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  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Ukrainian refugees enjoy a hot meal, at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Roman Sigov, a delegated observer from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine speaks during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • Mayada Ari was a math teacher in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, when the fighting caused her eyesight to deteriorate, and she was constantly afraid for her children. So she and her husband and their four kids set off for western Europe. "We heard that the best life is in Germany," she said. They traversed Turkey and Greece and Macedonia and Serbia until arriving in Hungary. She said the journey has been difficult and dangerous. "But it was more dangerous to remain at home," she said.<br />
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In this image, she cuddles a daughter as they shiver in the cold night air as the family leaves the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom and prepares to cross the border into Austria. <br />
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At the border crossing, she and her family received food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Refugees and migrants walk through the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom on their way to the border where they will cross into Austria. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way from Syria, Iraq and other countries to western Europe.
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  • A worker for ACT Alliance member Hungarian Interchurch Aid offers an apple to a young refugee at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Six-year old Miriam, a refugee from Afghanistan, warms herself by a fire as she sits beside her mother and a younger sibling 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.
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  • Refugees and migrants dance together at night in a city park on the Greek island of Chios. The park is full of tents sheltering refugees who crossed the Aegean Sea in small boats from Turkey. They were registered and provided with food and shelter in a reception center built with support from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Many of them then move to the city park where they await a ferry to take them to Athens and then on toward western Europe. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have passed through Greece in 2015.
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  • Two-year old Majed, a refugee from Syria, carries bread through a camp for refugees who have arrived on the Greek island of Chios after crossing the Aegean Sea in small boats from Turkey. They are registered and provided with food and shelter in a reception center built with support from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have passed through Greece in 2015 on their way to western Europe.
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  • Mayada Ari was a math teacher in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, when the fighting caused her eyesight to deteriorate, and she was constantly afraid for her children. So she and her husband and their four kids set off for western Europe. "We heard that the best life is in Germany," she said. They traversed Turkey and Greece and Macedonia and Serbia until arriving in Hungary. She said the journey has been difficult and dangerous. "But it was more dangerous to remain at home," she said.<br />
<br />
In this image, she cuddles two of her children as they shiver in the cold night air as the family leaves the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom and prepares to cross the border into Austria. <br />
<br />
At the border crossing, she and her family received food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
<br />
Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
    hungary_2015_jeffrey_hegyeshalom323.JPG
  • A man and child sit wait on a bus that will take them from a refugee-processing operation to the train station at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
    hungary_2015_jeffrey_beremend173.JPG
  • 13 September 2021, Berlin, Germany: An international symposium on Social Justice in a Digital Age is held in Berlin, Germany. Co-organised by the World Council of Churches and World Association for Christian Communication, the event brings together research, experiences from different regions and marginalized communities, expert input on economic and political trends, and ethical and theological reflection as a contribution to the WCC 11th Assembly in September 2022. Here, Christiane Gebauer<br />
World Student Christian Federation Europe chairperson.
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  • Vullnet Gashi (left), a 10-year old refugee from Kosovo, interacts with Gyöngyi Wingelmann, a staff member of Hungarian Interchurch Aid, in a government-run refugee center in Vamosszabadi, Hungary. Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides child care and other services to residents in the center, who come from Syria, Iraq and other countries and are bound for western Europe.
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  • Refugees on their way to western Europe, a man from Iran holds his son as they approach the border into Croatia near the Serbian village of Berkasovo.
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  • Refugees and migrants on their way to western Europe walk across the border into Croatia near the Serbian village of Berkasovo.
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  • Escorted by a Czech volunteer (in the yellow vest), refugees approach the border into Croatia near the Serbian village of Berkasovo. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq and other countries have flowed through Serbia in 2015, on their way to western Europe.
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  • An Iraqi refugee woman holds her 18-month old daughter, Mahdi, as they approach the border into Croatia near the Serbian village of Berkasovo. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq and other countries have flowed through Serbia in 2015, on their way to western Europe.
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  • Zeffie Papamichail and Yasir Nadeem sit in their room in the Krnjaca Center for Refugees on the outskirts of Belgrade, Serbia. The Greek-Pakistani couple is bound for western Europe, seeking work. "Not Germany, there are too many people and no jobs," said Nadeem. "We want to go where there is work. I hear England is good," said Papamichail.
