resource developer with Church World Service in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, helps read a book as she delivers a backpack full of books and art supplies to children of a recently arrived refugee family from Eritrea. Church World Service resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Christine Baer, a congregational resource developer with Church World Service in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, helps Mekiya Kebir and her 2-year old son Hashim read a book as she delivers a backpack full of books and art supplies to the recently arrived Eritrean refugee family. Church World Service resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A boy looks at a page in the hymn book as Sunday service gathers several hundred congregants in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A man looks at a hymn book as Sunday service gathers several hundred congregants in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • Rachel Bachenberg from Missouri (left) gets a book autographed on April 26, 2014, by author Joan Maruskin during the United Methodist Women Assembly in the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
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  • 5 March 2023, Bielsko-biała, Poland: Congregants stand for a moment of prayer, hymn book in hand, as Sunday service is celebrated at the chapel of the Cieszyn Diocese of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, in the House of Betania. The House of Betania is not only used for Sunday worship, but has become the home of a number of refugee families from Ukraine, following the Russian invasion in February 2022. The church has renovated the buildings in order to accommodate families in a dormitory style, with private rooms for each family and a shared kitchen, dining room, playing room and hygiene facilities. The house currently hosts 7 families making up a total of some 20 people, most of them women and children. [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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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A boy looks at a page in the hymn book as Sunday service gathers several hundred congregants in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Gospel book on shelf at the Lutheran church at Deák tér in Budapest. [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.]
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  • 26 September 2021, Keila, Estonia: A woman looks at her book of hymns during Sunday service in Keila Church, the biggest medieval country church in Harju county in Estonia, with an active congregation of some 300-400 people, and counting more than 2,000 baptized. [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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  • Rose Simmons (right) celebrates as Esther Solis masters reading a book during a session of the Schools of Hope program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The after school program, which helps children who are behind in reading skills, is sponsored by the United Methodist Community House, where Simmons is the program director. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Esther Solis reads a book in a session of the Schools of Hope program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The after school program, which helps children who are behind in reading skills, is sponsored by the United Methodist Community House. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • A woman signs a receipt book upon receiving a package of food and other emergency supplies from the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate. The material provided here by LWF included material provided by Church World Service, another member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • Children at a display table at a book festival in Mosul, Iraq, on November 30, 2018. The festival celebrated the rebirth of culture in the wake of the city's liberation in 2017 from control by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS.
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  • Children at a display table at a book festival in Mosul, Iraq, on November 30, 2018. The festival celebrated the rebirth of culture in the wake of the city's liberation in 2017 from control by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS.
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  • 18 November 2018, Bogotá, Colombia: Himn book entitled 'Evangelical Lutheran Hymns'. The church of San Lucas ('Saint Lucas') of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia, brings together a congregation of some 100 people in the southern areas of Bogotá. Located in the Kennedy area, the church has recently celebrated 50 years. As part of its ministry, the church runs a school and college, The Colegio Evangelico Luterano de Colombia (CELCO) San Lucas, offering education to just over 1,000 students aged 3-18. The school started as a social initiative offering care for children aged 0-4 in Bogotá's less wealthy neighbourhood, allowing the parents opportunities to go to work. 36 years after its foundation, the school employs 56 staff, of which 36 are teachers.
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  • Rose Simmons (right) celebrates with Esther Solis as the girl masters reading a book during a session of the Schools of Hope program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The after school program, which helps children who are behind in reading skills, is sponsored by the United Methodist Community House, where Simmons is the program director. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-grand-rapids-45.jpg
  • Rose Simmons (left) helps Esther Solis read a book during a session of the Schools of Hope program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The after school program, which helps children who are behind in reading skills, is sponsored by the United Methodist Community House, where Simmons is the program director. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-grand-rapids-42.jpg
  • Rose Simmons (right) helps Esther Solis read a book during a session of the Schools of Hope program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The after school program, which helps children who are behind in reading skills, is sponsored by the United Methodist Community House, where Simmons is the program director. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Roshanda Green reads a book to her son Tyshon in their apartment in East St. Louis, Illinois. Green has participated in child development and skills training programs of the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House, and her son attends the center's day care program.
