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  • Candle lanterns drift downstream on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan, in front of the city's atomic bomb dome. The floating lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
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  • Candle lanterns drift downstream on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan, in front of the city's atomic bomb dome. The floating lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806409.JPG
  • Candle lanterns drift downstream on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan, in front of the city's atomic bomb dome. The floating lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806309.JPG
  • Candle lanterns drift downstream on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan, in front of the city's atomic bomb dome. The floating lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806164.JPG
  • Candle lanterns drift downstream on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan, in front of the city's atomic bomb dome. The floating lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima_M31.JPG
  • A hanging candle in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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  • A woman participant in the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, holds a candle during a July 22, 2014, candlelight vigil remembering those who have died of HIV and AIDS-related causes.  The vigil followed a march through Melbourne demanding an end to stigma and discrimination.
    australia-2014-jeffrey-aids-conferen...jpg
  • 3 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: A congregant lights a candle to pray as they await Sunday service in the Eastern Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Holy Great Martyr George. On 31 May - 6 June 2018, in Novi Sad, Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church stood as one of the host churches of the Conference of European Churches General Assembly. More than 400 delegates, advisors, stewards, youth, staff, and distinguished guests took part in the Assembly and related events, gathered under the theme, “You shall be my witnesses".
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Father Bernard lowers the candle into the baptismal font during Holy Saturday service at Saint James' Church in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem.
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  • A man holds a candle during a mass in the shadows of the ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was devastated in a January 12 earthquake. Over his hands and arm is draped a crucifix.
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  • A woman holds a candle during a mass in the shadows of the ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was devastated in a January 12 earthquake.
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  • A woman holds a candle during a mass in the shadows of the ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was devastated in a January 12 earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-432.jpg
  • The Rev. Leta Jaona Mavombo, a Methodist pastor from Mozambique, leads children in lighting a candle during worship for refugees from Zimbabwe and other African countries in the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa. The church is home to more than 3,000 refugees suffering from economic desperation and sporadic xenophobic attacks.
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  • 3 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: A congregant lights a candle to pray as they await Sunday service in the Eastern Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Holy Great Martyr George. On 31 May - 6 June 2018, in Novi Sad, Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church stood as one of the host churches of the Conference of European Churches General Assembly. More than 400 delegates, advisors, stewards, youth, staff, and distinguished guests took part in the Assembly and related events, gathered under the theme, “You shall be my witnesses".
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180603_AH2_302...jpg
  • 3 November 2018, Uppsala, Sweden: Amanda Carlshamre, Church of Sweden, lights a candle as prayers are shared from across the globe. Under the same theme as the World Council of Churches Uppsala Assembly in 1968: “Behold, I make all things new!”, religious leaders from all over the world gather in Uppsala on 3-4 November 2018 for an Ecumenical Weekend, not only to celebrate 50 years of global ecumenism since 1968, but also also to raise urgent issues and new challenges facing the ecumenical movement.
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  • A woman held a candle during prayers in the indigenous church of Cacaopera, El Salvador
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  • 3 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: A congregant lights a candle to pray as they await Sunday service in the Eastern Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Holy Great Martyr George. On 31 May - 6 June 2018, in Novi Sad, Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church stood as one of the host churches of the Conference of European Churches General Assembly. More than 400 delegates, advisors, stewards, youth, staff, and distinguished guests took part in the Assembly and related events, gathered under the theme, “You shall be my witnesses".
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180603_AH2_303...jpg
  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Deacon Bassam Ghattas (left) lets the light pass from one candle to another during Holy Saturday service at Saint James' Church in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem.
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  • 7 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: A person lights a candle, as people of faith gather in a 'Prayer for the Rainforest' as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, where faith-based organizations continue to urge decision-makers to take action for climate justice.
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  • 7 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: A young boy places a candle while people of faith gather in a 'Prayer for the Rainforest' as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, where faith-based organizations continue to urge decision-makers to take action for climate justice.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191207_AH2_903...jpg
  • A woman participant in the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, holds a candle during a July 22, 2014, candlelight vigil remembering those who have died of HIV and AIDS-related causes.  The vigil followed a march through Melbourne demanding an end to stigma and discrimination.
    australia-2014-jeffrey-aids-conferen...jpg
  • 18 November 2018, Bogotá, Colombia: School children lead a candle light ceremony. 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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  • 18 November 2018, Bogotá, Colombia: School children lead a candle light ceremony. 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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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: The candle burns, marked with the nails of the crucifixion of Christ, during Holy Saturday service at Saint James' Church in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem.
