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  • 26 February 2020, Abu Dis, Palestine: 'Occupation' reads a text written on the separation wall. The separation wall runs through Abu Dis, closing it off from nearby Al-Shikhsa'ad. [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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  • One of Israel's "Women in Black" discusses with passersby during the women's their weekly peace vigil at a busy Jerusalem street corner. The women oppose Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
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  • 3 October 2018, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: EAs arrive to spend the night in Khan al Ahmar. Accompaniers serving the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel offer protective presence to vulnerable communities living under occupation. Khan al Ahmar is a Bedouin community located within the East Jerusalem Periphery, in E1 area. It is home to 32 families, 173 persons in total, including 92 children and youths. The community has a mosque and a school, which was built in 2009 and serves more than 150 children between the ages of six and fifteen, from Khan al Ahmar and other nearby communities. With due date 1 October 2018, Israeli authorities threaten to demolish the site, thereby making room for nearby Israeli settlements to expand.
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  • One of Israel's "Women in Black" argues with passersby during the women's weekly peace vigil at a busy Jerusalem street corner. The women are opposed to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
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  • A member of Israel's "Women in Black" during the group's weekly peace vigil at a busy Jerusalem street corner. The women oppose Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
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  • 3 October 2018, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: EAs arrive to spend the night in Khan al Ahmar. Accompaniers serving the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel offer protective presence to vulnerable communities living under occupation. Khan al Ahmar is a Bedouin community located within the East Jerusalem Periphery, in E1 area. It is home to 32 families, 173 persons in total, including 92 children and youths. The community has a mosque and a school, which was built in 2009 and serves more than 150 children between the ages of six and fifteen, from Khan al Ahmar and other nearby communities. With due date 1 October 2018, Israeli authorities threaten to demolish the site, thereby making room for nearby Israeli settlements to expand.
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  • 3 October 2018, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: EAs arrive to spend the night in Khan al Ahmar. Accompaniers serving the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel offer protective presence to vulnerable communities living under occupation. Khan al Ahmar is a Bedouin community located within the East Jerusalem Periphery, in E1 area. It is home to 32 families, 173 persons in total, including 92 children and youths. The community has a mosque and a school, which was built in 2009 and serves more than 150 children between the ages of six and fifteen, from Khan al Ahmar and other nearby communities. With due date 1 October 2018, Israeli authorities threaten to demolish the site, thereby making room for nearby Israeli settlements to expand.
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  • 3 October 2018, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: EAs arrive to spend the night in Khan al Ahmar. Accompaniers serving the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel offer protective presence to vulnerable communities living under occupation. Khan al Ahmar is a Bedouin community located within the East Jerusalem Periphery, in E1 area. It is home to 32 families, 173 persons in total, including 92 children and youths. The community has a mosque and a school, which was built in 2009 and serves more than 150 children between the ages of six and fifteen, from Khan al Ahmar and other nearby communities. With due date 1 October 2018, Israeli authorities threaten to demolish the site, thereby making room for nearby Israeli settlements to expand.
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  • Demonstrators remind delegates arriving for the May 1 session of the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida, that legislation requiring the divestment of church funds from companies supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian is supported by most church leaders in the Holy Land. A vote on the divestment motion is expected today.
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  • Members of Israel's "Women in Black" during their their weekly peace vigil at a busy Jerusalem street corner. The women oppose Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
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  • Residents of an occupied building in Manaus, Brazil. The mostly indigenous families seized the unoccupied Casa do Estudante in the city center in 2018.
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  • 18 March 2019, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel spend the morning doing a 'school run', by which they offer a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian children as they go to school at Al Minya.  With Israeli settler communities nearby, strong military presence, and a high-speed road passing just by the school entrance, an international presence can help ensure safe passage for the children.