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  • A girl reads a book in the child care center of the Wesley House Community Center in Meridian, Mississippi. Wesley House provides a variety of educational and other services to the community.
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  • Roshanda Green reads a book to her son Tyshon in their apartment in East St. Louis, Illinois. Green has participated in child development and skills training programs of the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House, and her son attends the center's day care program.
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  • Students share a book in a classroom in Malakal, Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Students share a book in a classroom in Malakal, Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Eulalia Miguel and son Cristopher ride a Greyhound bus at night through Texas on December 2, 2015. Miguel and her son fled Guatemala in 2015 because of domestic violence. After requesting political asylum in the United States, they were held for several days by immigration officials and then released, after which they stayed in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. After that, they traveled by bus to a new location in the United States, where they will live pending a final decision on her request for asylum. The coloring book being used by Christopher was included in a backpack of materials provided by the Interfaith Welcome Coalition.
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  • Eulalia Miguel and son Cristopher wait for a bus in the Greyhound station in San Antonio, Texas, on December 2, 2015. Miguel and her son fled Guatemala in 2015 because of domestic violence. After requesting political asylum in the United States, they were held for several days by immigration officials and then released, after which they stayed in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. After that, they traveled by bus to a new location in the United States, where they will live pending a final decision on her request for asylum. The coloring book being used by Christopher was included in a backpack of materials provided by the Interfaith Welcome Coalition.
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  • An older boy helps a younger boy read a book in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the after school program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
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  • A girl reads a book outside her family's tent in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria. International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
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  • Boys salute as they lead participants in singing the national anthem during a November 30, 2018, book festival in Mosul, Iraq. The event celebrated the restoration of cultural freedom since the defeat of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS.
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  • Four-year old Neama browses through a book in her family's transitional house in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The house was provided by the local government after the family's home was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 2014. The family received a water tank and hygiene supplies from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Before the water tank was installed, the children of the family had to walk 15 minutes to a United Nations school to carry back water. Now, according to their mother, they can spend their time studying.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Four-year old Neama browses through a book in her family's transitional house in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The house was provided by the local government after the family's home was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 2014. The family received a water tank and hygiene supplies from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Before the water tank was installed, the children of the family had to walk 15 minutes to a United Nations school to carry back water. Now, according to their mother, they can spend their time studying.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Christine Baer, a congregational resource developer with Church World Service in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, visits with Mekiya Kebir and her children as 2-year old son Hashim imitates a growling bear.  Baer delivered a backpack full of books and art supplies to the recently arrived Eritrean refugee family. Church World Service resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • 3 March 2023, Radom, Poland: Text books for Polish class pictured in a classroom at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, Radom Parish. Following the arrival of Ukrainian refugees in Poland as Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, the parish offers Polish classes in order to help the refugees integrate and find new opportunities in Polish society. The classes are supported by the Lutheran World Federation. [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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  • 3 March 2023, Radom, Poland: Text books for Polish class pictured in a classroom at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, Radom Parish. Following the arrival of Ukrainian refugees in Poland as Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, the parish offers Polish classes in order to help the refugees integrate and find new opportunities in Polish society. The classes are supported by the Lutheran World Federation. [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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  • 3 March 2023, Radom, Poland: Text books for Polish class pictured in a classroom at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, Radom Parish. Following the arrival of Ukrainian refugees in Poland as Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, the parish offers Polish classes in order to help the refugees integrate and find new opportunities in Polish society. The classes are supported by the Lutheran World Federation. [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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  • 14 March 2022, Pozdišovce, Slovakia: A woman prays during Sunday service at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pozdišovce. [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.]
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  • 14 March 2022, Pozdišovce, Slovakia: A woman sings during Sunday service at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pozdišovce. [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.]
