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  • Girls from Japan and the United States embrace as they sing during worship in the 2013 Asian American Camp for United Methodist youth in the west of the United States. The camp was held at Camp Sierra in Big Creek, California.
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  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: Two children embrace as they play together after arriving at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine. The Vyšné Nemecké border crossing connects Slovakia with the city of Uzhgorod in Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of refugees have crossed the border to Slovakia in search of refuge and shelter from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. The border crossing at Vyšné Nemecké sees up to some 10,000 refugees cross each day, with faith-based and humanitarian organisations providing immediate support to people as they come into Slovakia. Support onsite includes simple shelter and beds for resting, information services, coordination of onward travel into Slovakia and finding temporary accommodation there, medical and psychosocial support, food, drinks, toys for the children, hygiene items and other necessities. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: People embrace after arrival by train at Nyugati station in Budapest. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • A police officer and a demonstrator embrace during a rare moment of dialogue during November 27, 2012, protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The protestors were upset by Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi's November 22nd decision to assume sweeping new powers. Moments after this photo was taken, the police, under a barrage of rocks from demonstrators, fired tear gas and gave chase to the demonstrators.
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: People embrace after arrival by train at Nyugati station in Budapest. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220307_AH2_72...jpg
  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: Two refugees from Ukraine embrace by the bus stop taking refugees who have arrived at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing from Ukraine, onward into Slovakia. The Vyšné Nemecké border crossing connects Slovakia with the city of Uzhgorod in Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of refugees have crossed the border to Slovakia in search of refuge and shelter from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. The border crossing at Vyšné Nemecké sees up to some 10,000 refugees cross each day, with faith-based and humanitarian organisations providing immediate support to people as they come into Slovakia. Support onsite includes simple shelter and beds for resting, information services, coordination of onward travel into Slovakia and finding temporary accommodation there, medical and psychosocial support, food, drinks, toys for the children, hygiene items and other necessities. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: Two people embrace by the bus stop taking refugees who have arrived at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing from Ukraine, onward into Slovakia. The Vyšné Nemecké border crossing connects Slovakia with the city of Uzhgorod in Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of refugees have crossed the border to Slovakia in search of refuge and shelter from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. The border crossing at Vyšné Nemecké sees up to some 10,000 refugees cross each day, with faith-based and humanitarian organisations providing immediate support to people as they come into Slovakia. Support onsite includes simple shelter and beds for resting, information services, coordination of onward travel into Slovakia and finding temporary accommodation there, medical and psychosocial support, food, drinks, toys for the children, hygiene items and other necessities. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Carey Ballenger (left) and Jeni Falkman Grangaard (right) embrace each other after an Easter Sunday sunrise service at Jabal Allah (God's Mountain) on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, held by the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (English-speaking congregation).
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  • A woman embraces fellow delegate Jeffrey "J.J." Warren of the Upper New York Conference after Warren spoke in favor of full inclusion for LGBTQI persons in the life of The United Methodist Church during the 2019 United Methodist General Conference in St. Louis, receiving an emotional response from delegates and observers. The special conference was called in an attempt to help the denomination deal with its longstanding differences over sexuality. Photo by Paul Jeffrey, UMNS..
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  • A volunteer embraces a sobbing refugee woman who just landed on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 31, 2015, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Local and international volunteers welcomed the arriving refugees with food and medical care and dry clothes before the newcomers proceeded on their way toward western Europe. Their boat to Greece was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums.
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  • A volunteer embraces a shivering refugee child who just landed on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 31, 2015, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Local and international volunteers welcomed the arriving refugees with food and medical care and dry clothes before the newcomers proceeded on their way toward western Europe. Their boat to Greece was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums.
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  • A boy embraces his family's cow in Piedras Preciosas, a village in the western highlands of Guatemala where the Fraternidad de Presbiteriales Mayas works with women and families in the Mam-speaking Maya community, providing education, credit, health care, and empowerment. Many of the women in the community weave and embroider, using credit from the Fraternidad to buy materials they need to produce a product they then sell, utilizing the income to better their family’s quality of living.
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  • Oscar Oliva, a member of a Mexican search and rescue team, cries with joy on January 19, 2010, as he embraces a fellow rescuer after the group pulled 70-year old Ena Zizi from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, exactly one week after the city was reduced to ruins in a matter of seconds. Zizi was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest at Port-au-Prince's Roman Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. Oliva is a firefighter from the Mexican city of Quintana Roo.
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  • Oscar Oliva, a member of a Mexican search and rescue team, cries with joy on January 19 as he embraces a fellow rescuer after the group pulled 70-year old Ena Zizi from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, exactly one week after the city was reduced to ruins in a matter of seconds. Zizi was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest at Port-au-Prince's Roman Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. Oliva is a firefighter from the Mexican city of Quintana Roo.
