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  • When the power went out, participants turned on their mobile phones to illuminate the room as members of an international ecumenical delegation listen to displaced Christian young people in Ankawa on January 23, 2017, during the group's visit to northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. The delegation was sponsored by the World Council of Churches. The meeting took place in the Mar Shmoni Syriac Catholic Church.
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  • Members of an international ecumenical delegation listen to displaced Christian young people in Ankawa on January 23, 2017, during the group's visit to northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. The delegation was sponsored by the World Council of Churches. The meeting took place in the Mar Shmoni Syriac Catholic Church.
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  • Several members of an ecumenical delegation to Iraq pose on January 22, 2017, in Baghdad. The delegation was organized by the World Council of Churches.
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  • A delegation from the World Council of Churches listens to Bruno Geddo, representative in Iraq of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Geddo met with the group at UN headquarters in Baghdad on January 22, 2017.
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  • Syriac Catholic Archbishop Mor Severios Jamil Hawa of Baghdad & Basra speaks to an ecumenical delegation during a visit to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017.  The delegation was sponsored by the World Council of Churches.
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  • Carla Khijo, a program executive of the World Council of Churches, speaks during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to church leaders in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017.
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  • Peter Prove (left), director for international affairs of the World Council of Churches, delivers a copy of a WCC report on religious minorities in Syria and Iraq to Jan Kubis, the special representative of the secretary general and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq. Kubis participated in a briefing with Prove and other memmbers of a WCC delegation at UN headquarters in Baghdad on January 20, 2017.
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  • Koko Kondo (left), a survivor of the 1945 atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, talks on April 7, 2015, to a delegation of church leaders from around the world who have come to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb, to listen to the survivors and to local church leaders, and to return home recommitted to advocating for an end to nuclear weapons. The delegation of pilgrims was organized by the World Council of Churches. Kondo is a well-known hibakusha, or atom bomb survivor, who along with her father is mentioned in John Hershey's landmark book about the horror of Hiroshima.
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  • Koko Kondo, a survivor of the 1945 atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, talks on August 7, 2015, to a delegation of church leaders from around the world who have come to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb, to listen to the survivors and to local church leaders, and to return home recommitted to advocating for an end to nuclear weapons. The delegation of pilgrims was organized by the World Council of Churches. Kondo is a well-known hibakusha, or atom bomb survivor, who along with her father is mentioned in John Hershey's landmark book about the horror of Hiroshima.
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  • Koko Kondo, a survivor of the 1945 atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, laughs on August 7, 2015, as she talks with a delegation of church leaders from around the world who have come to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb, to listen to the survivors and to local church leaders, and to return home recommitted to advocating for an end to nuclear weapons. The delegation of pilgrims was organized by the World Council of Churches. Kondo is a well-known hibakusha, or atom bomb survivor, who along with her father is mentioned in John Hershey's landmark book about the horror of Hiroshima.
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  • Archbishop Antje Jackelen of the Church of Sweden leads displaced Christians in prayer during an encounter with an ecumenical delegation on January 23, 2017. The delegation, sponsored by the World Council of Churches, met with displaced persons in Ankawa, in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region.
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  • Lubna Yusef, a Christian woman displaced from Qaraqosh in 2014 by the Islamic State group, shares her story with members of an ecumenical delegation on January 23, 2017, during the group's visit to displaced settlements in Ankawa, in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. The delegation was sponsored by the World Council of Churches.
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  • An international ecumenical delegation organized by the World Council of Churches poses with Iraqi church leaders following a discussion on January 23, 2017, in Erbil, in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region..
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  • Members of an international ecumenical delegation sponsored by the World Council of Churches poses with Falah Mustafa, the head of foreign relations for the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, following a visit to Mustafa's office in Erbil on January 23, 2017.
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  • Members of an international ecumenical delegation pose with Iraqi church leaders following a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017.
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  • Bishop Martin Hermann Hein, Protestant bishop of Kurhessen Waldeck, Germany, speaks during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to church leaders in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017.