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  • 21 January 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Baptism ceremony in Brevik Church in Lidingö near Stockholm, Sweden. Rev. Sara Hillert led the day's ceremony, which was attended by a range of friends and family.
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  • Muhammadin displays his savings passbook in Kubang Gajah in Indonesia's Aceh province. The tsunami-ravaged community got help from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, when it helped residents start a credit and loan cooperative. That allowed villagers to get their local economy moving quickly again, even as decisions about housing location lingered.
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  • Women sing during Catholic Mass in St. Ignatius, Guyana.
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  • 17 December 2016, Cairo, Egypt: An ancient Bible found in the library of the Coptic Orthodox Saint Macarius Monastery.
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  • 5 March 2023, Bielsko-biała, Poland: 10-year-old Artem from Pryluky (Chernihiv), Ukraine, flicks through his copy of 'My first Bible' in his home in the House of Betania in the Wapienica area of Bielsko-biała. Owned by the Cieszyn Diocese of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, the House of Betania in the Wapienica area of Bielsko-biała has become the home of a number of refugee families from Ukraine, following the Russian invasion in February 2022. The church has renovated the buildings in order to accommodate families in a dormitory style, with private rooms for each family and a shared kitchen, dining room, playing room and hygiene facilities. The house currently hosts 7 families making up a total of some 20 people, most of them women and children. [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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  • 5 March 2023, Bielsko-biała, Poland: His mother Nataliia Bakumenko looking on, 10-year-old Artem from Pryluky (Chernihiv), Ukraine, flicks through his copy of 'My first Bible' in his home in the House of Betania in the Wapienica area of Bielsko-biała. Owned by the Cieszyn Diocese of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, the House of Betania in the Wapienica area of Bielsko-biała has become the home of a number of refugee families from Ukraine, following the Russian invasion in February 2022. The church has renovated the buildings in order to accommodate families in a dormitory style, with private rooms for each family and a shared kitchen, dining room, playing room and hygiene facilities. The house currently hosts 7 families making up a total of some 20 people, most of them women and children. [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 November 2022, Jerusalem, Palestine: A woman sits down to read at the compound of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem old city.
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  • 24 November 2022, Jerusalem, Palestine: Copies of the Koran, the holy scripture of the religion of Islam, pictured sitting on a shelf inside the Dome of the Rock at the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem old city.
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  • 14 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Lidija Tselsdorf, Head of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Catherine in Kyiv (right) and Lutheran World Federation team leader for Ukraine Bhoj Khanal (left), pictured inside the Church of Saint Catherine. The church of Saint Catherine is one of the congregations of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, a member church of the Lutheran World Federation. [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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  • 26 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: 'Open and read' says a sign in Swedish, in the Swedish Saint Michael's Church in Tallinn. [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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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: Bible in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, placed in the church during Sunday service.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: H.E. Archbishop Prof. Dr Job of Telmessos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (centre) presides over the Divine Liturgy as Sunday service is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni - aided by Deacon Marios Andreou of the Church of Cyprus (right) and Patriarchal Deacon Oecumenius Amanatidis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (left). The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: H.E. Archbishop Prof. Dr Job of Telmessos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate places his hands on the liturgy, as Sunday service is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: H.E. Archbishop Prof. Dr Job of Telmessos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (centre) presides over the Divine Liturgy as Sunday service is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 12 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: His Eminence Metropolitan Dr Vasilios of Constantia and Ammochostos of the Church of Cyprus receives the holy Bible as a Feast of Saint Epiphanius - one of the patron saints of the Church of Cyprus - is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to study, discuss and reflect on the main theme of the WCC 11th Assembly, "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity" from an Orthodox perspective. Discussions also center around current global challenges and how the Orthodox agenda at the WCC 11th Assembly can keep dialogue open.
