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  • Youth clap their hands and sing in a Sunday School class in the Heal Africa Church in Goma, the war-torn city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • Children clap as they sing during class in a day care center in Monrovia, Liberia, sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Children clap as they sing during class in a day care center in Monrovia, Liberia, sponsored by United Methodist Women.
    liberia-2013-jeffrey-daycare-38.jpg
  • Children clap as they sing during class in a day care center in Monrovia, Liberia, sponsored by United Methodist Women.
    liberia-2013-jeffrey-daycare-37.jpg
  • Children clap during class in a day care center in Monrovia, Liberia, sponsored by United Methodist Women.
    liberia-2013-jeffrey-daycare-14.jpg
  • Brother Sylvanus-Aniebiet Victor Okon, a Marist brother from Nigeria, claps his hands and sings during assembly in the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A734.jpg
  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: Women in session at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
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  • 2 October 2016, Bossey, Switzerland: Interfaith prayer service, as the Bossey Ecumenical Institute marks 70 years of ecumenical formation since the World Council of Churches started the institute in 1946.
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  • Women dance in a circle, near Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India
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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170409_AHP_591...jpg
  • Rose Mary Meling, who is studying to be a teacher, sings during an assembly in the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A732.jpg
  • Rose Mary Meling, who is studying to be a teacher, sings during an assembly in the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A740.jpg
  • A woman sings during a worship gathering of the Presbyterian Church in Akobo, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0479.jpg
  • Jacob Enosa, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, sings with his students in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-52.jpg
  • Students sing a song in a Catholic school in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Encouraging them is their teacher, Regina John Thabo, who is studying to be a better teacher in a program sponsored by Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-54.jpg
  • Girls sing in class in the Loreto Girls Secondary School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J290.jpg
  • Sister Anahid, a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, sings with students in a primary school she supervises in Dohuk, Iraq. Most of the students were displaced from their home villages when the Islamic State group took over portions of the Nineveh Plains in 2014. Because they came from communities with Arabic curriculum schools, they often don't fit well in schools in the villages where they resettled, because those schools teach in Kurdish or Assyrian. So the religious order started the school, which has students from several faiths, including Islam and Christianity. The Christian Aid Program Nohadra - Iraq (CAPNI) provides transportation for many students to Dohuk from the rural villages where their families have taken refuge.
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  • Displaced children applaud outside their familiy's "caravan," a manufactured housing unit offered to some displaced families in the village of Bakhtme, Iraq. The community was flooded with displaced families when the Islamic State group took over nearby portions of the Nineveh Plains in 2014. The community includes a "child-friendly space" sponsored by the Christian Aid Program Nohadra - Iraq (CAPNI), offering displaced children and children from the host community an opportunity to play and learn.
    iraq-2017-jeffrey-capni-464.jpg
  • Young people celebrated with music and dance as they waited for Pope Francis in Manila.<br />
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Shortly after Typhoon Haiyan in 2015, Pope Francis visited the Philippines. Millions of people waited hours to see him pass by. Pope Francis prepared an encyclical on the environment and the climate crisis, and during his visit he showed solidarity with victims of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, and related the increase in extreme weather events to climate change.
    Philippines_Hawkey_20150116_083.jpg
  • Kuol Thou Majok participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Rose Mary Meling, who is studying to be a teacher, sings during an assembly in the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Women sing enthusiastically during a worship gathering of the Presbyterian Church in Akobo, South Sudan.
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  • Women sing enthusiastically during a worship gathering of the Presbyterian Church in Akobo, South Sudan. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Father Mike Bassano (right), a Maryknoll priest from the United States, leads diocesan pastoral coordinators from throughout South Sudan in a song during a meeting in Juba coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country.
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  • Father Mike Bassano (left), a Maryknoll priest from the United States, leads diocesan pastoral coordinators from throughout South Sudan in a song during a meeting in Juba coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-misc-111.jpg
  • Students sing a song in a Catholic school in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Encouraging them is their teacher, Regina John Thabo (left, standing), who is studying to be a better teacher in a program sponsored by Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Irish Sister Elizabeth Ryan, FCJ (right), supervises Thabo's progress. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-57.jpg
  • Students sing a song in a Catholic school in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Encouraging them is their teacher, Regina John Thabo, who is studying to be a better teacher in a program sponsored by Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-55.jpg
  • Girls sing in class in the Loreto Girls Secondary School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J335.jpg
  • Girls sing in class in the Loreto Girls Secondary School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J304.jpg
  • Girls sing in class in the Loreto Girls Secondary School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J331.jpg
  • Girls sing in class in the Loreto Girls Secondary School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J285.jpg
  • Basamat Alnoor Jakolo Aldabi sings with students in her school classroom in the Kaya Refugee Camp in Maban County, South Sudan. The camp shelters thousands of refugees, including this teacher, from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and Jesuit Refugee Service, with support from Misean Cara, provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
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  • A deaconess studying at Harris Memorial College works with children in a poor neighborhood of Manila.
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  • Christian Love Daroy-Gagno, the program director of the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI), sings with children in a KKFI-sponsored preschool in Pulilan, a village in Bulacan, Philippines.<br />
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KKFI is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Children gather for an educational activity sponsored by the local Methodist church in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • Olina Lina participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kit-A02.JPG
  • Children sing and pray during a nighttime prayer vigil for peace in Nakubuse, a small village near Kuron in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-N10.JPG
  • A woman sings during a worship gathering of the Presbyterian Church in Akobo, South Sudan. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0479.jpg
  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170409_AHP_600...jpg
  • Father Mike Bassano (right), a Maryknoll priest from the United States, leads diocesan pastoral coordinators from throughout South Sudan in a song during a meeting in Juba coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-misc-113.jpg
  • Father Mike Bassano (right), a Maryknoll priest from the United States, leads diocesan pastoral coordinators from throughout South Sudan in a song during a meeting in Juba coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-misc-112.jpg
  • Students sing a song in a Catholic school in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Encouraging them is their teacher, Regina John Thabo (center), who is studying to be a better teacher in a program sponsored by Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Irish Sister Elizabeth Ryan, FCJ (right), supervises Thabo's progress. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-56.jpg
  • Harriett Olson (in red sweater), the chief executive officer of United Methodist Women, sings and dances with a group of children and their parents in the Manila North Cemetery in Manila, Philippines, on January 16, 2018. Olson was in the Philippines to meet with women from throughout the region. United Methodist Women has long supported educational and other work in the cemetery carried out by the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI).
