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  • The (Orthodox) Holy Ascension of Our Lord Cathedral in Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Behind it, a container ship maneuvers into Dutch Harbor.
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  • The cargo ship Maersk Singapore anchored in Holmes Harbor, near Whidbey Island, Washington.
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  • Aerial view of the cargo ship Maersk Singapore anchored in Holmes Harbor, near Whidbey Island, Washington.
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  • A NATO ship off the coast of Libya, near the port city of Misrata.
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  • The main harbor of Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince was devastated by the country's January 12 earthquake, complicating the daunting task of getting international assistance to the hundreds of thousands survivors who are homeless. Yet the main wharf partially reopened on January 23. Here cargo is unloaded from a Royal Dutch Navy ship by U.S. sailors.
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  • The main harbor of Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince was devastated by the country's January 12 earthquake, complicating the daunting task of getting international assistance to the hundreds of thousands survivors who are homeless. Yet the main wharf partially reopened on January 23. Here cargo is unloaded from a Royal Dutch Navy ship by U.S. sailors.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
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  • Thirteen-year old Rahib Jumagargo waves the Libyan flag upon arriving by ship back to his home of Misrata. For Libya's rebels, the tricolor flag (used between 1951 and 1969) has replaced the all-green flag of Moammar Gadhafi's government.
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  • Ryjil Christianson, a ship's mate, points out birds and other wildlife to passengers on the Danny J, a ferry boat that connects Homer to Kachemak Bay, at the edge of Alaska's Cook Inlet.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, passes through a rainbow as it sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, passes through a rainbow as it sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
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  • A ship based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sails out to begin the crab fishing season. Working on these boats is one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
    usa-2005-jeffrey-alaska-010.jpg
  • Thirteen-year old Rahib Jumagargo waves the Libyan flag upon arriving by ship back to his home of Misrata. For Libya's rebels, the tricolor flag (used between 1951 and 1969) has replaced the all-green flag of Moammar Gadhafi's government.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-095.jpg
  • Thirteen-year old Rahib Jumagargo waves the Libyan flag upon arriving by ship back to his home of Misrata. For Libya's rebels, the tricolor flag (used between 1951 and 1969) has replaced the all-green flag of Moammar Gadhafi's government.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-092.jpg
  • Thirteen-year old Rahib Jumagargo waves the Libyan flag upon arriving by ship back to his home of Misrata. For Libya's rebels, the tricolor flag (used between 1951 and 1969) has replaced the all-green flag of Moammar Gadhafi's government.
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  • The blessing of the crab fleet, which is broadcast over the radio to ships in the Dutch Harbor/Unalaska area as they prepare to begin the crabbing season. Left to right: Unalaska Mayor Shirley Marquardt, United Methodist layman Rick Harwell, Unalaska Christian Fellowship pastor John Honan, Unalaska United Methodist Church pastor the Rev. Dale Kelley.
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  • Aerial view of logs piled for export at the Port of Kalama, Washington.
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  • The bulk carrier Blue Ionian takes on grain at the Port of Kalama, Washington.
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  • 20 February 2019, Geneva, Switzerland:  On 20-21 February, PEPFAR, UNAIDS, the World Council of Churches and the International Catholic Migration Commission host a workshop on HIV among migrants and refugees. The aim of the workshop is to identify a roadmap for strengthening faith-based organizations’ engagement in collaboration with other sectors, expanding the role of faith-based organizations in addressing HIV risk and providing services to migrants and refugees.
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  • 21 February 2019, Geneva, Switzerland:  On 20-21 February, PEPFAR, UNAIDS, the World Council of Churches and the International Catholic Migration Commission host a workshop on HIV among migrants and refugees. The aim of the workshop is to identify a roadmap for strengthening faith-based organizations’ engagement in collaboration with other sectors, expanding the role of faith-based organizations in addressing HIV risk and providing services to migrants and refugees.