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  • 10 May 2022, Agia Napa, Cyprus: V. Rev. Archimandrite Iakovos Andriopoulos reads from the Bible as participants at an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly gather for morning prayer in the Monastery of Agia Napa. The consultation brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to study, discuss and reflect on the main theme of the WCC 11th Assembly, "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity" from an Orthodox perspective.  <br />
Discussions also center around current global challenges and how the Orthodox agenda at the WCC 11th Assembly can keep dialogue open.
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  • 3 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: Anglican Bishop Emmanuel Murye Modi of the Episcopal Diocese of Kajo-Keji leads Sunday service in the Palorinya refugee settlement. Following the eruption of war in South Sudan, the Diocese of Kajo-Keji in the country’s Central Equatoria State, decided to move with some 350 congregants to seek refuge in neighboring Uganda. The diocese is since hosted under the auspices of the Diocesan office of the Anglican Church in Moyo, Uganda, and is able to continue to gather and worship as a congregation in the Palorinya 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.]
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  • 3 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A woman reads the Bible during Sunday service at the Macedonia church in Palorinya refugee settlement, West Nile area of northern Uganda. Following the eruption of war in South Sudan, the Diocese of Kajo-Keji in the country’s Central Equatoria State, decided to move with some 350 congregants to seek refuge in neighboring Uganda. The diocese is since hosted under the auspices of the Diocesan office of the Anglican Church in Moyo, Uganda, and is able to continue to gather and worship as a congregation in the Palorinya 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.]
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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Congregants read a Bible passage during Sunday service in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A group of nurses join a moment of prayer in the chapel of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis. [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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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A group of nurses join a moment of prayer in the chapel of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis. [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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  • 5 March 2023, Bielsko-biała, Poland: A copy of 'My first Bible' rests on the bedside table of a Ukrainian refugee child's home in the House of Betania in the Wapienica area of Bielsko-biała. Owned by the Cieszyn Diocese of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, the House of Betania in the Wapienica area of Bielsko-biała has become the home of a number of refugee families from Ukraine, following the Russian invasion in February 2022. The church has renovated the buildings in order to accommodate families in a dormitory style, with private rooms for each family and a shared kitchen, dining room, playing room and hygiene facilities. The house currently hosts 7 families making up a total of some 20 people, most of them women and children. [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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  • 5 March 2023, Bielsko-biała, Poland: The altar is set, as Sunday service is celebrated at the chapel of the Cieszyn Diocese of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, in the House of Betania. The House of Betania is not only used for Sunday worship, but has become the home of a number of refugee families from Ukraine, following the Russian invasion in February 2022. The church has renovated the buildings in order to accommodate families in a dormitory style, with private rooms for each family and a shared kitchen, dining room, playing room and hygiene facilities. The house currently hosts 7 families making up a total of some 20 people, most of them women and children. [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 November 2022, Jerusalem, Palestine: Copies of the Koran, the holy scripture of the religion of Islam, pictured sitting on a shelf inside the Dome of the Rock at the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem old city.
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  • 24 November 2022, Jerusalem, Palestine: Copies of the Koran, the holy scripture of the religion of Islam, pictured sitting on a shelf inside the Dome of the Rock at the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem old city.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: Bible in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, placed in the church during Sunday service.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: Lturgy sits on the altar, as Sunday service is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: Patriarchal Deacon Oecumenius Amanatidis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate presents the Bible to H.E. Archbishop Prof. Dr Job of Telmessos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, during Sunday service at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, in Paralimni, Cyprus on 15 May. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 3 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A woman reads the Bible during Sunday service at the Macedonia church in Palorinya refugee settlement, West Nile area of northern Uganda. Following the eruption of war in South Sudan, the Diocese of Kajo-Keji in the country’s Central Equatoria State, decided to move with some 350 congregants to seek refuge in neighboring Uganda. The diocese is since hosted under the auspices of the Diocesan office of the Anglican Church in Moyo, Uganda, and is able to continue to gather and worship as a congregation in the Palorinya 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.]