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  • Small boats holding candles float on the ocean after being placed by residents of the small typhoon-ravaged Jinamoc island in the southern Philippines. They crafted the candle boats for the one year commemoration of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda.
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  • Trisha Manns, a Global Mission Fellow of the United Methodist Church, stands with others as she holds a candle in a December 7, 2017 nighttime vigil in Gwangwha-Mun Square in Seoul, South Korea. The ecumenical Advent vigil was part of "A Light of Peace Campaign" for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Korea.
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  • Baek Seunghoon, a member of the Methodist Church, holds a candle during a December 7, 2017 nighttime vigil in Gwangwha-Mun Square in Seoul, South Korea. The ecumenical Advent vigil was part of "A Light of Peace Campaign" for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Korea.
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  • So Young Choe, a member of the Methodist Church, holds a candle during a December 7, 2017 nighttime vigil in Gwangwha-Mun Square in Seoul, South Korea. The ecumenical Advent vigil was part of "A Light of Peace Campaign" for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Korea.
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  • Trisha Manns, a Global Mission Fellow of The United Methodist Church, holds a candle in a December 7, 2017 nighttime vigil in Gwangwha-Mun Square in Seoul, South Korea. The ecumenical Advent vigil was part of "A Light of Peace Campaign" for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Korea.
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  • The Rev. Jung Hyun Bum, the ecumenical officer for the Korean Methodist Church, holds a candle during a December 7, 2017 nighttime vigil in Gwangwha-Mun Square in Seoul, South Korea. The ecumenical Advent vigil was part of "A Light of Peace Campaign" for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Korea.
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  • A girl carries a candle in a procession at the beginning of an interfaith service in Nagasaki, Japan, to commemorate those who died as the result of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945. Participants in the service, which took place at the hypocenter of the blast, included a team of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who came to Japan to see for themselves the results of the bombings 70 years ago, to listen to survivors and local church leaders, and to recommit themselves to new forms of advocacy for a world free of nuclear weapons.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_nagasaki_M03.JPG
  • A young woman carries a floating candle lantern to the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806261.JPG
  • Sister Yeni Arini Hulu, SCMM, a Sister of Charity, holds a candle during a procession before a rosary mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. <br />
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Note: Her order is Suster Cintakasih dari Maria Bunda Yang Berbelaskasih
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  • Sister Yeni Arini Hulu, SCMM, a member of the Sisters of Charity, holds a candle during a procession before a rosary mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. <br />
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Note: Her order is Suster Cintakasih dari Maria Bunda Yang Berbelaskasih
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-life-54.jpg
  • Sister Yeni Arini Hulu, SCMM, a member of the Sisters of Charity, holds a candle during a procession before a rosary mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. <br />
<br />
Note: Her order is Suster Cintakasih dari Maria Bunda Yang Berbelaskasih
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-life-53.jpg
  • Sister Yeni Arini Hulu, SCMM, a member of the Sisters of Charity, holds a candle during a procession before a rosary mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. <br />
<br />
Note: Her order is Suster Cintakasih dari Maria Bunda Yang Berbelaskasih
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-life-50.jpg
  • A boy holds a small boat he crafted to carry a candle onto the sea that rose up and ravaged his small village on Jinamoc Island in the southern Philippines one year earlier.  Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, killed 55 people on the small island.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-361.jpg
  • A boy holds a small boat he crafted to carry a candle onto the sea that rose up and ravaged his small village on Jinamoc Island in the southern Philippines one year earlier.  Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, killed 55 people on the small island.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-360.jpg
  • A boy holds a small boat he crafted to carry a candle onto the sea that rose up and ravaged his small village on Jinamoc Island in the southern Philippines one year earlier.  Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, killed 55 people on the small island.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-359.jpg
  • A girl holds a candle on Jinamoc Island in the southern Philippines during ceremonies marking the one year anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-358.jpg