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  • Captain Elsa Bishop pilots a ferry boat crossing Kachemak Bay, at the edge of Alaska's Cook Inlet.
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  • Captain Elsa Bishop pilots a ferry boat crossing Kachemak Bay, at the edge of Alaska's Cook Inlet.
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  • Captain Elsa Bishop pilots a ferry boat crossing Kachemak Bay, at the edge of Alaska's Cook Inlet.
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  • Captain Elsa Bishop pilots a ferry boat crossing Kachemak Bay, at the edge of Alaska's Cook Inlet.
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  • Captain Elsa Bishop pilots a ferry boat crossing Kachemak Bay, at the edge of Alaska's Cook Inlet.
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  • Ryjil Christianson ties up the Danny J, a ferry boat that connects Homer to Kachemak Bay, at the edge of Alaska's Cook Inlet.
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  • Pollack being processed in a fish processing plant in Unalaska, Alaska.
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  • Pollack being processed in a fish processing plant in Unalaska, Alaska.
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  • Pollack being processed in a fish processing plant in Unalaska, Alaska.
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  • Pollack being processed in a fish processing plant in Unalaska, Alaska.
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  • A year after Hurricane Matthew ravaged parts of Haiti, Wisnel Amontus works sewing a sail fo the boat in the background in the fishing community of Plateforme, a village on the northwestern coast of Haiti. The village was devastated by the storm, and Lutheran World Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped the community rebuild its economy with fishing materials, a solar-powered refrigerator room for storing their catch, and other assistance, including purchasing this boat, which will make it easier for the isolated community to transport its catch to market.
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  • 22 September 2016, Castlemilk, Glasgow, Scotland: Wooden handicraft produced at the carpentry workshops of Castlemilk Parish Church.
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  • 20 February 2019, Geneva, Switzerland: Remembering the many people on the move, and the particular vulnerability of people migrating by boat, participants write down challenges and ways forward on symbolic boats during the workshop. On 20-21 February, PEPFAR, UNAIDS, the World Council of Churches and the International Catholic Migration Commission host a workshop on HIV among migrants and refugees. The aim of the workshop is to identify a roadmap for strengthening faith-based organizations’ engagement in collaboration with other sectors, expanding the role of faith-based organizations in addressing HIV risk and providing services to migrants and refugees.
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  • Captain Elsa Bishop pilots a ferry boat crossing Kachemak Bay, at the edge of Alaska's Cook Inlet.
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  • A Roma woman holds her baby inside a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • As its mother observes, a small child bathes outside the shipping container that has been converted into its family's home home in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. This and dozens of other Roma families were evicted from Bellville, an urban squatter settlement, in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • A Roma woman who lives in a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • Roma girls who live in shipping containers that have been converted into houses in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • Roma girls who live in shipping containers that have been converted into houses in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • Milan Pesic and his wife Gordana share a kiss as they pose inside the shipping container that has been converted into their home in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. They and dozens of other Roma families were evicted from Bellville, an urban squatter settlement, in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • A Roma girl who lives in a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B43.jpg
  • A Roma girl who lives in a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • Roma children play football amid shipping containers that have been converted into houses in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B31.jpg
  • Roma children play football amid shipping containers that have been converted into houses in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B33.jpg
  • Roma children play football amid shipping containers that have been converted into houses in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B27.jpg
  • Roma girls who live in a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B30.jpg
  • A Roma girl who lives in a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B28.jpg
  • A Roma woman who lives in a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B26.jpg
  • A Roma woman holds her baby inside a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B24.jpg
  • A Roma woman holds her baby inside a shipping container that has been converted into a house in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B23.jpg
  • A child pushes a baby cart through a settlement of displaced Roma families in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. The families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. They were resettled in a collection of shipping containers far from the city center.
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  • The port of Coronel near Concepción, Chile. Many of the ships in harbour were destroyed by the tsunami, and some found inland.