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  • Clare Amos, a program executive for the World Council of Churches, greets Iraqi church leaders during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Baghdad on January 21, 2017. On the left is Syriac Catholic Archbishop Mor Severios Jamil Hawa of Baghdad & Basra, and behind him is the Chaldean Catholic Bishop Mikha Pola Maqdassi of the Eparchy of Alqosh.
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  • Peter Prove (left), director for international affairs of the World Council of Churches, greets Patriarch Louis Rafael Sako, president of the synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Sako's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • Koko Kondo, a survivor of the 1945 atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, talks on August 7, 2015, to a delegation of church leaders from around the world who have come to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb, to listen to the survivors and to local church leaders, and to return home recommitted to advocating for an end to nuclear weapons. The delegation of pilgrims was organized by the World Council of Churches. Kondo is a well-known hibakusha, or atom bomb survivor, who along with her father is mentioned in John Hershey's landmark book about the horror of Hiroshima.
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  • Koko Kondo, a survivor of the 1945 atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, talks on August 7, 2015, to a delegation of church leaders from around the world who have come to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb, to listen to the survivors and to local church leaders, and to return home recommitted to advocating for an end to nuclear weapons. The delegation of pilgrims was organized by the World Council of Churches. Kondo is a well-known hibakusha, or atom bomb survivor, who along with her father is mentioned in John Hershey's landmark book about the horror of Hiroshima.
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  • Bishop András Veres (right), president of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference, welcomes the Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Budapest on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a September 26, 2015, meeting in Budapest with leaders of the Reformed Church of Hungary. Beside him is Dr. Audeh Quawas, a member of the executive committee of the WCC. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the WCC, the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit (left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The conversation was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Dr Audeh Quawas, a member of the executive committee of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the WCC, the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations. Quawas, a former member of the Jordanian Parliament, is also a member of the WCC Central Committee and the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Father Michel Jalakh (left), general secretary of the Middle East Council of Churches, greets Pishtiwan Sadiq, the education minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government of northern Iraq, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Sadiq's office in Erbil on January 24, 2017. Sadiq is also the acting minister of religious affairs.
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  • The Rev. Frank Chikane (left), a South Afican church leader who serves as moderator of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, poses for a photo with a participant in meeting between an international ecumenical delegation and displaced Christian young people in Ankawa on January 23, 2017, during the ecumenical group's visit to northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. The meeting took place in the Mar Shmoni Syriac Catholic Church.
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  • Archbishop Vicken Aykazian of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the United States, greets Iraqi President Fuad Masum on January 22, 2017, during the visit of a high-level ecumenical delegation to Baghdad.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with the president of the Iraqi Sunni Endowment, Dr. Abdul Al-Lateef Al-Hemyem, during the visit of an international ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017. The encounter took place at St Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (center), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, poses with the president of the Iraqi Sunni Endowment, Dr. Abdul Al-Lateef Al-Hemyem (left), and Yusef El-Nasar, a Shia Muslim leader (right) and other religious leaders during the visit of an international ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017. The encounter took place at St Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church.
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  • Tarmeda Nadam Kreadi, a leader of the Sabaean-Mandean religious community in Iraq, participates in a meeting with an international ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017. The encounter took place at St Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church.
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  • Peter Prove (right) director of international affairs for the World Council of Churches, greets Tarmeda Nadam Kreadi, a leader of the Sabaean-Mandean religious community in Iraq, during the visit of an international ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017. The encounter took place at St Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church. Looking on is Ghattas Hazim, the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Baghdad, Kuwait and Dependencies.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, is interviewed by Iraqi television after a meeting with Deputy Interior Minister Aqeel al-Khazali in Baghdad on January 21, 2017. Tveit led an ecumenical delegation during a five-day visit to Iraq.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit (left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Dr. Audeh Quawas, a member of the WCC executive committee, and Doris Peschke, general secretary of the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, during a September 26, 2015, meeting with Reformed Church leaders in Budapest, Hungary. The conversation was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit (left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources, talk with Doris Peschke, general secretary of the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, during a September 26, 2015, meeting in Budapest. The conversation was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (fourth from left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, and other church leaders pose with Bence Retvari (standing beside Tveit), the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources, following a meeting in Budapest on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Bishop István Szabo, ministerial president of the Reformed Church in Hungary, speaks to an ecumenical group of church leaders in Budapest on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Bishop Tamás Fabiny of the Lutheran Church in Hungary (left) greets the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, during a meeting in Budapest on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting with Catholic officials in Budapest, Hungary, on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit (left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The conversation was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Bishop András Veres, president of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference, speaks to an ecumenical group of church leaders in Budapest on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit (left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The conversation was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit (left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The conversation was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Dr Audeh Quawas, a member of the executive committee of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. To the right is the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the WCC, the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations. Quawas, a former member of the Jordanian Parliament, is also a member of the WCC Central Committee and the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.