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  • 3 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A woman reads the Bible during Sunday service at the Macedonia church in Palorinya refugee settlement, West Nile area of northern Uganda. Following the eruption of war in South Sudan, the Diocese of Kajo-Keji in the country’s Central Equatoria State, decided to move with some 350 congregants to seek refuge in neighboring Uganda. The diocese is since hosted under the auspices of the Diocesan office of the Anglican Church in Moyo, Uganda, and is able to continue to gather and worship as a congregation in the Palorinya 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.]
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  • 3 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: Anglican Bishop Emmanuel Murye Modi of the Episcopal Diocese of Kajo-Keji leads Sunday service in the Palorinya refugee settlement. Following the eruption of war in South Sudan, the Diocese of Kajo-Keji in the country’s Central Equatoria State, decided to move with some 350 congregants to seek refuge in neighboring Uganda. The diocese is since hosted under the auspices of the Diocesan office of the Anglican Church in Moyo, Uganda, and is able to continue to gather and worship as a congregation in the Palorinya 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.]
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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A young congregant rests their head against a staircase while holding an open Bible in their hands during Sunday service in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A group of nurses join a moment of prayer in the chapel of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis. [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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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A group of nurses join a moment of prayer in the chapel of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis. [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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  • A girl sings during a prayer service in St. Mary's Catholic Church in the Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee camp in Thailand. The camp is home to thousands of refugees from Myanmar.
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  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Students from the Tallinn Cathedral School celebrate Saint Michael's Day through a prayer service in the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church's Saint Mary's Cathedral (Toom Kirik, or Dome Church) in the Tallinn Old Town. [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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  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Students from the Tallinn Cathedral School celebrate Saint Michael's Day through a prayer service in the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church's Saint Mary's Cathedral (Toom Kirik, or Dome Church) in the Tallinn Old Town. [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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  • 1 March 2020, Bethlehem: Sunday service in the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem.
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  • 1 March 2020, Bethlehem: Sunday service in the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem.
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  • 19 February 2020, Amman, Jordan: 10-year-old Bayan, a girl born with Cerebral Palsy, attends class at the Al Yarmouk Primary Mixed School, in the Lewa'a Al Jama'a district.  Following three years in a school exclusively for children with disabilities, today she attends 4th grade at Al Yarmouk, which has recently opened up to receive her. The school teaches some 750 students from 1st - 6th grade, most of them Jordanian, but some also from Syria and other countries. The school has received support from the Lutheran World Federation in refurbishing their buildings and classrooms, as well as training on protection and social cohesion, including how to become more inclusive of children with disabilities. [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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  • 19 February 2020, Amman, Jordan: 10-year-old Bayan, a girl born with Cerebral Palsy, attends class at the Al Yarmouk Primary Mixed School, in the Lewa'a Al Jama'a district.  Following three years in a school exclusively for children with disabilities, today she attends 4th grade at Al Yarmouk, which has recently opened up to receive her. The school teaches some 750 students from 1st - 6th grade, most of them Jordanian, but some also from Syria and other countries. The school has received support from the Lutheran World Federation in refurbishing their buildings and classrooms, as well as training on protection and social cohesion, including how to become more inclusive of children with disabilities. [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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  • 19 February 2020, Amman, Jordan: 10-year-old Bayan, a girl born with Cerebral Palsy, attends class at the Al Yarmouk Primary Mixed School, in the Lewa'a Al Jama'a district.  Following three years in a school exclusively for children with disabilities, today she attends 4th grade at Al Yarmouk, which has recently opened up to receive her. The school teaches some 750 students from 1st - 6th grade, most of them Jordanian, but some also from Syria and other countries. The school has received support from the Lutheran World Federation in refurbishing their buildings and classrooms, as well as training on protection and social cohesion, including how to become more inclusive of children with disabilities. [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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  • 19 February 2020, Amman, Jordan: A group of boys make use of a room called 'Spaces for Creativity' at the Al Areen Secondary School for Boys in the Al Jeeza district. The room has emerged through a project by the Lutheran World Federation, whereby the school buildings and classrooms have been refurbished, and a school initiative has introduced 'Spaces for Creativity' as a way of nurturing students' creative and thinking skills. This type of learning environment is otherwise rare in Jordanian public shools. The Al Areen Secondary school teaches boys from 4th - 12th grade, most of them Jordanian, but a few also of other nationalities. [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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  • A boy studies his homework in Shankarpur, a village in India's Assam region.