  • A boy holds a small boat he crafted to carry a candle onto the sea that rose up and ravaged his small village on Jinamoc Island in the southern Philippines one year earlier.  Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, killed 55 people on the small island.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-357.jpg
  • A girl carries a candle in a procession at the beginning of an interfaith service in Nagasaki, Japan, to commemorate those who died as the result of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945. Participants in the service, which took place at the hypocenter of the blast, included a team of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who came to Japan to see for themselves the results of the bombings 70 years ago, to listen to survivors and local church leaders, and to recommit themselves to new forms of advocacy for a world free of nuclear weapons.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_nagasaki_M04.JPG
  • A girl carries a candle in a procession at the beginning of an interfaith service in Nagasaki, Japan, to commemorate those who died as the result of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945. Participants in the service, which took place at the hypocenter of the blast, included a team of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who came to Japan to see for themselves the results of the bombings 70 years ago, to listen to survivors and local church leaders, and to recommit themselves to new forms of advocacy for a world free of nuclear weapons.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_nagasaki_80801.JPG
  • The reflection in the river of the atomic bomb dome in Hiroshima, Japan. Floating in the river are candle lanterns, thousands of which were launched on August 6, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. Each floating lantern carries handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence. The dome is now a memorial to those killed and injured in the bombing.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806415.JPG
  • The reflection in the river of the atomic bomb dome in Hiroshima, Japan. Floating in the river are candle lanterns, thousands of which were launched on August 6, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. Each floating lantern carries handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence. The dome is now a memorial to those killed and injured in the bombing.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806412.JPG
  • A boy carries a floating candle lantern on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched into a river on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806340.JPG
  • A girl carries a floating candle lantern to the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806326.JPG
  • A woman sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence. In the background are the ruins of a building damaged by the bomb and now converted into a peace memorial.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806287.JPG
  • A woman sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence. In the background are the ruins of a building damaged by the bomb and now converted into a peace memorial.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806283.JPG
  • A girl sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence. In the background are the ruins of a building damaged by the bomb and now converted into a peace memorial.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806279.JPG
  • A woman sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence. In the background are the ruins of a building damaged by the bomb and now converted into a peace memorial.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806265.JPG
  • A child sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806249.JPG
  • A girl sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806236.JPG
  • A girl prays after setting a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima_M29.JPG
  • Sister Yeni Arini Hulu, SCMM, a Sister of Charity, holds a candle during a procession before a rosary mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. <br />
<br />
Note: Her order is Suster Cintakasih dari Maria Bunda Yang Berbelaskasih
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-life-56.jpg
  • Sister Yeni Arini Hulu, SCMM, a Sister of Charity, holds a candle during a procession before a rosary mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. <br />
<br />
Note: Her order is Suster Cintakasih dari Maria Bunda Yang Berbelaskasih
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-life-52.jpg
  • A boy holds a small boat he crafted to carry a candle onto the sea that rose up and ravaged his small village on Jinamoc Island in the southern Philippines one year earlier. Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, killed 55 people on the small island.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-356.jpg
  • Ana Laura Cabrera Hernandez holds a candle for a boy to blow out during a session of the early intervention program of Piña Palmera, a center for community based rehabilitation for people living with disabilities in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico. Cabrera is a trainer at the center.
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  • A girl acolyte prays as she holds a candle during Catholic Mass in St Ignatius, Guyana.
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  • A girl acolyte prays as she holds a candle during Catholic Mass in St Ignatius, Guyana.