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  • Family and friends mourn over the body of Carlos Martinez where he was found murdered in a grove of African palm oil trees. The 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death on October 2, 2011, on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduras businessmen. The Honduran security forces have militarized the area, and killings of peasant leaders have become common. Many of the cooperatives were started with assistance from Catholic priests and lay pastors in the region, and some Catholic leaders remain close supporters of the peasant movement. A sister of Martinez claimed he was killed by a security guard from a nearby plantation belonging to Miguel Facusse, the wealthiest of Honduran landowners.
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  • Koreans take photographs of themselves with Pyeonghwabi, the statue of a teenage girl who symbolizes the “comfort women” who were victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II. The statue, which sits permanently across the street from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, is dressed warmly for the cold winter by her supporters.
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  • A boy drives a cart filled with rubble in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza strip. Such rubble, the remains of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, is the main ingredient of new concrete blocks for reconstruction, and throughout Gaza thousands of children work collecting and transporting the material.
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  • A Palestinian man harvests carnations in a greenhouse in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Gazan farmers once exported more than 50 million cut flowers a year, but the Israeli government's blockade of the territory stopped most of that commerce. Under intense international pressure, Israel partially eased its restrictions on flower exports in 2010, yet sales to European markets remain only a quarter of what they once were.
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  • A man sells fresh bread in the market of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza strip. .
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  • Women shopping in the market of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza strip. .
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  • Sister Mariam Almiron, a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word from Argentina, spins a small child around following Sunday Mass at the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza City. There are only some 3,000 Christians in Gaza, of which just over 200 are Catholic..
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  • Candles burn as Catholics celebrate Sunday Mass in the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza City. There are only some 3,000 Christians in Gaza, of which just over 200 are Catholic..
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  • Children play football along the beach in Gaza. Although the Palestinian territory fronts the sea, Gazans are not allowed to venture more than two kilometers from shore without coming under fire from Israeli gunboats..
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  • An 11-year old boy rides his bike amid the ruins of Khan Yunis, Gaza. Houses in the area were destroyed by Israeli air strikes during the 2014 war between the state of Israel and the Hamas government of Gaza.
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  • Student Emad Abu Holli climbs a utility pole during a class on electrical wiring at the Vocational Training Center in Khan Yunis, Gaza. The center is sponsored by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. DSPR is a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • Instructor Ishamis Abu Mhasin helps students learn to spray warnish in a woodworking class in the Vocational Training Center in Gaza City, Gaza. The center is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
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  • Children traumatized by war enjoy a trip to an amusement park in Gaza City. The outing was sponsored by the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, a member of the ACT Alliance, and financed by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine and Misereor.
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  • Eight-year old Awad Samy Khater harvests tomatoes in his family's greenhouse in Al Fukari, Gaza. The family grows crops in several greenhouses, using water from a rain water catchment system to fill a giant pond. That water is mixed with increasingly saline groundwater from a well. The system allows them to produce a greater quantity of more lucrative crops, at greater profit because they have to buy less water. The boy's family received assistance in building the system from Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, a member of the ACT Alliance. In the wake of the devastating 2014 war, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory. Quality water is growing increasingly scarce in Gaza, as Israel drains the underground aquifer for its own development, pulling salt water into the aquifer from the west.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Nurse Leila Elamoudi weighs 10-month old Malek in a clinic in Gaza City supported by DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, whose members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged territory.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Andrea Cordoro poses with her daughters Ana Paula (left) 11, and Deborah, 5, in their small room in a building in Manaus, Brazil. The Kokama indigenous family migrated to the city in 2018, but unable to find decent housing they could afford, they joined with other poor families to take over an unoccupied building--the Casa do Estudante--in the city center. Caritas, a ministry of the Catholic Church, has helped the families in their struggle.<br />
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Written parental consent obtained.
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  • 15 March 2019, Ma'alul: Ma’alul, a Palestinian village destroyed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, sees a visit by ecumenical accompaniers from the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. 95-year-old Salem is one of few remaining survivors from the 75 families who used to live in the village back in 1948.