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  • Four-year old Mashad kicks the ball to his 7-year old sister, Farah, in a city park in Belgrade, Serbia. They are refugees from Syria, and with their family fled that nation for western Europe. This park has filled with refugees from several countries stopping over on their way to Germany, Sweden, Holland, and elsewhere. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A refugee mother and daughter embrace on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 2, 2015. They 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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  • A volunteer disconnects a life jacket on a refugee woman who just landed on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. She and other refugees crowded into a small boat and crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey. They were received on Lesbos by local and international volunteers. They 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 refugee mother holds her child after landing on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. They crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey in a small overcrowded boat, for which they paid Turkish traffickers huge sums. They were received in Greece by local and international volunteers, then proceeded on their way toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030A-059.JPG
  • Majlinda Kuci, a 10-year old refugee from Kosovo, does art in a government-run refugee center in Vamosszabadi, Hungary. Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides child care and other services to residents in the center, who come from Syria, Iraq and other countries and are bound for western Europe.
    hungary_2015_jeffrey_vamosszabadi108.JPG
  • A small refugee receives food from the ACT Alliance at the border crossing into Austria near the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants--including many children--flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries. The ACT Alliance has provided food and other critical support for refugee and migrant families here and in other places along their journey.
    hungary_2015_jeffrey_hegyeshalom138.JPG
  • Refugees walk across the border into Austria near the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants--including many families--flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Surafile Haiyle, 27, is an Eritrean asylum seeker who lives in a church-run shelter in Freudenstadt, Germany. The Freundesdreis Asyl is run by Christlicher Kirchen, and managed by a retired United Methodist pastor. The shelter has 18 asylum seekers from Eritrea and 10 from Gambia. They came to Europe via Sudan and Libya, crossing the Mediterranean to Italy.
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  • Volunteers  help a refugee climb off a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 2, 2015. The man arrived on a boat full of refugees from Turkey. They 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.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1102-110.JPG
  • A refugee boy arrives on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. He and his family arrived in the boat from Turkey, for which they paid Turkish traffickers huge sums. They were received in Greece by local and international volunteers, then proceeded on their way toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030A-078.JPG
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Father Radu Brinza comforts a Ukrainian refugee woman at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
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  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Elena Timofticiuc, executive secretary of AIDRom at the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Ukrainian refugees enjoy a hot meal, at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Toys wait to be distributed, and Ukrainian refugees enjoy a hot meal, at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Aid workers and volunteers await the arrival of refugees at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 10 March 2022, Záhony, Hungary: Shipments of donations from people across Europe wait to be transported across the border into Ukraine. A town of some 3,500 residents, Záhony has become a key border crossing for Ukrainians going to Hungary, particularly by train. Záhony residents support incoming refugees in a variety of ways, and a local high school has been repurposed to serve as a temporary centre for accommodation with a capacity for 250 refugees, as they pass through the town on their way onward into Hungary or other neighbouring countries. Following the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, more than 200,000 people have crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary, to seek refuge from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. [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-20220310_AH2_79...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Father Radu Brinza comforts a Ukrainian refugee woman at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Social worker Zota Ionut Lucian, coordinator at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Social worker Zota Ionut Lucian, coordinator at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Ukrainian refugees enjoy a hot meal, at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Ukrainian refugees enjoy a hot meal, at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Ukrainian refugees enjoy a hot meal, at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: A Ukrainian refugee woman enjoys a hot drink at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Toys wait to be distributed to refugee childre at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: A man visits an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_98...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Sculeni, Romania: Ukrainian refugees enjoy a hot meal, at an AIDRom support point by the Sculeni border crossing connecting Romania and Moldova. The border crossing at Sculeni, near Iasi, Romania, serves as an entry-point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the atrocities of war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Located at Romania’s eastern border, the crossing sees Ukrainian refugees enter Romania after passage through Moldova. As war wages on in Ukraine, the influx of refugees across Europe varies geographically depending on what cities are currently under attack in Ukraine. If the city of Odessa comes under heavy fire, large numbers of Ukrainian refugees are expected to take the route into Romania via the crossing at Sculeni. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH1_55...jpg