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  • A girl carries a candle in a procession at the beginning of an interfaith service in Nagasaki, Japan, to commemorate those who died as the result of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945. Participants in the service, which took place at the hypocenter of the blast, included a team of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who came to Japan to see for themselves the results of the bombings 70 years ago, to listen to survivors and local church leaders, and to recommit themselves to new forms of advocacy for a world free of nuclear weapons.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_nagasaki_M05.JPG
  • Floating candle lanterns fill a river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan, in front of the city's atomic bomb dome. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806431.JPG
  • People carry floating candle lanterns to the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806375.JPG
  • A girl carries a floating candle lantern to the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806401.JPG
  • Floating candle lanterns fill a river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806292.JPG
  • Floating candle lanterns fill a river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carry handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806295.JPG
  • A woman sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806275.JPG
  • A boy sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima806218.JPG
  • A woman sets a floating candle lantern on the river on August 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan. The lanterns, thousands of which were launched on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, carried handmade messages and drawings, conveying each person's prayers for peace and comfort for the victims of the violence. In the background are the ruins of a building damaged by the bomb and now converted into a peace memorial.
    japan_2015_jeffrey_hiroshima_M30.JPG
  • 30 October 2016, Lund, Sweden: Candles lit before ecumenical Sunday mass in Lund Cathedral, where a procession of children from the Catholic parish of Saint Thomas joined, in anticipation of the Lutheran-Catholic reformation commemoration with the Lutheran World Federation and Pope Francis on 31 October. At the mass, greetings were given by LWF President Bishop Munib Younan, who said, "Jerusalem, where the holy spirit founded the church, needs you. Jerusalem needs your prayers, your support, to make sure Christians do not all leave the Holy Land, but stay, seeking justice. The joint commemoration, and the document from Conflict to Communion calls, Lutherans and Catholics, to witness together."
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  • 30 October 2016, Lund, Sweden: Candles lit before ecumenical Sunday mass in Lund Cathedral, where a procession of children from the Catholic parish of Saint Thomas joined, in anticipation of the Lutheran-Catholic reformation commemoration with the Lutheran World Federation and Pope Francis on 31 October. At the mass, greetings were given by LWF President Bishop Munib Younan, who said, "Jerusalem, where the holy spirit founded the church, needs you. Jerusalem needs your prayers, your support, to make sure Christians do not all leave the Holy Land, but stay, seeking justice. The joint commemoration, and the document from Conflict to Communion calls, Lutherans and Catholics, to witness together."
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  • 29 October 2016, Lund, Sweden: Dress rehearsal in Lund Cathedral, before Pope Francis' visit and the joint Catholic-Lutheran reformation commemoration on 31 October 2016. Children form a central part in the service, as they are involved in singing hymns and ecumenical songs, as well as lighting candles symbolising the five joint commitments undertaken by the Lutheran and Catholic churches on the occasion of the joint reformation commemoration.
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  • 17 December 2016, Cairo, Egypt: Candles are lit by the entrance to the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary, Elsourian.
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Congregant pray with candles in hand during Holy Saturday service at Saint James' Church in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem.
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Congregant pray with candles in hand during Holy Saturday service at Saint James' Church in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem.
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Congregant pray with candles in hand during Holy Saturday service at Saint James' Church in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem.
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  • 18 April 2019, Jerusalem: People light candles as on Maundy Thursday (Western tradition), the Church of Gethsemane filled to the brim with Christians from Jerusalem and all over the world participating in the Easter celebrations, who then lit candles, marching through the valley below, and up the hillside to share a moment of prayer.
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  • 29 August 2020, Ljusdal, Sweden: People in the village of Karsjö in the county of Hälsingland mark an ’Evening of light’ as summer is coming to an end. The relatively new tradition has been marked annually in the county for some 30 years, as a way of expressing gratitude and of bidding farewell to summer by lighting candles along lakes and riversides, to light up the darkness that comes with autumn and winter. People in the village of Karsjö, located in the parish of Järvsö, Ljusdal municipality, and home to some 100 permanent residents, mark the occasion by the side of the river Ljusnan, where the village is located.
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  • 29 August 2020, Ljusdal, Sweden: People in the village of Karsjö in the county of Hälsingland mark an ’Evening of light’ as summer is coming to an end. The relatively new tradition has been marked annually in the county for some 30 years, as a way of expressing gratitude and of bidding farewell to summer by lighting candles along lakes and riversides, to light up the darkness that comes with autumn and winter. People in the village of Karsjö, located in the parish of Järvsö, Ljusdal municipality, and home to some 100 permanent residents, mark the occasion by the side of the river Ljusnan, where the village is located.