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  • Six-year old Miriam, a refugee from Afghanistan, holds her stuffed toy duck as she embraces her little brother inside a refugee processing center in the Serbian village of Presevo, not far from the Macedonian border. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants--including many children--have flowed through Serbia in 2015, on their way from Syria, Iraq and other countries to western Europe. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A teacher embraces a tearful girl in the child care program of Wesley Community Centers in Savannah, Georgia.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, says goodbye to people in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan where she spent more than a decade as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food.
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  • Sister Raquel Peralta, a Catholic nun from Paraguay, hugs a girl in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017 as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Peralta is a member of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, and works in South Sudan as part of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working in the newly independent country. Solidarity and Caritas Austria have both supported efforts by the diocese to ensure that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
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  • 17 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Participants carry out a team-building exercise, as Lutheran World Federation staff from multi-purpose cash assistance centres across Poland, established to support incoming refugees to Poland from Ukraine, gather in Bytom, Poland for a full-week training in  'community-based psychosocial support' provided through ACT Church of Sweden. [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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  • Tordar Tommervik (left), a volunteer from Norway, comforts a cold and frightened Afghan refugee boy on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 2, 2015. The boy was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey, provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Tommervik is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
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  • Zoya Hameed (right), a physician from the United Kingdom, hugs Hanin, a frightened Syrian refugee girl, on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hameed is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
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  • 17 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Participants carry out a team-building exercise, as Lutheran World Federation staff from multi-purpose cash assistance centres across Poland, established to support incoming refugees to Poland from Ukraine, gather in Bytom, Poland for a full-week training in  'community-based psychosocial support' provided through ACT Church of Sweden. [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.]
    Poland-2022-Hillert-20221017_AH1_101...jpg
  • 10 May 2022, Agia Napa, Cyprus: H.E. Metropolitan Dr Vasilios of Constantia and Ammochostos of the Church of Cyprus (right) welcomes Prof. Dr. Dimitra Koukoura (left) to the Monastery of Agia Napa for morning prayer. An Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to study, discuss and reflect on the main theme of the WCC 11th Assembly, "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity" from an Orthodox perspective.  <br />
Discussions also center around current global challenges and how the Orthodox agenda at the WCC 11th Assembly can keep dialogue open.
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Presiding Bishop Tamás Fabiny of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary (left) and 20-year-old medical student Emmanuel from Nigeria (right), who recently had to flee Ukraine due to the invasion of the country by Russia. Since arriving in Hungary, Emmanuel has been offered accommodation at the theological institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 6 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: On 6 March, hundreds of people gather for a charity concert organised at the Lutheran church at Deák tér in Budapest, to mobilise support for the work for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary in the past few days — fleeing the atrocities of war, since Russia military forces began its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220306_AH2_68...jpg
  • Zoya Hameed (right), a physician from the United Kingdom, hugs Hanin, a frightened Syrian refugee girl, on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hameed is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030B-079.JPG
  • Zoya Hameed (right), a physician from the United Kingdom, comforts Hanin, a frightened Syrian refugee girl, on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hameed is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
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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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  • Tordar Tommervik (left), a volunteer from Norway, hugs a cold and frightened Afghan refugee boy on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 2, 2015. The boy was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey, provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Tommervik is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1102-387.JPG
  • Zoya Hameed (left), a physician from the United Kingdom, hugs Hanin, a frightened Syrian refugee girl, on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hameed is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030B-085.JPG
  • Zoya Hameed (left), a physician from the United Kingdom, hugs Hanin, a frightened Syrian refugee girl, on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hameed is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030B-083.JPG
  • Zoya Hameed, a physician from the United Kingdom, hugs Hanin (right), a frightened Syrian refugee girl, on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hameed is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030B-080.JPG
  • Zoya Hameed (right), a physician from the United Kingdom, comforts Hanin, a frightened Syrian refugee girl, on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hameed is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030B-078.JPG
  • Hanin, a frightened Syrian refugee girl, gets a hug from a foreign volunteer on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hundreds of volunteers on the island receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030B-075.JPG
  • Zoya Hameed (right), a physician from the United Kingdom, hugs Hanin, a frightened Syrian refugee girl, on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The girl was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Hameed is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030B-072.JPG
  • Lisbeth Svendsen, a volunteer from Norway, hugs a frightened Syrian refugee woman and girl on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The beach behind them is littered with life jackets. The refugees were on a boat that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey, provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums. Svendsen is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
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  • Participants in a march and rally celebrating International Women's Day in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small child in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • At the "House for the Dying", a hospice for AIDS patients and other seriously ill patients run by the Sisters of Charity in Port au Prince, Haiti, Sister Paula, a Spanish nun, supports a patient as she walks.