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  • Tara Bunton reads to children in the Mitchell Woods Preschool run by InterServ Community Services in St. Joseph, Missouri. The preschool includes children from six weeks to 5 years of age. InterServ is an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Leslie Lenau makes a face as she reads to children in a session of the Schools of Hope program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The after school program, which helps children who are behind in reading skills, is sponsored by the United Methodist Community House. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Leslie Lenau reads to children in a session of the Schools of Hope program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The after school program, which helps children who are behind in reading skills, is sponsored by the United Methodist Community House. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Leslie Lenau reads to children in a session of the Schools of Hope program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The after school program, which helps children who are behind in reading skills, is sponsored by the United Methodist Community House. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • 9 April 2017, Botkyrka, Sweden: Palm Sunday in Tullinge Church, of the Church of Sweden.
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  • 21 January 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Baptism ceremony in Brevik Church in Lidingö near Stockholm, Sweden. Rev. Sara Hillert led the day's ceremony, which was attended by a range of friends and family.
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  • 22 April 2018, Bogotá, Colombia: Sunday service in Catedral de San Pablo (Saint Paul's Cathedral), in the Chapinero part of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia. Under the leadership of Bishop Right Reverend Francisco Duque, Bishop of Colombia, the church brings together some 100 congregants for mass each Sunday.
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  • 22 April 2018, Bogotá, Colombia: Sunday service in Catedral de San Pablo (Saint Paul's Cathedral), in the Chapinero part of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia. Under the leadership of Bishop Right Reverend Francisco Duque, Bishop of Colombia, the church brings together some 100 congregants for mass each Sunday.
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  • 22 April 2018, Bogotá, Colombia: Sunday service in Catedral de San Pablo (Saint Paul's Cathedral), in the Chapinero part of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia. Under the leadership of Bishop Right Reverend Francisco Duque, Bishop of Colombia, the church brings together some 100 congregants for mass each Sunday.
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  • 22 April 2018, Bogotá, Colombia: Sunday service in Catedral de San Pablo (Saint Paul's Cathedral), in the Chapinero part of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia. Under the leadership of Bishop Right Reverend Francisco Duque, Bishop of Colombia, the church brings together some 100 congregants for mass each Sunday. Here, Bishop Duque leads the service.
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  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
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  • 11 March 2018, Arusha, Tanzania: Young and old, women and men, children and elderly — bringing together a congregation of over 1,000 people, the Arusha Mjini Kati Lutheran Church gathered to celebrate Sunday service on 11 March, together with international visitors participating in the WCC Conference on World Mission and Evangelism.<br />
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The church, which bears its name from its central location in Arusha, Tanzania, has a history of more than 100 years, and is an active body in Evangelical outreach, spreading the Gospel throughout Tanzania. <br />
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Through “creative ministry”, including drama, music and artistic expression, the church explores new ways of engaging young people in the church, and in proclaiming the good news.
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  • 11 March 2018, Arusha, Tanzania: Young and old, women and men, children and elderly — bringing together a congregation of over 1,000 people, the Arusha Mjini Kati Lutheran Church gathered to celebrate Sunday service on 11 March, together with international visitors participating in the WCC Conference on World Mission and Evangelism.<br />
<br />
The church, which bears its name from its central location in Arusha, Tanzania, has a history of more than 100 years, and is an active body in Evangelical outreach, spreading the Gospel throughout Tanzania. <br />
<br />
Through “creative ministry”, including drama, music and artistic expression, the church explores new ways of engaging young people in the church, and in proclaiming the good news.
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