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  • 29 August 2020, Ljusdal, Sweden: People in the village of Karsjö in the county of Hälsingland mark an ’Evening of light’ as summer is coming to an end. The relatively new tradition has been marked annually in the county for some 30 years, as a way of expressing gratitude and of bidding farewell to summer by lighting candles along lakes and riversides, to light up the darkness that comes with autumn and winter. People in the village of Karsjö, located in the parish of Järvsö, Ljusdal municipality, and home to some 100 permanent residents, mark the occasion by the side of the river Ljusnan, where the village is located.
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  • 29 August 2020, Ljusdal, Sweden: People in the village of Karsjö in the county of Hälsingland mark an ’Evening of light’ as summer is coming to an end. The relatively new tradition has been marked annually in the county for some 30 years, as a way of expressing gratitude and of bidding farewell to summer by lighting candles along lakes and riversides, to light up the darkness that comes with autumn and winter. People in the village of Karsjö, located in the parish of Järvsö, Ljusdal municipality, and home to some 100 permanent residents, mark the occasion by the side of the river Ljusnan, where the village is located.
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  • 29 August 2020, Ljusdal, Sweden: People in the village of Karsjö in the county of Hälsingland mark an ’Evening of light’ as summer is coming to an end. The relatively new tradition has been marked annually in the county for some 30 years, as a way of expressing gratitude and of bidding farewell to summer by lighting candles along lakes and riversides, to light up the darkness that comes with autumn and winter. People in the village of Karsjö, located in the parish of Järvsö, Ljusdal municipality, and home to some 100 permanent residents, mark the occasion by the side of the river Ljusnan, where the village is located.
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  • 29 August 2020, Ljusdal, Sweden: People in the village of Karsjö in the county of Hälsingland mark an ’Evening of light’ as summer is coming to an end. The relatively new tradition has been marked annually in the county for some 30 years, as a way of expressing gratitude and of bidding farewell to summer by lighting candles along lakes and riversides, to light up the darkness that comes with autumn and winter. People in the village of Karsjö, located in the parish of Järvsö, Ljusdal municipality, and home to some 100 permanent residents, mark the occasion by the side of the river Ljusnan, where the village is located.
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  • 29 August 2020, Ljusdal, Sweden: People in the village of Karsjö in the county of Hälsingland mark an ’Evening of light’ as summer is coming to an end. The relatively new tradition has been marked annually in the county for some 30 years, as a way of expressing gratitude and of bidding farewell to summer by lighting candles along lakes and riversides, to light up the darkness that comes with autumn and winter. People in the village of Karsjö, located in the parish of Järvsö, Ljusdal municipality, and home to some 100 permanent residents, mark the occasion by the side of the river Ljusnan, where the village is located.
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  • 3 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Candles lit in anticipation of Sunday service in the Eastern Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Holy Great Martyr George. On 31 May - 6 June 2018, in Novi Sad, Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church stood as one of the host churches of the Conference of European Churches General Assembly. More than 400 delegates, advisors, stewards, youth, staff, and distinguished guests took part in the Assembly and related events, gathered under the theme, “You shall be my witnesses".
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  • Participants light candles during a July 19 interfaith prayer service, held at the Roman Catholic Emmanuel Cathedral in Durban, South Africa, during the 2016 International AIDS Conference.
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  • Participants light candles during a July 19 interfaith prayer service, held at the Roman Catholic Emmanuel Cathedral in Durban, South Africa, during the 2016 International AIDS Conference.
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  • On the eve of the first day of COP20, the UN climate talks in Lima, a Vigil for the Climate was held near the Pentagonito where the UN talks are to be held. Christiana Figueres, the head of the UNFCCC and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal the Peruvian Minister for the Environment and President of the UN meeting, spoke to the crowd and a symbolic lighting of candles began the celebration that marks the end of one year of monthly fasting by religious and environmental groups around the world in the Fast for the Climate.
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  • On the eve of the first day of COP20, the UN climate talks in Lima, a Vigil for the Climate was held near the Pentagonito where the UN talks are to be held. Christiana Figueres, the head of the UNFCCC and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal the Peruvian Minister for the Environment and President of the UN meeting, spoke to the crowd and a symbolic lighting of candles began the celebration that marks the end of one year of monthly fasting by religious and environmental groups around the world in the Fast for the Climate.