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  • Six-year old Miriam, a refugee from Afghanistan, holds her stuffed toy duck inside a refugee processing center in the Serbian village of Presevo, not far from the Macedonian border. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants--including many children--have flowed through Serbia in 2015, on their way from Syria, Iraq and other countries to western Europe. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A mother hugs her children on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 31, 2015.  The family, part of a boatful of refugees that arrived from Turkey, were received by local and international volunteers, then proceeded on their way toward western Europe. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, says goodbye to people in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan where she spent more than a decade as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A8...jpg
  • 9 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Telma Taurepang (left), an indigenous woman from Brazil comforts a crying climate activist group Red Rebels (Extinction Rebellion) member Kat Wild (right), a German woman living in the United Kingdom), as a group of red rebels joins indigenous people from the Brazilian rainforest, part of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, in protesting outside the venue of COP26 in Glasgow, under the slogan 'Landback',  demanding that Indigenous communities' voices be heard in the global climate negotiations. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
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  • Twelve-year old Nyamiri Kulang holds one of her family’s goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this girl's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.
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  • Nyalieth Makuei Ngok milks one of her goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this woman's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0321.jpg
  • Eight-year old Country Gatwech holds two of his family's goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River near South Sudan's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this boy's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0317.jpg
  • Eight-year old Country Gatwech holds two of his family's goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River near South Sudan's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this boy's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Nyalieth Makuei Ngok milks one of her goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this woman's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0321.jpg
  • Eight-year old Country Gatwech holds two of his family's goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River near South Sudan's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this boy's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Twelve-year old Nyamiri Kulang holds one of her family’s goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this girl's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0351.jpg
  • Twelve-year old Nyamiri Kulang holds one of her family’s goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this girl's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Delegate Shayla Jordan receives hugs after speaking in support of the One Church Plan during the 2019 United Methodist General Conference in St. Louis. Photo by Paul Jeffrey, UMNS.
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  • Lorena Leticia and her doll in Santa Catarina Masahuat, El Salvador.
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  • Jaruwan Wutti (left), the manager of the AIDS Ministry of the Church of Christ in Thailand, visits with Pranom Kantawong, a woman living with HIV in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
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  • A mother and child at a rally celebrating International Women's Day in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
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  • Participants in a march and rally celebrating International Women's Day in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small child in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small child in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • Martha Onesimo poses with her son Samweli Hassani before sending him off to school in Fela, Tanzania. The 14-year old boy was diagnosed with Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system caused by the Epstein–Barr virus, but was treated successfully with chemotherapy at the Bugando Medical Center in Mwanza.
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  • Maria Hilvano gets a hug from 9-year old Gabriel Ong, a girl with Down Syndrome, in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Both are members of Kaisaka, a mothers' group that assists families which have members with disabilities.
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  • Teresa Diaz (left) hugs Julia Jimenez Miranda during a workshop at an eco-agricultural training center in Comitancillo, Guatemala. The center is sponsored by the Maya Mam Association for Investigation and Development (AMMID).
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  • Two girls walk together during the weekly market in Despagne, an isolated village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • A woman grieves during a January 23 funeral mass for the Roman Catholic archbishop and vicar general of Port-au-Prince, both of whom were killed in the country's earthquake.
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  • A woman grieves during a January 23 funeral mass for the Roman Catholic archbishop and vicar general of Port-au-Prince, both of whom were killed in the country's earthquake.
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  • At the "House for the Dying", a hospice for AIDS patients and other seriously ill patients run by the Sisters of Charity in Port au Prince, Haiti, Sister Paula, a Spanish nun, supports a patient as she walks.
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  • At the "House for the Dying", a hospice for AIDS patients and other seriously ill patients run by the Sisters of Charity in Port au Prince, Haiti, Sister Paula, a Spanish nun, supports a patient as she walks.
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  • At the "House for the Dying", a hospice for AIDS patients and other seriously ill patients run by the Sisters of Charity in Port au Prince, Haiti, Sister Paula, a Spanish nun, supports a patient as she walks.
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  • Rahaf, 9, and Nour Eddin, 5, are Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan. Their family fled the city of Homs as fighting there worsened in 2012. Their home in Syria has since been destroyed by bombing, and their family struggles to survive in Jordan's capital city. They can only afford for three of the family's six children to attend school, so Rahaf and Nour remain home with their mother. The family has received help from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A man with his small son at an agricultural school sponsored by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) in Kaminsamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Participants, some of whom stay at the center for several weeks, learn sustainable agricultural practices, animal traction, and beekeeping.
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  • Two boys in the Mary Morris Orphanage, run by the United Methodist Church in Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • Boys walk along a road in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal.
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  • Children in a camp for internally displaced people outside Kubum. More than 2.2 million IDPs are living in camps like this in the Darfur region.