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-umw269.JPG
  • Young people celebrated with singing and dance as they waited for Pope Francis in Manila.<br />
<br />
Shortly after Typhoon Haiyan in 2015, Pope Francis visited the Philippines. Millions of people waited hours to see him pass by. Pope Francis prepared an encyclical on the environment and the climate crisis, and during his visit he showed solidarity with victims of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, and related the increase in extreme weather events to climate change.
    Philippines_Hawkey_20150116_118.jpg
  • Young people celebrated with singing and dance as they waited for Pope Francis in Manila.<br />
<br />
Shortly after Typhoon Haiyan in 2015, Pope Francis visited the Philippines. Millions of people waited hours to see him pass by. Pope Francis prepared an encyclical on the environment and the climate crisis, and during his visit he showed solidarity with victims of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, and related the increase in extreme weather events to climate change.
    Philippines_Hawkey_20150116_113.jpg
  • Girls sing in class in the Loreto Girls Secondary School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J316.jpg
  • Children sing in the Hassahissa camp for internally displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan. The camp is near Zalingei. The ACT-Caritas emergency program provides school materials like pencils and notebooks to children in the school, as well as blackboards and benches to the school.
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  • 17 February 2020, Zarqa, Jordan: A girl claps her hands in 'the nanny room' at the Lutheran World Federation community centre in Zarqa. Through a variety of activities, the Lutheran World Federation community centre in Zarqa serves to offer psychosocial support and strengthen social cohesion between Syrian, Iraqi and other refugees in Jordan and their host communities.
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  • 17 February 2020, Zarqa, Jordan: A boy claps his hands in 'the nanny room' at the Lutheran World Federation community centre in Zarqa. Through a variety of activities, the Lutheran World Federation community centre in Zarqa serves to offer psychosocial support and strengthen social cohesion between Syrian, Iraqi and other refugees in Jordan and their host communities.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200217_AH2_343...jpg
  • 29 January 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: His Holiness Most Rev. Dr Rufus Okikiola Ositelu, primate of The Church of the Lord (Prayer Fellowship) Worldwide visits the World Council of Churches from 28-30 January in Geneva. Here, morning prayers in the Ecumenical Centre Chapel.
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  • 17 February 2020, Zarqa, Jordan: Music class at the Lutheran World Federation community centre in Zarqa. Through a variety of activities, the Lutheran World Federation community centre in Zarqa serves to offer psychosocial support and strengthen social cohesion between Syrian, Iraqi and other refugees in Jordan and their host communities.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200217_AH1_182...jpg
  • Sister Germaine Muaka sings during a July 17 session of a Catholic conference on HIV and AIDS held before the International AIDS Conference in in Durban, South Africa. Muaka is a member of the Sisters of St Vincent de Paul Servants of the Poor, and works in the Polokwane Diocese.
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  • Sister Germaine Muaka sings during a July 17 session of a Catholic conference on HIV and AIDS held before the International AIDS Conference in in Durban, South Africa. Muaka is a member of the Sisters of St Vincent de Paul Servants of the Poor, and works in the Polokwane Diocese.
    south-africa-2016-jeffrey-wcc-eaa-ia...jpg
  • Members of "Daughters of the King," a girls' organization that carries out public education about HIV and AIDS, marches through the market in Kakata, Liberia, singing and chanting about the disease and how to prevent it. The group  is sponsored by the HIV/AIDS Program of the Lutheran Church in Liberia.
    liberia-2013-jeffrey-HIV-22.jpg
  • Members of "Daughters of the King," a girls' organization that carries out public education about HIV and AIDS, marches through the market in Kakata, Liberia, singing and chanting about the disease and how to prevent it. The group  is sponsored by the HIV/AIDS Program of the Lutheran Church in Liberia.
    liberia-2013-jeffrey-HIV-20.jpg
  • Carolyn Rubavathy from Madurai Lady Doak College in India sings enthusiastically during the October 13, 2017, session of the Asia Mission Conference in Yangon, Myanmar.
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  • Students clap as they sing at the beginning of the day in a primary school in Bunj, South Sudan, sponsored by Jesuit Relief Service. The community is host to more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan. JRS, with support from Misean Cara, provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E062.JPG
  • Clapping her hands, Yvette Richards, the national president of United Methodist Women, leads members of Summer of Sisterhood, a musical group from the Westside Community House in Cleveland, Ohio, off the stage where they performed at the United Methodist Women's Assembly during an April 26, 2014 worship service in Louisville, Kentucky.
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  • As members of a cultural orientation class for newly arrived refugees walked together on a street in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the woman on the left came out of her home and crossed the street, clapping her hands and repeating, "Welcome to America!" <br />
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The class was sponsored by Church World Service. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • As members of a cultural orientation class for newly arrived refugees walked together on a street in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a woman came out of her home and crossed the street, clapping her hands and repeating, "Welcome to America!" The group then posed with her for a photo.<br />
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The class was sponsored by Church World Service. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
    usa-2017-jeffrey-refugees-lancaster-...JPG