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  • A woman translates into sign language during an April 27, 2014, worship service at the United Methodist Women's Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky.
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  • People converse using American Sign Language before a worship service at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
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  • 29 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Sign language interpretation taking place during a joint opening prayer for pre-assemblies to the WCC 11th Assembly. The 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches is held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • A sign at the entry to the St. Thomas Primary School in the Holy Trinity Peace Village in Kuron, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Bringing children from different tribes in one school, where English is the common language, is one element of the peacebuilding. Children from the Jie, Murle, Dinka, Nuer, Madi, Katiko, Acholi and Toposa tribes attend the school.
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  • Betty Ostrom provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Ostrom is a member of Pine Castle United Methodist Church in Orlando.This image is a double exposure.
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  • A sign placed outside a military post in Veemankaman, Sri Lanka, preaches forgiveness after the country's bloody civil war.
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  • A woman translates into sign language during the United Methodist Women Assembly 2018 in Columbus, Ohio.
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  • A government-erected sign prohibits rebuilding within 40 meters of the waterfront in Tacloban, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda.
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  • A sign states that residents are not without hope in Tanauan, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. ACT Alliance member agencies are working in Tanauan and throughout the affected region to help people recover and rebuild in the wake of the massive storm.
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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A woman from ACT Church of Sweden holds a sign reading 'Act Now for Climate Justiice' as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' 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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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl holds a sign reading 'Climate change has to stop now', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' 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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  • Melinda Powell directs a deaf sign choir during a worship service at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
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  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Lutheran World Federation youth delegate to COP26 Nora Antonsen from the Church of Norway carries a sign reading 'Creation - Not for Sale', as she joins tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - in marching through Glasgow city centre on Saturday, calling for climate justice and for world leaders to address the climate emergency. 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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  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Climate activist Greta Thunberg marches with a sign reading 'Fridays for Future', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' 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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  • A demonstrator at an Occupy Seattle demonstration in Seattle, Washington, holds a sign supporting the restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act --  the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separated investment banks from commercial banks.
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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. Here, a sign of the interreligious project "Goda grannar" ('Good Neighbours').
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  • A woman holds a sign during a July 20, 2010, human rights march through the streets of Vienna, Austria, during the XVIII International AIDS Conference.  The theme of the conference was "Rights here, right now." Yet much of the conversation at the conference was cuts in international AIDS spending and the effects of that on treatment and care programs around the world.
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  • Pamela Taylor stands by a sign she erected to protest the construction of the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Taylor's home, outside Brownsville, Texas, is being stranded outside the wall, which she and other critics believe is being constructed not to control illegal immigration but rather to enrich politically-connected construction companies.
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  • A woman holds a sign at a June 7, 2020, Black Lives Matter protest in Eugene, Oregon. Participants protested the murder of George Floyd and other African-Americans by police. Most protesters wore masks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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  • A member of United Methodist Women holds a sign during a May 17, 2018, public witness at the state capitol in Columbus, Ohio, where she and hundreds of other United Methodist Women urged the state legislature to pass a bill requiring a fair living wage. The demonstration came on the eve of the 2018 Assembly of United Methodist Women.
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  • This boy holds a sign amid hundreds of Seattle residents who marched from Westlake Center Park to the Seattle Center on January 13, 2013, calling for stricter regulations of firearms. Sponsored by a network of churches and other groups called "Stand-up Washington," the demonstrators called for a state ban on semi-automatic weapons as well as stricter gun laws.
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  • A participants holds a sign during a demonstration against gun violence in the March For Our Lives in San Francisco, California, March 24, 2018.
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  • Elizabet Ramirez Avendaño teaches sign language to Felipe de Jesus Piña Alonso, a 6-year old deaf boy, during a class at Piña Palmera, a center for community based rehabilitation for people living with disabilities in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Elizabet Ramirez Avendaño celebrates with a high five while teaching sign language to Felipe de Jesus Piña Alonso, a 6-year old deaf boy, during a class at Piña Palmera, a center for community based rehabilitation for people living with disabilities in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • A woman translates into sign language during an April 27, 2014, worship service at the United Methodist Women's Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky.
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  • A woman translates into sign language during an April 27, 2014, worship service at the United Methodist Women's Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky.