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  • 2 March 2020, Hebron: Daniel, a Swiss participant in the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel looks at a collection of signs mounted on the Al-Shuhada Street in the H2 area of Hebron. Notably, the signs are in Hebrew and English, but not in Arabic. The area is under Israeli military control, and following the 1994 massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs (known to the Muslims as Al-Ibrahimi Mosque and to the Jews as Cave of Machpelah) all the Palestinian shops on Shuhada street have been closed, turning the street into a virtual ghost town.
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  • 2 March 2020, Hebron: Nora, a participant in the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, points to a football field built by Israeli settlers on the Al-Shuhada Street in the H2 area of Hebron. The area is under Israeli military control, and following the 1994 massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs (known to the Muslims as Al-Ibrahimi Mosque and to the Jews as Cave of Machpelah) all the Palestinian shops on Shuhada street have been closed, turning the street into a virtual ghost town.
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  • 2 March 2020, Hebron: An election sign sits above closed shops on the Al-Shuhada Street in the H2 area of Hebron. The area is under Israeli military control, and following the 1994 massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs (known to the Muslims as Al-Ibrahimi Mosque and to the Jews as Cave of Machpelah) all the Palestinian shops on Shuhada street have been closed, turning the street into a virtual ghost town.
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  • 2 March 2020, Hebron: The Al-Shuhada Street in the H2 area of Hebron. The area is under Israeli military control, and following the 1994 massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs (known to the Muslims as Al-Ibrahimi Mosque and to the Jews as Cave of Machpelah) all the Palestinian shops on Shuhada street have been closed, turning the street into a virtual ghost town.
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  • 2 March 2020, Hebron: The Al-Shuhada Street in the H2 area of Hebron. The area is under Israeli military control, and following the 1994 massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs (known to the Muslims as Al-Ibrahimi Mosque and to the Jews as Cave of Machpelah) all the Palestinian shops on Shuhada street have been closed, turning the street into a virtual ghost town.
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  • The Rev. We Hyun Chang, a pastor in Belmont, Mass., and a delegate from the New England annual conference, holds a map of Israeli encroachment of the West Bank as he presents a minority report during the May 2 session of the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Chang presented a motion favoring divestment from corporations profiting from the illegal Israeli settlement of occupied Palestinian territories. The move was defeated.
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  • Tarek Al-Zoughbi is a Palestinian Christian who works at the Wi'am Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center in Bethlehem.
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  • Omar Haramy is administrator of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem.
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  • Nanor Arakelian is a Palestinian Christian who lives in East Jerusalem. She works as communications coordinator for an ecumenical organization.
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  • Jean Zaru is a Palestinian Christian peace and non-violence activist, and a leader of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the West Bank.
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  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Jerusalem.
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  • At a check point, Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinians from entering Jerusalem.
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  • At a check point, Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinians from entering Jerusalem.
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  • A Palestinian woman winnows olives during the yearly olive harvest in the West Bank town of Turmus'ayya. She throws the olives in the air and the wind blows the leaves away. Olives play a central role in the traditional Palestinian diet and economy.
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  • A Palestinian woman winnows olives during the yearly olive harvest in the West Bank town of Turmus'ayya. She throws the olives in the air and the wind blows the leaves away. Olives play a central role in the traditional Palestinian diet and economy.
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  • A Palestinian man in the West Bank town of Turmus'ayya.
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  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
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  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
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  • In the West Bank village of Bani Naim, where families until recently lived in caves (as seen in the background), Fatima Mostafa Al-Adarah poses with her twin sons Nour and Mo’taz and their little brother Ameer. Above the cave where they once lived is a new house which they built two years ago with assistance from Catholic Relief Services.
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  • Majed Jamal Tarairah with the tomato plants he cares for in a community greenhouse in Bani Naim, in the southern part of the West Bank. The project is supported by Catholic Relief Services..
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  • In the West Bank village of Bani Naim, a man digs a hole in the ground that the community will use as a water reserve. One of the critical issues in Israeli-Palestinian relations is the growing scarcity of water and the manner in which the Israeli separation barrier has deprived the West Bank of several water sources.
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  • Old men in Hebron.