  • 10 March 2022, Záhony, Hungary: Shipments of donations from people across Europe wait to be transported across the border into Ukraine. A town of some 3,500 residents, Záhony has become a key border crossing for Ukrainians going to Hungary, particularly by train. Záhony residents support incoming refugees in a variety of ways, and a local high school has been repurposed to serve as a temporary centre for accommodation with a capacity for 250 refugees, as they pass through the town on their way onward into Hungary or other neighbouring countries. Following the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, more than 200,000 people have crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary, to seek refuge from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. [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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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180529_AH1_213...jpg
  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
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  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180529_AH1_216...jpg
  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180529_AH2_223...jpg
  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180529_AH1_215...jpg
  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180529_AH1_213...jpg
  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180529_AH1_214...jpg
  • 29 May 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia: Meeting on 28-31 May in Novi Sad, Serbia, young Christians from all over Europe have gathered for a Conference of European Churches (CEC) Youth pre-assembly. The youth pre-assembly brings together young Christians aged 18-30 for a short ecumenical formation programme in connection with the CEC General Assembly, and offers an opportunity for youth from across Europe to contribute their experience and expertise to the various areas of engagement of CEC. It is an opportunity for growth and leadership development, ecumenical learning and encounters. Here, evening prayers, on the theme of being, and sharing the light.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180529_AH1_216...jpg
  • 3 October 2022, Berlin, Germany: A boy runs through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin. The monument, which consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, serves as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, during World War II. [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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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: WCC acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca speaks in the introduction to a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • Mayada Ari was a math teacher in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, when the fighting caused her eyesight to deteriorate, and she was constantly afraid for her children. So she and her husband and their four kids set off for western Europe. "We heard that the best life is in Germany," she said. They traversed Turkey and Greece and Macedonia and Serbia until arriving in Hungary. She said the journey has been difficult and dangerous. "But it was more dangerous to remain at home," she said.<br />
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In this image, she cuddles two of her children as they shiver in the cold night air as the family leaves the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom and prepares to cross the border into Austria. <br />
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At the border crossing, she and her family received food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Refugees and migrants--often including entire families--receive food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, as they leave the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom late at night and prepare to cross the border into Austria. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Refugees and migrants walk through the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom on their way to the border where they will cross into Austria. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way from Syria, Iraq and other countries to western Europe.
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  • Daniel Fekete from ACT Alliance member Hungarian Interchurch Aid offers fruit to a refugee at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Hungarian soldiers and police search refugees and migrants entering the country at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way from Syria, Iraq and other countries to western Europe. Here soldiers carefully inspect a man's passport and other papers.
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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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  • Milat, a 4-year old refugee from Afghanistan, enjoys some bread in a refugee processing center in the Serbian village of Presevo, not far from the Macedonian border. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq and other countries--including many children--have flowed through Serbia in 2015, on their way to western Europe. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A refugee child waits as a ferry docks at night on the Greek island of Chios. The refugee families here came to the island by crossing the Aegean Sea on small boats from Turkey. Upon arrival, they were registered and provided with food and shelter in a reception center built with support from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Now they move on to Athens, and from there to western Europe. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have passed through Greece in 2015.