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  • Dr Audeh Quawas, a member of the executive committee of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the WCC, the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations. Quawas, a former member of the Jordanian Parliament, is also a member of the WCC Central Committee and the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Bishop Tamás Fabiny of the Lutheran Church in Hungary speaks to an ecumenical group of church leaders in Budapest on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Karim Singari, the interior minister of the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, following the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Singari's office in Erbil on January 24, 2017.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Karim Singari, the interior minister of the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, following the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Singari's office in Erbil on January 23, 2017.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, poses with Pishtiwan Sadiq, the education minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government of northern Iraq, at the conclusion of a visit by an ecumenical delegation to Sadiq's office in Erbil on January 24, 2017. Sadiq is also the acting minister of religious affairs.
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  • Bishop Martin Hermann Hein (left), Protestant bishop of Kurhessen Waldeck, Germany, greets Karim Singari, the interior minister of the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Singari's office in Erbil on January 23, 2017.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, greets Pishtiwan Sadiq, the education minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government of northern Iraq, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Sadiq's office in Erbil on January 24, 2017. Sadiq is also the acting minister of religious affairs.
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  • Lubna Yusef, a Christian woman displaced from Qaraqosh in 2014 by the Islamic State group, is hugged by the Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, after she told her story to members of an ecumenical delegation on January 23, 2017, during the group's visit to displaced settlements in Ankawa, in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Sinan Chalabi, the justice minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, following the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Chalabi's office in Erbil on January 23, 2017.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, presents Falah Mustafa, the head of foreign relations for the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, a WCC report on the status of religious minorities in Iraq and Syria, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Mustafa's office in Erbil on January 23, 2017. Tveit also presented Mustafa with a wooden cross.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Falah Mustafa, the head of foreign relations for the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Mustafa's office in Erbil on January 23, 2017.
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  • Archbishop Antje Jackelen of the Church of Sweden (right) greets Azra Said and her baby Jaynar in the Ashti camp for displaced persons in Ankawa, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Said and her family, who are Christians, were displaced from their home in Qaraqosh in 2014 by the Islamic State group. Jackelen came to Iraq as part of an international ecumenical delegation organized by the World Council of Churches.
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  • Archbishop Antje Jackelen of the Church of Sweden (left) talks with Azra Said and her baby Jaynar in the Ashti camp for displaced persons in Ankawa, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Said and her family, who are Christians, were displaced from their home in Qaraqosh in 2014 by the Islamic State group. Jackelen came to Iraq as part of an international ecumenical delegation organized by the World Council of Churches.
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  • Archbishop Antje Jackelen of the Church of Sweden (right) greets Azra Said in the Ashti camp for displaced persons in Ankawa, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Said and her family, who are Christians, were displaced from their home in Qaraqosh in 2014 by the Islamic State group. Jackelen came to Iraq as part of an international ecumenical delegation organized by the World Council of Churches.
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  • Patriarch Louis Rafael Sako (left), president of the synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church, talks with Father Michel Jalakh, general secretary of the Middle East Council of Churches, on January 22, 2017, during the visit of a high-level ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq.
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  • Peter Prove (left), director of international affairs for the World Council of Churches, greets Iraqi President Fuad Masum on January 22, 2017, during the visit of a high-level ecumenical delegation to Baghdad.