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  • A women lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
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  • A boy lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
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  • A man walks along the street in Gaza.
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  • Palestinian man and woman in the Beach Refugee Camp in Gaza.
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  • A woman prepares tea in her apartment in the Beach Refugee Camp in Gaza.
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  • A teacher leads a class at Al-Zaytoon School, located in the Jabalyia Refugee Camp in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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  • Girls exercise in the physical education class at Al-Zaytoon School, located in the Jabalyia Refugee Camp in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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  • Students in a class at Al-Zaytoon School, located in the Jabalyia Refugee Camp in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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  • A teacher stands in front of her class during an assembly at the Al-Zaytoon School, located in the Jabalyia Refugee Camp in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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  • Students in the Al-Zaytoon School, located in the Jabalyia Refugee Camp in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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  • Students in the Al-Zaytoon School, located in the Jabalyia Refugee Camp in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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  • Girls exercise in the physical education class at Al-Zaytoon School, located in the Jabalyia Refugee Camp in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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  • 18 March 2019, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel spend the morning doing a 'school run', by which they offer a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian children as they go to school at Al Minya.  With Israeli settler communities nearby, strong military presence, and a high-speed road passing just by the school entrance, an international presence can help ensure safe passage for the children.
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  • 18 March 2019, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel spend the morning doing a 'school run', by which they offer a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian children as they go to school at Al Minya.  With Israeli settler communities nearby, strong military presence, and a high-speed road passing just by the school entrance, an international presence can help ensure safe passage for the children. Here, EA Jane from Scotland.
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  • 18 March 2019, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: A group of children head to Al Minya school. On the wall in Arabic, is a poem about how to have good manners. Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel spend the morning doing a 'school run', by which they offer a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian children as they go to school at Al Minya.  With Israeli settler communities nearby, strong military presence, and a high-speed road passing just by the school entrance, an international presence can help ensure safe passage for the children.
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  • 18 March 2019, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel spend the morning doing a 'school run', by which they offer a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian children as they go to school at Al Minya.  With Israeli settler communities nearby, strong military presence, and a high-speed road passing just by the school entrance, an international presence can help ensure safe passage for the children.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190318_AH2_963...jpg
  • 18 March 2019, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel spend the morning doing a 'school run', by which they offer a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian children as they go to school at Al Minya.  With Israeli settler communities nearby, strong military presence, and a high-speed road passing just by the school entrance, an international presence can help ensure safe passage for the children.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190318_AH2_961...jpg
  • 18 March 2019, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel spend the morning doing a 'school run', by which they offer a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian children as they go to school at Al Minya.  With Israeli settler communities nearby, strong military presence, and a high-speed road passing just by the school entrance, an international presence can help ensure safe passage for the children.
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  • 15 March 2019, Jerusalem: On 15 March, a group of Ecumenical accompaniers from the World Council of Churches were invited to share Shabbat dinner with the Kol HaNeshama congregation in Jerusalem. Kol HaNeshama is a reformed Jewish congregation of 350 families in Jerusalem, and one that works actively to be a focal point for Jewish pluralism and social action in the area. With parents originally from Poland, Israel-born Amos was one of the congregants receiving the ecumenical accompaniers at the dinner, affording them an opportunity to learn about Israeli perspectives on the conflict, to share reflections and exchange experiences.
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  • 15 March 2019, Haifa, Israel: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Israel and Palestine gather for mid-term orientation. Here, David from the UK.
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  • 14 March 2019, Haifa, Israel: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Israel and Palestine gather for mid-term orientation, starting the day with a participant-led yoga session.
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  • 14 March 2019, Haifa, Israel: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Israel and Palestine gather for mid-term orientation, starting the day with a participant-led yoga session.
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  • 13 March 2019, Jerusalem: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Israel and Palestine gather for mid-term orientation, sharing reflections on their time together in Palestine and Israel.
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  • 13 March 2019, Jerusalem: Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Israel and Palestine gather for mid-term orientation, sharing reflections on their time together in Palestine and Israel.
