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  • Students from Isabella Thoburn College perform a street theater against dowry violence in a village outside Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
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  • Students from Isabella Thoburn College perform a street theater against dowry violence in a village outside Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
    india-2004-jeffrey-misc-Y57.jpg
  • Students in the village school in Mahariadi, Assam, pray before classes begin for the day. This is a Hindu community.
    india-2004-jeffrey-G16.jpg
  • Students from Isabella Thoburn College perform a street theater against dowry violence in a village outside Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
    india-2004-jeffrey-ITC-4.jpg
  • Students from Isabella Thoburn College perform a street theater against dowry violence in a village outside Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
    india-2004-jeffrey-misc-Y76.jpg
  • Students in the village school in Mahariadi, Assam.
    india-2004-jeffrey-misc-H049.jpg
  • Sister Anahid, a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, sings with students in a primary school she supervises in Dohuk, Iraq. Most of the students were displaced from their home villages when the Islamic State group took over portions of the Nineveh Plains in 2014. Because they came from communities with Arabic curriculum schools, they often don't fit well in schools in the villages where they resettled, because those schools teach in Kurdish or Assyrian. So the religious order started the school, which has students from several faiths, including Islam and Christianity. The Christian Aid Program Nohadra - Iraq (CAPNI) provides transportation for many students to Dohuk from the rural villages where their families have taken refuge.
    iraq-2017-jeffrey-capni-665.jpg
  • Students in the secondary school in Matara, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The school is sponsored by the Holy Trinity Peace Village in nearby Kuron. <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 has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Bringing youth from different tribes together in a common learning environment is seen as an important tool in building relationships that will contribute to peace.
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  • Students in the secondary school in Matara, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The school is sponsored by the Holy Trinity Peace Village in nearby Kuron. <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 has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Bringing youth from different tribes together in a common learning environment is seen as an important tool in building relationships that will contribute to peace.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-A042.jpg
  • Sister Maria Fe Divino, accompanied by student nurses Benedict Riak and Victoria Akon, reviews the chart for patient Lodovico Ilial in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Ilial suffers from malaria. The two students are studying at the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau, where Divino, who comes from the Philippines, is an instructor. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-wau-cthi-23...jpg
  • 4 November 2019, Vriginia, Liberia: Two female students work on a tablet together during recess at Ricks Institute. The Liberia Baptist Convention runs Ricks Institute, a day and boarding school for currently 496 students from kindergarten up through 12th grade. [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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  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. During the service, GETI students assisted in distributing the Eucharist. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_124...jpg
  • Candacia Greeman works with a class of students in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.<br />
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Greeman, from Guyana, is a volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee, and works in the school as a teacher trainer and helps students engage in peacebuilding and trauma healing.
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  • 26 May 2017, Berlin, Germany: Visiting the Saint Ansgar Church in Berlin, students of the Global Ecumenical Theologial Institute 2017 (GETI'17) were introduced to the community of Taizé, in France, sharing a moment of prayer. Here, Prior Frère Alois greets Ramy Hanna from Egypt, one of the GETI students. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170526_AHP_045...jpg
  • 4 November 2019, Montserrado, Liberia: Students gather to receive a hot meal during recess. Started as a school for internally displaced children during the First Liberian Civil War, Mother Tegeste Stewart Apostolic Pentecostal Mission School in Montserrado county currently teaches 486 students from kindergarten up through 12th grade. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191104_AH2_570...jpg
  • 28 March 2022, Arusha, Tanzania: A group of fifth-year students of the Bachelor in Divinity programme of the Tumaini University Makumira, a higher learning institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, attend a course session in Missiology and Ecumenism. [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-20220328_AH2_2...jpg
  • Students in an outdoor class in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. While focused on educating girls from throughout the war-torn country, the school, run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland, also educates children from nearby communities.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-H138.jpg
  • Students perform a traditional dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The girls' school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-74.jpg
  • Brother Sylvanus-Aniebiet Victor Okon, a Marist brother from Nigeria, talks to students in class at the Sabegbia Nursery and Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. Brother Sylvanus is an instructor at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute, which places students in the school for practice teaching. The STTC is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Brother Sylvanus is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B374.jpg
  • Students at Bethlehem University, a Catholic Church-sponsored school that was the first university on the West Bank.
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  • Students learn about electricity with a hand-cranked generator and light bulb in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K918.JPG
  • Young adults in a residential program for indigenous students pose in front of their cabins in Atalaia do Norte, Brazil. The program, run by an evangelical pastor, hosts indigenous young adults from throughout the Amazon region.
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  • 25 November 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: "Stop deporting people to a country that isn't safe", was the message as hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered at Medborgarplatsen in central Stockholm, to highlight Sweden's Refugee Day, and the way Swedish authorities keep persisting in deporting young people to Afghanistan. The event marked two years since November 2015, when Swedish government officials took a turn towards stricter policies for granting refugee status to asylum seekers, and so a range of civil society organizations, including faith-based organizations, now take a stand for more humane refugee policies. Here, a banner from Studenter mot Rasism ('Students against Racism").