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  • Father Michel Jalakh (left), general secretary of the Middle East Council of Churches,  greets Iraqi President Fuad Masum on January 22, 2017, during the visit of a high-level ecumenical delegation to Baghdad.
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  • The Rev. Frank Chikane (left) of South Africa greets Iraqi President Fuad Masum on January 22, 2017, during the visit of a high-level ecumenical delegation to Baghdad.
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  • Bishop Martin Hermann Hein (left) of the Evangelical Church in Germany greets Iraqi President Fuad Masum on January 22, 2017, during the visit of a high-level ecumenical delegation to Baghdad.
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  • During the visit of an ecumenical delegation from the World Council of Churches, religious leaders in Iraq gathered on January 21, 2017, to discuss issues of common concern in a Baghdad Church. Participants included  Yusef El-Nasar (left), a Shia Muslim leader, Armenian Archbishop Avak Asadourian, and Abdul Gader Al-Alewey of the Al-Rebat Al-Mohamadi Scholars Council.
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  • Peter Prove (left) director of international affairs for the World Council of Churches, receives a memento from Yusef El-Nasar, a Shia Muslim leader, during the visit of an international ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017. The encounter took place at St Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church. The memento shows images of Muslim troops helping place crosses on Christian churches following the defeat of the Islamic State group in Iraq.
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  • The Rev. Frank Chikane (left), moderator of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, receives a memento from Yusef El-Nasar, a Shia Muslim leader, during the visit of an international ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017. The encounter took place at St Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church. The memento shows images of Muslim troops helping place crosses on Christian churches following the defeat of the Islamic State group in Iraq.
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  • Anglican Bishop Christopher John Cocksworth, lord bishop of Coventry, England, greets Yusef El-Nasar, a Shia Muslim leader, during the visit of an international ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017. The encounter took place at St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church.
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  • Peter Prove (right) director of international affairs for the World Council of Churches, greets Yusef El-Nasar, a Shia Muslim leader, during the visit of an international ecumenical delegation to Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017. The encounter took place at St Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church.
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  • Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Aqeel al-Khazali (left) greets Anglican Bishop John Christopher Cocksworth of Coventry, England, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to al-Khazali's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Aqeel al-Khazali (left) greets Bishop Martin Hermann Hein of the Evangelical Church in Germany during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to al-Khazali's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Aqeel al-Khazali (left) greets Archbishop Vicken Aykazian of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the United States, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to al-Khazali's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Aqeel al-Khazali (left) greets Peter Prove, director for international affairs of the World Council of Churches, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to al-Khazali's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Aqeel al-Khazali (left) greets Clare Amos, a program executive for the World COuncil of Churches, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to al-Khazali's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Aqeel al-Khazali (left) greets Anglican Bishop John Christopher Cocksworth of Coventry, England, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to al-Khazali's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Aqeel al-Khazali (left) greets Carla Khijoyan, a program officer for the World Council of Churches, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to al-Khazali's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Patriarch Louis Rafael Sako, president of the synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Sako's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, poses with Patriarch Louis Rafael Sako, president of the synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church, along with other members of an ecumenical delegation who visited the Catholic leader in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 21, 2017.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Patriarch Louis Rafael Sako, president of the synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Sako's office in Baghdad on January 21, 2017.
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  • Kim Myosu, a Korean-Japanese dancer, performs during a ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 2015, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the killing of Korean forced laborers when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. The Koreans had been brought to Japan to work as slaves during the war. The church in Japan has played a key role in addressing Japan's complicity in violence and murder during the war years. The ceremony included the participation of a delegation of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who each 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.
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  • Kim Myosu, a Korean-Japanese dancer, performs during a ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 2015, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the killing of Korean forced laborers when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. The Koreans had been brought to Japan to work as slaves during the war. The church in Japan has played a key role in addressing Japan's complicity in violence and murder during the war years. The ceremony included the participation of a delegation of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who each 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.