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  • Sister Anahid, a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, gets a hug from a student 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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  • A woman and her child in the Chamroen neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • Clara Biswas, a United Methodist missionary who works with women and children and youth in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, hugs a girl as she visits the Kien Kleang Orphanage, where the United Methodist Women has supported a number of projects including scholarships, computer classes, English classes, and sports activities. Biswas is from Bangladesh..
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  • Korb Thouen cares for her pig in Thnort Rorleung, a village in the Kampot region of Cambodia.
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  • Aolizatou Maiger, a 44-year old woman from the northern village of Dire, comforts her daughter in a Catholic training center in Niamana, Mali. Several families displaced by the fighting in northern Mali took refuge in the center.
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  • Farhan Othman holds her 9-month old son Mohammed in Messstetten, Germany. Refugees from Syria, they and their family have applied for asylum in Germany and are awaiting word on the government's decision. Meanwhile, they live in a room in a former army barracks in Messstetten.
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  • Milan Pesic and his wife Gordana share a kiss as they pose inside the shipping container that has been converted into their home in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. They and dozens of other Roma families were evicted from Bellville, an urban squatter settlement, in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • A mother hugs her children on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 31, 2015.  The family, part of a boatful of refugees that arrived from Turkey, were received by local and international volunteers (wearing yellow vests), then proceeded on their way toward western Europe. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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  • A girl hugs two younger sisters on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 31, 2015.  The girls had just arrived in a boat full of refugees that departed from from Turkey. They and their parents were received by local and international volunteers, then proceeded on their way toward western Europe. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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  • Lisbeth Sagen Lundin, a volunteer from Norway, hugs a frightened Syrian refugee on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The woman was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Lundin is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
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  • Lisbeth Svendsen, a volunteer from Norway, gets a hug from Nabil Minas as she hugs his wife and daughter on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The Syrian refugees were on a boat that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey, provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums. Svendsen is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.<br />
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When Minas disembarked from the boat, he fell on his face and kissed the ground. A Christian, he crossed himself and covered his face with his hands, weeping with joy.
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  • A refugee mother hugs her child on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015, after they crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey in a small overcrowded boat provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums. They were received in Greece by local and international volunteers, then proceeded on their way toward western Europe.
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  • Consolata Sister Inés Arciniegas visits with Venezuelan refugees who sleep in tents outside the main bus terminal in Boa Vista, Brazil.  Arciniegas is from Colombia.
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  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Left to right: Kamohelo Tiheli, Retselisitsoe Sekoati, Scott Ramoriting, and Khotso Moleli. Staff from the Blue Cross Rehabilitation Centre for patients suffering from alcohol or drug abuse, visit the mountain of Thaba Bosiu ('Night Mountain'), in Lesotho. The rehabilitation centre is the only one of its kind in the country. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
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  • 31 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Participants greet each other as they arrive on the opening day of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.<br />
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The WCC Assembly takes place August 31 to September 8 under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • Eight-year old Country Gatwech holds one of his family's goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River near South Sudan's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this boy's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.
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  • Twelve-year old Nyamiri Kulang holds one of her family’s goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this girl's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.
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  • Twelve-year old Nyakhan Lual holds one of her family’s goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this girl's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.
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  • Nyakhan Lual and Nyamiri Kulang, both 12, hold two of their families' goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including those of these two girls, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.
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  • Eight-year old Country Gatwech holds two of his family's goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River near South Sudan's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this boy's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.
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  • Nyakhan Lual and Nyamiri Kulang, both 12, hold two of their families' goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including those of these two girls, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Twelve-year old Nyakhan Lual holds one of her family’s goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this girl's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Eight-year old Country Gatwech holds one of his family's goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River near South Sudan's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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In response to unprecedented flooding and fighting in the area, DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. Many families, including this boy's family, received goats as part of the program, which was carried out by Nile Hope, a South Sudanese NGO.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Andre Cosoi, a 3-year old son of immigrants from Moldova, contemplates climbing a tree in the yard of his Tacoma, Washington, home. His family came to the United States in 2006 with assistance from Lutheran Immigration Services and were helped locally by Tacoma Community House, a mission institution of United  Methodist Women.
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  • 26 May 2017, Berlin, Germany: Gestures of reconciliation. Through a Bible study led by Professor Mika Vähäkangas from Finland, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) explored the concept of Reconciliation, based on readings from Genesis 33: 1-17. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
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  • Roshanda Green and her son Tyshon in front of their apartment in East St. Louis, Illinois. Green has participated in child development and skills training programs of the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House, and her son attends the center's day care program.
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  • Camper Brandon Goodwin, who cannot walk unassisted, gets help from a counselor after riding a zip line at Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock, Arkansas. The camp, supported by United Methodist Women, offers children suffering from a variety of disabilities a safe and fun experience similar to that which normally-abled children often enjoy.
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  • Participants in a march and rally celebrating International Women's Day in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
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