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  • Dumo Jeena, a one-year old boy with malaria, gets a hug from his mother in the Wau Teaching Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. His mother walked for five hours to bring him to the hospital the day before, where his temperature spiked to over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). He lapsed into unconsciousness as the hospital staff cooled him down and injected him with an anti-malarial drug. Thanks to the care he received, the boy survived.
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  • Demonstrators share a hug at an Occupy Seattle camp at Seattle Central Community College in Seattle, Washington.
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  • Eline Medjune, 5, a girl in an orphanage in Leogane, Haiti, who survived the January 12, 2010, earthquake, gives a hug to Elena Bargo, a Spanish woman who lives in New York and who is helping care for the children here as a volunteer with the Dominican-Haitian Women's Movement (MUDHA).
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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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  • Rose Michel, a 10-year old survivor of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, lost both her legs when the orphanage she was living in collapsed. Here she gets a hug from Maura Senfre, a volunteer from the Dominican-Haitian Women's Movement (MUDHA).
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  • Colonel Antonio Vamilton López de França Filho receives a hug from a young girl in a camp for Venezuelan refugees at Pacaraima, a Brazilian town on the country's border with Venezuela.  López de França supervises the government's response to the refugee crisis in Pacaraima. Critics have claimed the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to expand the role of the Brazilian military into areas previously managed by civilians.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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 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 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.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-08.jpg
  • 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.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-07.jpg
  • 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 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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  • A young girls hugs a woman in Intibucá
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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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  • Grace Hernandez (right) drives refugees from El Salvador to the airport in San Antonio, Texas, on December 2, 2015. Behind her is Silvia Penado and her son Jacobo, who excitedly hugs his mother. They fled their country to escape gang-related violence. After requesting political asylum in the United States, they were held for several days by immigration officials and then released, although Penado was required to wear an ankle monitor. They stayed briefly in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches, then flew to another location in the U.S. while they await final decisions on their asylum petitions. Hernandez is a volunteer with RAICES.
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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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  • A refugee girl hugs her younger sibling after landing on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 2, 2015. Part of a boatful of refugees that arrived 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.
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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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  • Christian Love Daroy-Gagno, the program director of the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI), hugs children in Pulilan, a village in Bulacan, Philippines, where KKFI has an educational program.<br />
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KKFI is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • A six-year old refugee boy hugs an inflatable Santa Claus in the airport in San Antonio, Texas, on December 2, 2015. The boy's mother took him and fled their home to escape gang-related violence. After requesting political asylum in the United States, they were held for several days by immigration officials and then released, although the mother was forced to wear an ankle monitor. They stayed briefly in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches, then flew to another location in the U.S. while they await final decisions on their asylum petitions.
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  • In Zapotal, Mexico, 3-year old Luz Elena Martinez goes to preschool one hour a day to help prepare her to go full time the following year. In this image, the girl, who is blind, is hugging her older sister, 5-year old Sandra, during a dance by the students. Sandra will graduate from preschool the coming year, but before that she's getting Luz accustomed to the school environment to make for an easier transition next year.
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  • Maria Lucia Ventura (left)  hugs another woman 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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  • Raeda Firas hugs her 4-year old son Luis (right) as he gets ready to leave home in the morning to attend a church-run preschool in Ankawa, Iraq. Her younger son Yusef is in the middle. The Christian family was displaced from Mosul by ISIS in 2014, and live in a church-provided modular home.
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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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • A foreign volunteer hugs a refugee child shortly after she and her family arrived on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 2, 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 to arrive in Greece.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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, 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, 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-076.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.
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  • A mother hugs her child after landing on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015.  She and her 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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  • A volunteer from Norway hugs a refugee boy she has wrapped in an emergency blanket on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The refugees were on a boat that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey, provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums. Hundreds of foreign and local volunteers on the island receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing, food and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030A-144.JPG
  • A volunteer from Norway hugs a refugee child she has wrapped up in an emergency blanket on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The refugees were on a boat that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey, provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums. Hundreds of foreign and local volunteers on the island receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing, food and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_lesbos_1030A-139.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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  • 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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  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, hugs a farmer after a meeting in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
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  • Andrea Cordoro hugs her daughter Deborah, 5, as they participate in a group activity in the office of Caritas in Manaus, Brazil. The weekly gathering is part of an educational and cultural program to combat sexual abuse and exploitation among at-risk children sponsored by the Catholic Church's social ministry. <br />
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Written parental consent obtained.