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  • On the eve of the first day of COP20, the UN climate talks in Lima, a Vigil for the Climate was held near the Pentagonito where the UN talks are to be held. Christiana Figueres, the head of the UNFCCC and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal the Peruvian Minister for the Environment and President of the UN meeting, spoke to the crowd and a symbolic lighting of candles began the celebration that marks the end of one year of monthly fasting by religious and environmental groups around the world in the Fast for the Climate.
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  • Alan Burns speaks to the crowd on the eve of the first day of COP20, the UN climate talks in Lima, a Vigil for the Climate was held near the Pentagonito where the UN talks are to be held. Christiana Figueres, the head of the UNFCCC and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal the Peruvian Minister for the Environment and President of the UN meeting, spoke to the crowd and a symbolic lighting of candles began the celebration that marks the end of one year of monthly fasting by religious and environmental groups around the world in the Fast for the Climate.
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  • 18 April 2019, Jerusalem: A group of pilgrims share a moment of prayer, as on Maundy Thursday (Western tradition), the Church of Gethsemane filled to the brim with Christians from Jerusalem and all over the world participating in the Easter celebrations, who then lit candles, marching through the valley below, and up the hillside to share a moment of prayer.
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  • 18 April 2019, Jerusalem: On Maundy Thursday (Western tradition), the Church of Gethsemane filled to the brim with Christians from Jerusalem and all over the world participating in the Easter celebrations, who then lit candles, marching through the valley below, and up the hillside to share a moment of prayer.
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  • 18 April 2019, Jerusalem: On Maundy Thursday (Western tradition), the Church of Gethsemane filled to the brim with Christians from Jerusalem and all over the world participating in the Easter celebrations, who then lit candles, marching through the valley below, and up the hillside to share a moment of prayer.
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  • 18 April 2019, Jerusalem: On Maundy Thursday (Western tradition), the Church of Gethsemane filled to the brim with Christians from Jerusalem and all over the world participating in the Easter celebrations, who then lit candles, marching through the valley below, and up the hillside to share a moment of prayer.
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  • 1 December 2017, Geneva, Switzerland: On World AIDS Day 2017, the World Council of Churches – Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (WCC-EAA) brought together representatives of faith-based organizations as well as public sector and inter-governmental organizations at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 1 December. The event saw a commemorative prayer service, an interactive art exhibition, and a round table discussion on how to improve access to testing and treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV, particularly by means of education. During the morning prayers, participants lit candles of hope, for those who live with HIV today, and in memory of those who have been lost to the disease.
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  • 1 December 2017, Geneva, Switzerland: On World AIDS Day 2017, the World Council of Churches – Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (WCC-EAA) brought together representatives of faith-based organizations as well as public sector and inter-governmental organizations at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 1 December. The event saw a commemorative prayer service, an interactive art exhibition, and a round table discussion on how to improve access to testing and treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV, particularly by means of education. During the morning prayers, participants lit candles of hope, for those who live with HIV today, and in memory of those who have been lost to the disease.
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  • 3 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Candles lit in anticipation of Sunday service in the Eastern Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Holy Great Martyr George. On 31 May - 6 June 2018, in Novi Sad, Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church stood as one of the host churches of the Conference of European Churches General Assembly. More than 400 delegates, advisors, stewards, youth, staff, and distinguished guests took part in the Assembly and related events, gathered under the theme, “You shall be my witnesses".
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  • 16 June 2019, Geneva, Switzerland: Gathered in Saint Peter's Cathedral in central Geneva, five Christian traditions celebrate the 20th anniversary of the historic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. Through a prayer service, leaders of Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Reformed and Anglican global church bodies reaffirm their commitment to unity, joint witness and service. Emma van Dorp, a theology student from the Reformed congregation, lights five symbolic candles on the altar as the church leaders affirm the “wish to make more visible our common witness in worship and service, on our journey together towards visible unity.”
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  • 7 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: A group light candles together, as people of faith gather in a 'Prayer for the Rainforest' as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, where faith-based organizations continue to urge decision-makers to take action for climate justice.
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