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  • 12 October 2018, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The separation barrier cuts through Bethlehem, separating the Israeli side from the Palestinian one, near Checkpoint 300.
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  • The Rev. Juan Guerrero, a United Methodist missionary and superintendent of the United Methodist Mission in Honduras, prays over the body of Carlos Martinez, a 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death on October 2, 2011, on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduras businessmen. Honduran security forces have militarized the area, and killings of peasant leaders have become common. Many of the cooperatives were started with assistance from Catholic priests and lay pastors in the region. A sister of Martinez claimed he was killed by a security guard from a nearby plantation belonging to Miguel Facusse, the wealthiest of Honduran landowners.
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  • The Rev. Juan Guerrero, a United Methodist pastor, prays over the body of Carlos Martinez, a 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death on October 2, 2011, on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduras businessmen. The Honduran security forces have militarized the area, and killings of peasant leaders have become common. Many of the cooperatives were started with assistance from Catholic priests and lay pastors in the region, and some Catholic leaders remain close supporters of the peasant movement. A sister of Martinez claimed he was killed by a security guard from a nearby plantation belonging to Miguel Facusse, the wealthiest of Honduran landowners.
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  • The Rev. Juan Guerrero, a United Methodist missionary and superintendent of the United Methodist Mission in Honduras, prays over the body of Carlos Martinez, a 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death on October 2, 2011, on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduras businessmen. Honduran security forces have militarized the area, and killings of peasant leaders have become common. Many of the cooperatives were started with assistance from Catholic priests and lay pastors in the region. A sister of Martinez claimed he was killed by a security guard from a nearby plantation belonging to Miguel Facusse, the wealthiest of Honduran landowners.
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  • The Rev. Juan Guerrero, a United Methodist missionary and superintendent of the United Methodist Mission in Honduras, prays over the body of Carlos Martinez, a 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death on October 2, 2011, on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduras businessmen. Honduran security forces have militarized the area, and killings of peasant leaders have become common. Many of the cooperatives were started with assistance from Catholic priests and lay pastors in the region. A sister of Martinez claimed he was killed by a security guard from a nearby plantation belonging to Miguel Facusse, the wealthiest of Honduran landowners.
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  • Family and friends dress the body of Carlos Martinez, a 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death on October 2, 2011, on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduras businessmen. The Honduran security forces have militarized the area, and killings of peasant leaders have become common. Many of the cooperatives were started with assistance from Catholic priests and lay pastors in the region, and some Catholic leaders remain close supporters of the peasant movement. A sister of Martinez claimed he was killed by a security guard from a nearby plantation belonging to Miguel Facusse, the wealthiest of Honduran landowners.
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  • Family and friends transport the body of Carlos Martinez, a 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death on October 2, 2011, on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduras businessmen. The Honduran security forces have militarized the area, and killings of peasant leaders have become common. Many of the cooperatives were started with assistance from Catholic priests and lay pastors in the region, and some Catholic leaders remain close supporters of the peasant movement. A sister of Martinez claimed he was killed by a security guard from a nearby plantation belonging to Miguel Facusse, the wealthiest of Honduran landowners.
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  • Ye Jin holds a sign at a weekly demonstration in Seoul, South Korea, around Pyeonghwabi, the statue of a teenage girl who symbolizes the “comfort women” who were victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II. The statue sits permanently across the street from the Japanese embassy.
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  • Pam-soo Kim cleans Pyeonghwabi, the statue of a teenage girl who symbolizes the “comfort women” who were victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II. The statue, which sits permanently across the street from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, is dressed warmly for the cold winter by her supporters.
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  • Ye Jin holds a sign at a weekly demonstration in Seoul, South Korea, around Pyeonghwabi, the statue of a teenage girl who symbolizes the “comfort women” who were victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II. The statue sits permanently across the street from the Japanese embassy.