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  • A woman translates into sign language during an April 27, 2014, worship service at the United Methodist Women's Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-umw-assembly-336.jpg
  • 5 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: A young girl (left) holds a sign reading 'Climate change has to stop now' and another girl holds a sign reading 'Planet not profit', as under a 'call to #UprootTheSystem', Fridays for Future mobilized tens of thousands of people from all walks of life in a climate strike in Glasgow on 5 November - Youth and Public Empowerment Day at COP26 - 'seeking to address ecological and social crises at their roots by placing most affected people and areas at the center of the struggle and struggling for a society that places people and planet over profit.' Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211105_AH1_024...jpg
  • A woman translates into sign language during an April 27, 2014, worship service at the United Methodist Women's Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-umw-assembly-334.jpg
  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A group of congregants sing a hymn in sign language as Sunday service gathers several hundred congregants in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A group of congregants sing a hymn in sign language as Sunday service gathers several hundred congregants in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A sign language interpreter leads a group of congregants in song during Sunday service in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • A sign at Pratibha says 'Your safety mean the safety of your family'. The plant is run on international standards for Health and Safety and satisfies the Fairtrade guidelines and conditions. Another sign says "Photography and Videography Prohibited".<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A group of congregants sing a hymn in sign language as Sunday service gathers several hundred congregants in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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.]
    Tanzania-2022-Hillert-20220327_AH2_1...jpg
  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A sign language interpreter leads a group of congregants in song during Sunday service in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • The Sign Choir from Lovers Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, signs a hymn during evening worship at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida.
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  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas.This image is a double exposure.
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  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas.This image is a double exposure.
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  • People singing using American Sign Language during a worship service at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
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  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. This image is a double exposure.
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  • Betty Ostrom provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Ostrom is a member of Pine Castle United Methodist Church in Orlando.This image is a double exposure.
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  • Betty Ostrom provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Ostrom is a member of Pine Castle United Methodist Church in Orlando. This image is a double exposure.
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  • Mary E. Harris provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Harris is a member of Conway United Methodist Church in Orlando. This image is a double exposure.
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  • People singing using American Sign Language during a worship service at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
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  • People singing using American Sign Language during a worship service at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
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  • People singing using American Sign Language during a worship service at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
    usa-texas-2015-jeffrey-dallas-disabi...jpg
  • Mary E. Harris provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Harris is a member of Conway United Methodist Church in Orlando.This image is a double exposure.
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  • 8 November 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: Sign at the venue of the United Nations climate change conference COP27 reading 'COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt 2022'. [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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  • 14 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A sign reads 'Azovstal - Free Mariupol Defenders' in central Kyiv on 14 October, when Ukraine marks Defender's Day. [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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  • 17 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Sign leading the way to the entrance to a Lutheran World Federation multi-purpose cash assistance centre in Bytom, Poland, located at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland parish in Bytom. [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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  • 14 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A sign reads 'Azovstal - Free Mariupol Defenders' in central Kyiv on 14 October, when Ukraine marks Defender's Day. [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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  • 29 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: The Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay speaks to the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network during a gathering on the eve of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe. A sign language interpreter can be seen in the background.<br />
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Pillay was recently elected as the WCC's general secretary, the ninth person elected to head the ecumenical body since its founding in 1948. He takes office later in 2022. <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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  • 29 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: The Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay speaks to the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network during a gathering on the eve of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe. A sign language interpreter can be seen in the background.<br />
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Pillay was recently elected as the WCC's general secretary, the ninth person elected to head the ecumenical body since its founding in 1948. He takes office later in 2022. <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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  • 29 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Sign language interpretation of the WCC 11th Assembly theme song - Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity - takes place during a joint opening prayer for pre-assemblies to the WCC 11th Assembly. The 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches is held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 22 May 2022, Moscow, Russia: Sign shows arriving and departing trains, as people make their way to the train at Kazansky railway station. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 22 May 2022, Moscow, Russia: Sign reading 'To trains' at the entrance to the Kazansky railway station. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 22 May 2022, Moscow, Russia: Sign shows arriving and departing trains, as people make their way to the train at Kazansky railway station. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 23 May 2022, Taganrog, Russia: Road sign to the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, pictured west of Taganrog in the Rostov-Oblast region of Russia. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 23 May 2022, Taganrog, Russia: Road sign to the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, here pictured in the Rostov-Oblast region of Russia. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 23 May 2022, Taganrog, Russia: Sign stating the name of the town 'Taganrog' in the Rostov region, Russia. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prod. Dr Ioan Sauca (centre) makes the sign of the cross by the altar, as Sunday service is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 28 March 2022, Arusha, Tanzania: A woman provides simultaneous interpretation of a sermon into sign language during morning devotion at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania offices in Arusha, Tanzania. [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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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: 'On air' sign indicating whether a live broadcast is underway or not at Radio Voice of the Gospel in Tanzania, a programme of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. [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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  • 10 March 2022, Záhony, Hungary: A woman holds a name sign as she awaits Ukrainian refugees arriveing at the train station in Záhony, Hungary. A town of some 3,500 residents, Záhony has become a key border crossing for Ukrainians going to Hungary, particularly by train. Záhony residents support incoming refugees in a variety of ways, and a local high school has been repurposed to serve as a temporary centre for accommodation with a capacity for 250 refugees, as they pass through the town on their way onward into Hungary or other neighbouring countries. Following the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, more than 200,000 people have crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary, to seek refuge from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Fredrick Konor from Ghana holds a sign saying 'Can I help?' at Nyugati station in Budapest, where he helps newly arrived African students coming to Hungary from Ukraine find their way. A Budapest residence, Fredrick speaks Hungarian and is therefore able to help bridge the language barries many otherwise face upon arrival in Budapest. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: An aid worker holds up a sign offering support to newly arrived Ukrainian refugees at Nyugati station in Budapest. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: 'Free transport and housing' reads a sign at Nyugati station in Budapest. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: A sign reads 'Free transport + housing' followed by an arrow pointing out directions at Nyugati station in Budapest. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: 'Free Food, clothes, Health care' reads a sign 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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  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: 'Please keep in mind the others' reads a sign 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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  • 10 March 2022, Záhony, Hungary: A woman holds a name sign as she awaits Ukrainian refugees arriveing at the train station in Záhony, Hungary. A town of some 3,500 residents, Záhony has become a key border crossing for Ukrainians going to Hungary, particularly by train. Záhony residents support incoming refugees in a variety of ways, and a local high school has been repurposed to serve as a temporary centre for accommodation with a capacity for 250 refugees, as they pass through the town on their way onward into Hungary or other neighbouring countries. Following the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, more than 200,000 people have crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary, to seek refuge from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • Betty Ostrom provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Ostrom is a member of Pine Castle United Methodist Church in Orlando. This image is a double exposure.