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  • Students perform a traditional dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The girls' school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-77.jpg
  • Students from the Isabella Thoburn College take a selfie during a visit to a rural village outside Lucknow, India. The students visited the village to present a demonstration about nutrition.
    india-2019-jeffrey-itc-village-106.jpg
  • Students perform a traditional dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The girls' school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-83.jpg
  • 28 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: GETI participant James Lawson (Church of England) helps build a symbolic wall, to represent the borders that divide people in this world, during opening celebration at the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2022. Through sharing examples of moments in life when when borders have been removed and people have been brought closer together, the students then dismantle the wall to show how borders can be removed. The Global Ecumenical Theological Institute takes place in connection with the World Council of Churches 11th assembly, bringing together some 200 young and emerging ecumenical theologians and educators from a broad spectrum of Christian traditions and all eight regions of the WCC to engage with one another on critical themes of our time. The theme for GETI 2022 is 'Christ's Love (re)Moves Borders'. 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-20220828_AH1_01...jpg
  • Brother Antonio Nunes Ferreira, a Comboni missionary nurse who teaches at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan, talks with a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau as two CHTI nursing students look on. <br />
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Nunes is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups training teachers, medical personnel, and pastoral workers in the world's newest country. Solidarity sponsors CHTI.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-19...jpg
  • Students in class in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. While focused on educating girls from throughout the war-torn country, the school, run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland, also educates children from nearby communities.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-H187.jpg
  • Students do stretching exercises as they assemble at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. While focused on educating girls from throughout the war-torn country, the school, run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland, also educates children from nearby communities.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-H115.jpg
  • Students line up at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. While focused on educating girls from throughout the war-torn country, the school, run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland, also educates children from nearby communities.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-H081.jpg
  • Students perform a traditional dance at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The girls' school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-82.jpg
  • 28 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Participants at the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute build a symbolic wall, to represent the borders that divide people in this world, during opening celebration at the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2022. Through sharing examples of moments in life when when borders have been removed and people have been brought closer together, the students then dismantle the wall to show how borders can be removed. The Global Ecumenical Theological Institute takes place in connection with the World Council of Churches 11th assembly, bringing together some 200 young and emerging ecumenical theologians and educators from a broad spectrum of Christian traditions and all eight regions of the WCC to engage with one another on critical themes of our time. The theme for GETI 2022 is 'Christ's Love (re)Moves Borders'. 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-20220828_AH2_96...jpg
  • 28 March 2022, Arusha, Tanzania: A group of fifth-year students of the Bachelor in Divinity programme of the Tumaini University Makumira, a higher learning institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, attend a course session in Missiology and Ecumenism. [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-20220328_AH2_2...jpg
  • Sister Dorothy Dickson (right), a member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, greets midwifery students on the street in Wau, South Sudan. Dickson is director of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, which trains nurses and midwives in the newly independent country. The Institute is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-wau-cthi-04...jpg
  • A girl spreads her arms as she and other students sing while they gather in the morning at the Catholic Church-sponsored Abangite Nursery School in Yambio, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-77.jpg
  • Students in front of Isabella Thoburn College, a women's college in Lucknow, India.
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  • Students sing in a choir at Isabella Thoburn College, a women's college in Lucknow, India.
    india-2018-jeffrey-itc-008.jpg
  • Nursing students watch as a nurse labels a patient's blood sample in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. <br />
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The student nurses are being trained at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-20...jpg
  • A student performs rap music--while others play adoring fans--during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. <br />
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Since students don't have phones in the school, one girl is wielding a calculator as if it were the phone of an adoring fan.<br />
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The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
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  • Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and chair of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, holds one student's son as he talks with students in a class in the Catholic University in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq, on April 11, 2016.
    iraq_2016_jeffrey_erbil_411207.jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_126...jpg
  • Claudethe Ilunga teaches in elementary school class in the Uweso II neighborhood of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many students in the class receive school supplies, uniforms, scholarships and mentoring from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A540.jpg
  • Claudethe Ilunga teaches in elementary school class in the Uweso II neighborhood of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many students in the class receive school supplies, uniforms, scholarships and mentoring from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A537.jpg
  • Students outside a school classroom during a rainstorm in the Congo.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A330.jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_133...jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_109...jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_084...jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_030...jpg
  • Claudethe Ilunga teaches in elementary school class in the Uweso II neighborhood of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many students in the class receive school supplies, uniforms, scholarships and mentoring from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A546.jpg
  • Students in class at the Lupandilo Nursing School in Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The school is sponsored by the United Methodist Church.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A332.jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. Here, the Castle Church where Luther famously nailed his 95 theses to the wall, thus starting the process of the Reformation. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170529_AHP_034...jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_114...jpg
  • Liz O'Connell helps students explore a cow's heart while teaching a class in a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. O'Connell is a volunteer from Australia with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
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  • Students at St. George's Anglo-Indian School in Chennai, India, learn about HIV and AIDS during a program conducted by educators from the Madras Christian Council of Social Service.