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  • A small child bathes outside the shipping container that has been converted into its family's home home in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. This and dozens of other Roma families were evicted from Bellville, an urban squatter settlement, in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B51.jpg
  • Roma women sit together with their children, sharing tea. They live in shipping containers that have been converted into houses in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B49.jpg
  • Milan Pesic and his wife Gordana pose inside the shipping container that has been converted into their home in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. They and dozens of other Roma families were evicted from Bellville, an urban squatter settlement, in 2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office buildings. The shipping containers they now call home, which were provided at no cost by local authorities, are far from the city center.
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  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: Supplies in a storage room at the Evangelical Lutheran church in Pozdišovce, waiting to be transported to the border crossing at Vyšné Nemecké for distribution to incoming refugees. 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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  • A captain pilots a ferry carrying the participants of the Green Attica Symposium in Greece. He stands in front of Orthodox Christian icons.
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  • Workers in a boatyard on the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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  • A worker in a boatyard on the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, hammers off rust on the hull of a boat, next to a propellor
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  • A wounded rebel soldier is loaded aboard a ship in Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The ship will carry him and other wounded, along with hundreds of fleeing African migrants, to the eastern Libyan city of Banghazi.
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  • A wounded rebel soldier, his arm amputated, is loaded aboard a ship in Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The ship will carry him and other wounded, along with hundreds of fleeing African migrants, to the eastern Libyan city of Banghazi.
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  • A wounded rebel soldier is loaded aboard a ship in Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The ship will carry him and other wounded, along with hundreds of fleeing African migrants, to the eastern Libyan city of Banghazi.
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  • Workers in a boatyard on the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, inside the hull of a ship
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  • A man fishes in the Indian Ocean while clinging to a pole stuck in the sea bed off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The area was devastated by the 2004 tsunami, but resilient survivors have slowly rebuilt their lives with help from international aid groups. A container ship can be seen in the background.
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  • A man fishes in the Indian Ocean while clinging to a pole stuck in the sea bed off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The area was devastated by the 2004 tsunami, but resilient survivors have slowly rebuilt their lives with help from international aid groups. A container ship can be seen in the background.
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  • Workers in a boatyard on the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, inside the hull of a ship
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  • Workers in a boatyard on the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, inside the hull of a ship
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  • Fleeing Libya's civil war, one of many migrant workers from other African countries boards a ship in Misrata to take her home to Ghana, Niger, Sudan, or one of several other nearby nations. Even if not fearing for their safety, many of the migrants are leaving because the economy in Misrata, surrounded by troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi, is at a standstill.
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  • A worker for the Libyan Red Crescent helps the child of migrant workers board a ship in Misrata to take them home to Ghana, Niger, Sudan, or one of several other nearby nations. Even if not fearing for their safety, many of the migrants in Misrata are leaving because the economy of the city, surrounded by troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi, is at a standstill.
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  • Fleeing Libya's civil war, migrant workers board a ship in Misrata to take them home to Ghana, Niger, Sudan, or one of several other nearby nations. Even if not fearing for their safety, many of the migrants are leaving because the economy in Misrata, surrounded by troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi, is at a standstill.
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  • Fleeing Libya's civil war, migrant workers from other African countries prepare to board a ship in Misrata to take them home to Ghana, Niger, Sudan, and other nearby nations. Yet first they must have their luggage reviewed by Libyan rebels ostensibly looking for contraband. Even if not fearing for their safety, many of the migrants are leaving because the economy in Misrata, surrounded by troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi, is at a standstill.
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  • Fleeing Libya's civil war, migrant workers from other African countries get off a truck in Misrata's port, ready to board a ship to take them home to Ghana, Niger, Sudan, and other nearby nations. Even if not fearing for their safety, many of the migrants are leaving because the economy in Misrata, surrounded by troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi, is at a standstill.