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  • Betty Ostrom provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Ostrom is a member of Pine Castle United Methodist Church in Orlando. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-32.jpg
  • Mary E. Harris provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Harris is a member of Conway United Methodist Church in Orlando. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-30.jpg
  • Angie Liston provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Liston is a member of Morrison United Methodist Church in Leesburg, Florida. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-29.jpg
  • Angie Liston provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Liston is a member of Morrison United Methodist Church in Leesburg, Florida.This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-27.jpg
  • Angie Liston provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Liston is a member of Morrison United Methodist Church in Leesburg, Florida. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-26.jpg
  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-24.jpg
  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas.This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-22.jpg
  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-18.jpg
  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas.This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-16.jpg
  • Betty Ostrom provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Ostrom is a member of Pine Castle United Methodist Church in Orlando.This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-14.jpg
  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas.This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-15.jpg
  • Michelle Menefee provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Menefee is a member of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-11.jpg
  • Angie Liston provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Liston is a member of Morrison United Methodist Church in Leesburg, Florida.This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-09.jpg
  • Betty Ostrom provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Ostrom is a member of Pine Castle United Methodist Church in Orlando. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-07.jpg
  • Mary E. Harris provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Harris is a member of Conway United Methodist Church in Orlando. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-06.jpg
  • Angie Liston provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Liston is a member of Morrison United Methodist Church in Leesburg, Florida.This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-01.jpg
  • Angie Liston provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. Liston is a member of Morrison United Methodist Church in Leesburg, Florida. This image is a double exposure.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-asl-03.jpg
  • Women hold a sign at a church-sponsored women's peace rally in Juba, South Sudan.
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  • A boy holds a sign at a church-sponsored women's peace rally in Juba, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-misc-121.jpg
  • A girl uses sign language in a class for deaf students in the school at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
    usa-texas-2015-jeffrey-dallas-disabi...jpg
  • A girl uses sign language in a class for deaf students in the school at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
    usa-texas-2015-jeffrey-dallas-disabi...jpg
  • A girl uses sign language in a class for deaf students in the school at Lover's Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
    usa-texas-2015-jeffrey-dallas-disabi...jpg
  • A woman holds a sign during a march celebrating International Women's Day on March 8, 2016, in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. The sign reads, "Let's make the 106th Women's Day a success."
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  • A sign outside the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • 29 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: The Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay speaks to the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network during a gathering on the eve of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe. A sign language interpreter can be seen in the background.<br />
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Pillay was recently elected as the WCC's general secretary, the ninth person elected to head the ecumenical body since its founding in 1948. He takes office later in 2022. <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."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-82...jpg
  • 29 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: The Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay speaks to the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network during a gathering on the eve of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe. A sign language interpreter can be seen in the background.<br />
<br />
Pillay was recently elected as the WCC's general secretary, the ninth person elected to head the ecumenical body since its founding in 1948. He takes office later in 2022. <br />
<br />
The WCC Assembly takes place August 31 to September 8 under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-82...jpg
  • 29 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Sign language interpretation takes place during a joint opening prayer for pre-assemblies to the WCC 11th Assembly. The 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches is held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    Germany-2022-Hillert-20220829_AH2_00...jpg
  • 22 May 2022, Moscow, Russia: Sign shows arriving and departing trains, as people make their way to the train at Kazansky railway station. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
    Russia-2022-Hillert-20220522_AH2_807...jpg
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