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  • Kim Myosu, a Korean-Japanese dancer, performs during a ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 2015, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the killing of Korean forced laborers when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. The Koreans had been brought to Japan to work as slaves during the war. The church in Japan has played a key role in addressing Japan's complicity in violence and murder during the war years. The ceremony included the participation of a delegation of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who each 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.
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  • Kim Myosu, a Korean-Japanese dancer, points to horror coming from the sky as she performs during a ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 2015, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the killing of Korean forced laborers when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. The Koreans had been brought to Japan to work as slaves during the war. The church in Japan has played a key role in addressing Japan's complicity in violence and murder during the war years. The ceremony included the participation of a delegation of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who each 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.
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  • Kim Myosu, a Korean-Japanese dancer, looks with fear to the sky as she performs during a ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 2015, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the killing of Korean forced laborers when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. The Koreans had been brought to Japan to work as slaves during the war. The church in Japan has played a key role in addressing Japan's complicity in violence and murder during the war years. The ceremony included the participation of a delegation of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who each 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.
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  • Kim Myosu, a Korean-Japanese dancer, performs during a ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 2015, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the killing of Korean forced laborers when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. The Koreans had been brought to Japan to work as slaves during the war. The church in Japan has played a key role in addressing Japan's complicity in violence and murder during the war years. The ceremony included the participation of a delegation of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who each 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.
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  • Kim Myosu, a Korean-Japanese dancer, performs during a ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 2015, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the killing of Korean forced laborers when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. The Koreans had been brought to Japan to work as slaves during the war. The church in Japan has played a key role in addressing Japan's complicity in violence and murder during the war years. The ceremony included the participation of a delegation of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches who each 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.
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  • The Rev. Dr Chang Sang,  a member of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea and World Council of Churches Asia president, speaks on August 6, 2015, to a symposium on nuclear disarmament in Hiroshima, Japan. Chang and other members of a delegation from the World Council of Churches came to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb that devastated the city 70 years ago.
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  • Among the millions of paper cranes left at the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan, this year, a thousand came from a delegation of pilgrims from the World Council of Churches, and contained several hand-written prayers for peace. The cranes are deposited by Japanese underneath a statue of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who died of leukemia from radiation after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Her unsuccessful bid to fold a thousand cranes and thus save her life was assumed by schoolchildren throughout the country, who every year bring millions of folded paper cranes to the monument. The memorial was visited by a WCC pilgrims on August 7. They came to Japan to see Hiroshima and Nagasaki for themselves, to listen to survivors and local church leaders, and to recommit themselves to new forms of advocacy for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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  • Koko Kondo (left), a survivor of the 1945 atom bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, talks with Bishop Mary Ann Swenson on August 7 in Hiroshima, Japan. Swenson, a United Methodist from the U.S., is vice moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee, and is leading a delegation of church leaders from around the world who have come to see for themselves the suffering caused by the bomb, to listen to the survivors and to local church leaders, and to return home recommitted to advocating for an end to nuclear weapons. Kondo is a well-known hibakusha, or atom bomb survivor, who along with her father is mentioned in John Hershey's landmark book about the horror of Hiroshima.
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  • Several members of a World Council of Churches delegation pose in front of the ruins of a building damaged in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The pilgrims came to Hiroshima in August 2015 for the 70th anniversary of the bombing to listen to survivors and recommit themselves to new forms of advocacy for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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  • Bishop István Szabo (left), ministerial president of the Reformed Church in Hungary, speaks to an ecumenical group of church leaders in Budapest on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Bishop András Veres (second from right), president of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference, meets with an ecumenical group of church leaders in Budapest on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • Doris Peschke, general secretary of the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the CCME, the World Council of Churches, and the Conference of European Churches. The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
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  • The Rev. Frank Chikane (left) greets Karim Singari, the interior minister of the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Singari's office in Erbil on January 23, 2017.  Chikane, from South Africa, is moderator of the World Council of Churches' Commission on International Affairs.
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  • The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (left), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, greets Karim Singari, the interior minister of the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, during the visit of an ecumenical delegation to Singari's office in Erbil on January 23, 2017.
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