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  • Fleeing Libya's civil war, one of many migrant workers from other African countries boards a ship in Misrata to take her home to Ghana, Niger, Sudan, or one of several other nearby nations. Even if not fearing for their safety, many of the migrants are leaving because the economy in Misrata, surrounded by troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi, is at a standstill.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-100.jpg
  • Fleeing Libya's civil war, one of many migrant workers from other African countries boards a ship in Misrata to go home to Ghana, Niger, Sudan, or one of many other nearby nations. Even if not fearing for their safety, many of the migrants are leaving because the economy in Misrata, surrounded by troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi, is at a standstill.
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  • Nevrigda Zitkova and her husband Arden Dasi, with one of their children, lived in February 2012, when this photo was taken, under a bridge in a Roma settlement in Belgrade, Serbia. Refugees from Kosovo, they survive from recycling cardboard and other materials. The families that lived here were forcibly evicted in April 2012. Many were moved into metal shipping containers on the edge of Belgrade..
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  • Ivana Ibraimovic holds her 8-month old son Rasim inside their house in a Roma settlement in Belgrade, Serbia. The families that live here, many of whom survive from recycling cardboard and other materials, are under constant threat of eviction in order to make way for new high-rise office buildings. Ibraimovic heats her house by opening the oven door on the wood-fired stove behind her. Note: residents of this settlement were forcibly evicted in April 2012, two months after this photo. Many were relocated in metal shipping containers at the edge of the city.
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  • Laura Rodriguez helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Rodriguez is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Laura Rodriguez helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Rodriguez is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Gerald Morales helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Morales is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Father Raimundo Rocha celebrates Catholic Mass held in a camp for internally displaced families located inside a United Nations base in Juba, South Sudan. The camp holds Nuer families who took refuge there in December 2013 after a political dispute within the country's ruling party quickly fractured the young nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Father Rocha, a Comboni priest from Brazil, was parish priest in Leer and had to flee into the bush for weeks with his people after armed parties attacked the town. The shipping containers behind the alter are there to provide protection from gunfire directed into the camp.
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  • Father Michael Schultheis hears confession from a man before the celebration of Catholic Mass in a camp for internally displaced families located inside a United Nations base in Juba, South Sudan. The camp holds Nuer families who took refuge there in December 2013 after a political dispute within the country's ruling party quickly fractured the young nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Schultheis, a Jesuit from the United States, has been serving as vice-chancellor of the Catholic University of Sudan. The shipping containers, piled two high, provide protection against gunfire to people in the camp.
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  • Men unload merchandise from a boat on the bank of the White Nile River in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to reenter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city. Aid workers consider the arrival of merchandise that was shipped upriver from Juba, the nation's capital, to be a sign that some economic activity is returning the the city.
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  • Men unload merchandise from a boat on the bank of the White Nile River in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to reenter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city. Aid workers consider the arrival of merchandise that was shipped upriver from Juba, the nation's capital, to be a sign that some economic activity is returning the the city.
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  • Men unload merchandise from a boat on the bank of the White Nile River in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to reenter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city. Aid workers consider the arrival of merchandise that was shipped upriver from Juba, the nation's capital, to be a sign that some economic activity is returning the the city.
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  • Desperate earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane crowd around the entrance to a center for the distribution of emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. United Nations soldiers from Argentina prevent them from entering early. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where under watch by UN soldiers it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unpack emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where under watch by United Nations soldiers from Argentina it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unpack emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where under watch by United Nations soldiers from Argentina it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unload emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where under watch by United Nations soldiers from Argentina it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Under the watch of United Nations troops from Argentina, earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unload emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Under the watch of United Nations troops from Argentina, earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unload emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Under the watch of United Nations troops from Argentina, earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unload emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • People line up for the distribution of emergency supplies by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the Haitian city of Leogane. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediaely hours to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Under the watch of United Nations troops from Argentina, earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unload emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Under the watchful eye of United Nations troops, people line up for the distribution of emergency supplies by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the Haitian city of Leogane. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediaely hours to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • A man takes down the names of people in line for the distribution of emergency supplies by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the Haitian city of Leogane. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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