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  • Students in a school sponsored by the United Methodist Church in the village of Wembo Nyama, DR Congo.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A072.jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_108...jpg
  • 28 May 2017, Wittenberg, Germany: On 28 May, students of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) joined tens of thousands of Christians in attending the closing service of Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Wittenberg, the place where the Reformation began 500 years ago. With a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, it was a demanding but joyful experience. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170528_AHP_030...jpg
  • An elementary school class in the Uweso II neighborhood of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many students in the class receive school supplies, uniforms, scholarships and mentoring from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A551.jpg
  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, wipes tablets clean for students to use in learning to write numbers. The nun supervises the kindergarten program in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan.
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  • Students in class in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-F057.jpg
  • Students sing during morning assembly at the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-F032.JPG
  • Students perform traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embrace a shared national identity.
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  • Students perform traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embrace a shared national identity.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D088.JPG
  • Students observe a debate in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country. The topic of the debate was women's rights in the country.
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  • Students participate in a debate in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country. The topic of the debate was women's rights in the country.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-C204.jpg
  • Students participate in a debate in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country. The topic of the debate was women's rights in the country.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-C187.jpg
  • Students participate in a chemistry lab in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-C106.jpg
  • Students learn basic agricultural practices in a class at the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-C084.jpg
  • Students eat lunch at the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
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  • Methodist Deaconess Omega Chandrashaker talks to students at the Mary A. Knotts Girls High School in Vikarabad, India, where she is an educator and hostel superintendent..
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  • Paolo Rizzetto speaks with students at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. Brother Rizzetto, an Italian physician who is a Comboni missionary, is vice principal of the institute.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches students how to listen to the heartbeat of an infant during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish and a lecturer at the CHTI, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Joana Ilario, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, helps one of her students in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
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  • Sister Nentaweh Wakger, a School Sister of Notre Dame, talks with students in a classroom at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. <br />
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Wakger, from Nigeria, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, which trains teachers and health workers from throughout the country.
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  • Students in a Catholic school in Malakal, Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Larren Jo "LJ" Bacilio, a teacher in the Alternative Learning System of the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI), walks with some of his students in the Tondo neighborhood of Manila, Philippines. <br />
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KKFI is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Students in class at the Notre Dame de Petits school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The school's building collapsed in the January 2010 earthquake, and while some classes are conducted in the ruins, other classes meet in large tents provided by International Orthodox Christian Charities.
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  • Students from the University of Mosul’s arts faculty present a play about the ISIS capture of their city during a November 30, 2018, book festival in Mosul, Iraq. The play focused on how poetry and the arts were curtailed under ISIS control but have flourished in recent months.<br />
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The red hands denotes blood on the hands of this ISIS character.
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  • Students paint ash on their faces before they perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
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  • Students perform traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embrace a shared national identity.
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  • Students present a fashion show during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
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  • Students present a fashion show during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
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  • Students perform their traditional tribal dances during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's violence-plagued newest country, encouraging them to celebrate their own tribal background while at the same time embracing a shared national identity.
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  • Students recite a poem about the rights of girls to have an education, during a cultural event in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
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  • Students observe a debate in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country. The topic of the debate was women's rights in the country.
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  • Students from the Isabella Thoburn College, a women's college in Lucknow, India, carry out a popular education program in the Nishatganj slum in Lucknow.
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  • Students pray at the beginning of class at the Lucie Harrison Girls School in Lahore, run by the Church of Pakistan.
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  • Students outside their classroom in the Southern Sudanese village of Kenyi. The school was constructed by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).  Families here are rebuilding their lives after returning from refuge in Uganda in 2006 following the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the north and south. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches anatomy to students during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish and a lecturer at the CHTI, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Nursing students work with a mannequin at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan. The Institute is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan..
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  • Sister Dorothy Dickson, a member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, explains treatment proocedures to students in the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan. Dickson is the director of the Institute, which trains nurses and midwives in the newly independent country. The Institute is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan.
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  • Students in a classroom in Malakal, Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Students in class at the John Paul II School in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Students study in the computer lab of the Loreto Girls Secondary School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
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  • Larren Jo "LJ" Bacilio, a teacher in the Alternative Learning System of the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI), talks with one of his students at his home in the Tondo neighborhood of Manila, Philippines. The boy's father is asleep in the background. <br />
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KKFI is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Students in an Alternative Learning System class, sponsored by the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI), in the Tondo neighborhood of Manila, Philippines. <br />
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KKFI is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Larren Jo "LJ" Bacilio, a teacher in the Alternative Learning System of the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI), walks with some of his students in the Tondo neighborhood of Manila, Philippines. <br />
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KKFI is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Students in class at the Notre Dame de Petits school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The school's building collapsed in the January 2010 earthquake, and while some classes are conducted in the ruins, other classes meet in large tents provided by International Orthodox Christian Charities.
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  • Girl students help each other try on new uniforms in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria. International Orthodox Christian Charities, which provided the uniforms, and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
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