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  • 3 October 2022, Berlin, Germany: The sun shines over the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin. The monument, which consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, serves as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, during World War II. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 3 October 2022, Berlin, Germany: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin. The monument, which consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, serves as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, during World War II. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 3 October 2022, Berlin, Germany: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin. The monument, which consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, serves as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, during World War II. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 3 October 2022, Berlin, Germany: A young woman walks through one of the passages of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin. The monument, which consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, serves as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, during World War II. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 3 October 2022, Berlin, Germany: A young man looks at his phone as he moves through one of the passages of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin. The monument, which consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, serves as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, during World War II. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 3 October 2022, Berlin, Germany: Two young men converse as they visit the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin. The monument, which consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, serves as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, during World War II. [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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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Ivanna Illina, an observer from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church speaks during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Archbishop Dr Anders Wejryd (left) of Church of Sweden leads a conversation with Ivanna Illina, an observer from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (right) and Roman Sigov, a delegated observer from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (centre) during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Iain McLarty, a conductor, viola player and church musician from Scotland plays a musical interlude during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Professor Dr Sergii Bortnyk (Ukraine) speaks during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Professor Dr Sergii Bortnyk (Ukraine) speaks during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Assembly participants show a Swiss and Ukrainian flag in support of Ukraine in response to a speech by H.E. Archbishop Yevstratiy of Chernihiv and Nizhiyn (Ukraine) to a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: H.E. Archbishop Yevstratiy of Chernihiv and Nizhiyn (Ukraine) speaks during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Archbishop Dr Anders Wejryd (left) of Church of Sweden leads a conversation with H.E. Archbishop Yevstratiy of Chernihiv and Nizhiyn (Ukraine) (right) and Professor Dr Sergii Bortnyk (Ukraine) (center) during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Professor Dr Sergii Bortnyk (Ukraine) speaks during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: H.E. Archbishop Yevstratiy of Chernihiv and Nizhiyn (Ukraine) speaks during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: H.E. Archbishop Yevstratiy of Chernihiv and Nizhiyn (Ukraine) speaks during a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Filo Kaiser Tu-Faleupolu, Methodist Church of New Zealand, plays a musical prelude on the piano as assembly participants gather for a thematic plenary focused on Europe, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 12 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: H.E. Metropolitan Dr Isaac Barakat of Germany and Central Europe of the Patriarchate of Antioch venerates an icon upon entering church, as a Feast of Saint Epiphanius - one of the patron saints of the Church of Cyprus - is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to study, discuss and reflect on the main theme of the WCC 11th Assembly, "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity" from an Orthodox perspective. Discussions also center around current global challenges and how the Orthodox agenda at the WCC 11th Assembly can keep dialogue open.
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  • 11 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: H.E. Metropolitan Dr Isaac Barakat of Germany and Central Europe (centre) of the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, and other participants walk towards the chapel of Agia Anna for morning prayer, as 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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  • Mohammed Adnan talks with his mother, Fripat Bibi, on Skype from a government-run refugee center in Vamosszabadi, Hungary. Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides child care and other services to residents in the center, who come from Syria, Iraq and other countries and are bound for western Europe. Adnan's mother is in Pakistan, which he left to seek employment in Europe.
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  • Mohammed Adnan talks with his mother, Fripat Bibi, on Skype from a government-run refugee center in Vamosszabadi, Hungary. Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides child care and other services to residents in the center, who come from Syria, Iraq and other countries and are bound for western Europe. Adnan's mother is in Pakistan, which he left to seek employment in Europe.
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  • Mayada Ari was a math teacher in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, when the fighting caused her eyesight to deteriorate, and she was constantly afraid for her children. So she and her husband and their four kids set off for western Europe. "We heard that the best life is in Germany," she said. They traversed Turkey and Greece and Macedonia and Serbia until arriving in Hungary. She said the journey has been difficult and dangerous. "But it was more dangerous to remain at home," she said.<br />
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In this image, she and her children walk from the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom across the border into Austria. <br />
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At the border crossing, she and her family received food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • A refugee family from Deir ez-Zor, Syria, crosses from Hungary into Austria at night near the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom. <br />
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While her husband walks ahead, Mayada Ari follows behind, shepherding her four children. She was a math teacher in Syria. When the fighting caused her eyesight to deteriorate, and she was constantly afraid for her children, she and her husband decided to take their kids and set off for western Europe. "We heard that the best life is in Germany," she said. They traversed Turkey and Greece and Macedonia and Serbia until arriving in Hungary. She said the journey has been difficult and dangerous. "But it was more dangerous to remain at home," she said.<br />
<br />
At the border crossing, the family received food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
<br />
Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Mayada Ari was a math teacher in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, when the fighting caused her eyesight to deteriorate, and she was constantly afraid for her children. So she and her husband and their four kids set off for western Europe. "We heard that the best life is in Germany," she said. They traversed Turkey and Greece and Macedonia and Serbia until arriving in Hungary. She said the journey has been difficult and dangerous. "But it was more dangerous to remain at home," she said.<br />
<br />
In this image, she cuddles one of her children in the cold night air as another wraps a blanket around them in the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom, from where they will cross the border into Austria. <br />
<br />
At the border crossing, she and her family received food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
<br />
Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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