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  • Pyeonghwabi, the statue of a teenage girl who symbolizes the “comfort women” who were victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II, is dressed warmly as she sits across the street from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
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  • Pyeonghwabi, the statue of a teenage girl who symbolizes the “comfort women” who were victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II, is dressed warmly as she sits across the street from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
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  • The Rev. Young-Kyu Park, a Methodist pastor, blesses Pyeonghwabi, the statue of a teenage girl who symbolizes the “comfort women” who were victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II, just before a weekly demonstration on December 13, 2017. The statue, which sits permanently across the street from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, is dressed warmly for the cold winter by her supporters.
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  • Pyeonghwabi, the statue of a teenage girl who symbolizes the “comfort women” who were victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II, is dressed warmly as she sits across the street from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
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  • Najla Chahda, director of the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
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  • Samina Khafagi (right) feeds her husband Hussein and their four children a snack of grapes in their one-room apartment in Beirut, Lebanon. They are refugees from Iraq, and receive assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
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  • Samina Khafagi feeds her young son Hamad a grape as she sits with her husband Hussein and their other three children in their one-room apartment in Beirut, Lebanon. They are refugees from Iraq, and receive assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
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  • Nahla Na'em Awdish helps her three children - Mark, 5 (left); Kevin, 6; and Rudi, 3 - learn English in their apartment in Beirut. The family's other child, daughter Mary, was kidnapped and killed in Iraq, provoking the family to leave and become refugees first in Syria and then in Lebanon, where they receive assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
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  • Samina Khafagi cooks a meal in the small kitchen of her family's dark and cramped apartment in Beirut, Lebanon. Khafagi and her husband and four children are refugees from Iraq, and receive assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
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  • Rana Ramzi (right) shows photos of her dead husband to Ranha Chehab, a social worker of the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, in Ramzi's apartment in Beirut. Ramzi's husband was killed February 29, 2008, in Mosul, Iraq, while working as a driver and assistant to the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Archbishop Faraj Rahho, who was later found dead. Ramzi and her three children fled Iraq in May and live as refugees in Lebanon, along with Ramzi's mother (left), also a refugee from Iraq. They have received assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community. Both Ramzi and her children and mother hope to resettle in the United States.
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  • Rana Ramzi is an Iraqi refugee living in Beirut. Her husband was killed February 29, 2008, in Mosul, Iraq, while working as a driver and assistant to the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Archbishop Faraj Rahho, who was later found dead. Ramzi and her three children fled Iraq in May and live in Lebanon, where they have received assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community. The family is hoping to resettle in coming months in the United States.
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  • Rana Ramzi, an Iraqi refugee, cooks dinner for her family in their small apartment in Beirut as her daughter, Farah Faris, who is 20 months old, looks on. Ramzi's husband was killed February 29, 2008, in Mosul, Iraq, while working as a driver and assistant to the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Archbishop Faraj Rahho, who was later found dead. Ramzi and her three children fled Iraq in May. They have received assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community. Ramzi is hoping to resettle in the U.S. in coming months.
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  • Farah Faris, who is 20 months old, gets a kiss from her mother, Rana Ramzi, in their small apartment in Beirut. Ramzi's husband was killed February 29, 2008, in Mosul, Iraq, while working as a driver and assistant to the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Archbishop Faraj Rahho, who was later found dead. Ramzi and her three children (including Stephen, right, and Milad) fled Iraq in May and live as refugees in Lebanon. They have received assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
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  • Farah Faris, who is 20 months old, gets a kiss from her mother, Rana Ramzi, in their small apartment in Beirut. Ramzi's husband was killed February 29, 2008, in Mosul, Iraq, while working as a driver and assistant to the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Archbishop Faraj Rahho, who was later found dead. Ramzi and her three children (including Stephen, right, and Milad) fled Iraq in May and live as refugees in Lebanon. They have received assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
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  • Palestinians collect the remains of olive trees bulldozed in April 2003 by the Israeli military in the Gaza strip, occupied since 1967 by Israel. Many of the trees were hundreds of years old. The trunks are often taken to be replanted on illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories.
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