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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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  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, an interreligious service was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to pray together, for a future of compassion and peace together. The event was attended by representatives of a range of religions present in Stockholm and Sweden as a whole.
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  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, an interreligious service was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to pray together, for a future of compassion and peace together. The event was attended by representatives of a range of religions present in Stockholm and Sweden as a whole.
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  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, an interreligious service was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to pray together, for a future of compassion and peace together. The event was attended by representatives of a range of religions present in Stockholm and Sweden as a whole.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170410_AHP_632...jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
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  • 18 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Two participants embrace one another as they engage in a role-play exercise simulating a flood disaster, 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-20221018_AH2_099...jpg
  • 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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  • 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.]
    Slovakia-2022-Hillert-20220311_AH2_8...jpg
  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
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  • Mayra y Stefanie Coc, indigenous Q'eqchis in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • Juan Manuel Santos, Presidential candidate, and ex-minister for defence for Uribe (and now President), arriving at a voting station in Bogota during Colombian Presidential elections on 20 June 2010.
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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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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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  • 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.
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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.<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.
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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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  • People pray outside the fence surrounding the Federal Detention Center in Seatac, Washington, during a June 24 prayer vigil in support of immigrant parents inside the prison who've been separated from their children. The vigil was sponsored by the United Methodist Church.
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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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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
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  • Cindy Moon, a United Methodist missionary in Thailand, greets a traditionally dressed woman in Buyer, a small village in northern Thailand populated by indigenous hill tribe people. The woman is a member of the local United Methodist congregation.
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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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  • 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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  • Ella Manio, a student in the Mary Johnston College of Nursing in Manila, poses with two children in the Parola neighborhood of Manila's Tondo section. Manio and other nursing students regularly visit the neighborhood to do health education and monitor the health of residents. The students also run a feeding program for neighborhood children.<br />
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The nursing school is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Edwin Chacon, an asylum seeker from Honduras, says goodbye to Sister Therese Cunningham at the Posada Providencia in San Benito, Texas. Chacon, 18, stayed at the shelter for several days after being released by immigration authorities pending a judicial hearing on his asylum request. He then flew on to stay with a relative elsewhere in the United States.<br />
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Cunningham, originally from Ireland, is a member of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit.<br />
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Sponsored by the Catholic Sisters of Divine Providence, the Posada Providencia provides a safe place for people in crisis from all over the world who are seeking legal refuge in the United States.
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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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  • Eline medjune, 5, a girl in an orphanage in Leogane, Haiti, who survived the January 12 earthquake, gives a kiss to Elena Bargo, a Spanish woman who lives in New York and who is helping care for the children here as a volunteer with the Dominican-Haitian Women's Movement (MUDHA).
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 3 November 2018, Uppsala, Sweden: World Council of Churches moderator Dr Agnes Abuom is awarded the Plaque of Saint Eric by Church of Sweden primate Archbishop Antje Jackelén on 3 November. Under the same theme as the World Council of Churches Uppsala Assembly in 1968: “Behold, I make all things new!”, religious leaders from all over the world gather on 3-4 November for an Ecumenical Weekend, not only to celebrate 50 years of global ecumenism since 1968, but also also to raise urgent issues and new challenges facing the ecumenical movement.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A refugee mother embraces her child on October 30, 2015, near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after landing from a journey in small boats across the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Local and international volunteers often provide the arriving refugees with food and medical care and dry clothes before they proceed on their way toward western Europe. Their boat to Greece was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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  • A refugee mother embraces her child on October 30, 2015, near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after landing from a journey in small boats across the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Local and international volunteers often provide the arriving refugees with food and medical care and dry clothes before they proceed on their way toward western Europe. Their boat to Greece was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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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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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future.
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  • 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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