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  • Children lay in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
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  • Children lay in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
    armenia-2006-jeffrey-31.JPG
  • Children in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
    armenia-2006-jeffrey-27.JPG
  • Their clothes neatly arranged on chairs, children lay in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
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  • Girls in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
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  • Demonstrators from the Occupy Seattle movement march through the rain at night in Seattle, Washington.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-occupy-seattle-33.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it. Here they place their candles on the ground in the shape of the ribbon which has become the universal symbol for AIDS awareness.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-380.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it. Here they place their candles on the ground in the shape of the ribbon which has become the universal symbol for AIDS awareness.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-381.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-378.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-377.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-374.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-373.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-370.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-369.jpg
  • Men play a game in the dirt in the Yusuf Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • Yarely Arellano (right) and her mother, Patricia Esquivel, ride a bus early in the morning in the Mexican city of Juarez. Esquivel accompanies her daughter to the U.S. border, where Arellano crosses into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano, 20, makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Yarely Arellano (right) and her mother, Patricia Esquivel, ride a bus early in the morning in the Mexican city of Juarez. Esquivel accompanies her daughter to the U.S. border, where Arellano crosses into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano, 20, makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-385.JPG
  • Yarely Arellano (right) and her mother, Patricia Esquivel, board a bus early in the morning in the Mexican city of Juarez. Esquivel accompanies her daughter to the U.S. border, where Arellano crosses into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano, 20, makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-382.JPG
  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-366.JPG
  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-373.JPG
  • The Milky Way rises above the summit of Little Tahoma, as Mount Rainier--also known as Mount Tahoma--rises to the west just before midnight on July 24, 2017. The headlamps of climbers can be seen on the ridge between the two peaks. The photo was captured during a 30-second exposure.<br />
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The peaks are located in Mount Rainier National Park in the U.S. State of Washington.
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  • The Milky Way rises above the summit of Mount Tahoma, also known as Mount Rainier, at 2 am on July 25, 2017. The headlamps of climbers can be seen on the slopes of the mountain. The photo was captured during a 30-second exposure.<br />
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The peaks are located in Mount Rainier National Park in the U.S. State of Washington.
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  • A night view of the city of Tegucigalpa from the Suyapa neighbourhood, behind the Basilica de Suyapa.
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  • Climate activists during a demonstration on Waterloo Bridge at night. Many of the protestors were arrested.
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  • A policewoman reads a warning under Section 14 to climate activists on Waterloo Bridge in London
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  • Stars shine at night over a village near Dedza.<br />
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World Renew supports agricultural and nutritional work in the village.
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  • 8 December 2017, Oslo, Norway: Oslo City Hall hosts the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on 9-10 December 2017. The prize in 2017 goes to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for "its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons".
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  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!' Here, Lutheran World Federation vice president for Latin America Nestor Friedrich (centre).
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  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_816...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_816...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!' Here, Lutheran World Federation delegate Erika Rodning from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_811...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!' Here, Lutheran World Federation delegate and council member Khulekani Sizwe Magwaza from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_812...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_810...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH1_892...jpg
  • Regina Bangireago cares for a pregnant woman in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She's a third-year midwifery student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-B193.jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Members of climate activist group Extinction Rebellion hold Climate Clocks counting down from seven years and 258 days' as a way of illustrating the urgency of the climate crisis, as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - march 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.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH2_544...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Members of climate activist group Extinction Rebellion hold Climate Clocks counting down from seven years and 258 days' as a way of illustrating the urgency of the climate crisis, as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - march 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.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH2_544...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Members of climate activist group Extinction Rebellion hold Climate Clocks counting down from seven years and 258 days' as a way of illustrating the urgency of the climate crisis, as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - march 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.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH2_543...jpg
  • 6 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Members of climate activist group Extinction Rebellion hold Climate Clocks counting down from seven years and 258 days' as a way of illustrating the urgency of the climate crisis, as tens of thousands of people - including environmental groups, children, youth, charities, climate activists, trade unionists and indigenous people - march 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.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211106_AH2_544...jpg
  • Demonstrators from the Occupy Seattle movement march through the rain at night in Seattle, Washington.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-occupy-seattle-32.jpg
  • A night club in Honolulu, Hawaii, advertises nude performers.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-hawaii-trafficking-...jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it. Here they have places their candles on the ground in the shape of the ribbon which has become the universal symbol for AIDS awareness.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-382.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-379.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-376.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-375.jpg
  • People infected by and affected by HIV and AIDS gather for a candlelight vigil in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, to raise public awareness of the virus and the need to end stigma and discrimination against those living with it.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-371.jpg
  • Men play cards in the Ajuong Thok Refugee Camp in South Sudan. Situated in northern Unity State, the camp hosts thousands of refugees from the Nuba Mountains, located across the nearby border with Sudan. The ACT Alliance provides a variety of services in the camp.
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  • Displaced men play dominos in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-118.jpg
  • Women play cards in the Manila North Cemetery. Hundreds of poor families live here, dwelling in and between the tombs and mausoleums of the city's wealthy. They are often discriminated against, and many of their children don't go to school because they're too hungry to study and they're often called "vampires" by their classmates. With support from United Methodist Women, KKFI provides classroom education and meals to kids from the cemetery at a nearby United Methodist Church.
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  • Jeff Florendo watches videos on his phone as he sits by the bedside of his six-month old son Charles in the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. The boy was suffering from diarrhea. <br />
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The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Jeff Florendo watches videos on his phone as he sits by the bedside of his six-month old son Charles in the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. The boy was suffering from diarrhea. <br />
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The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-514.JPG
  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, wait for a bus in the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-381.JPG
  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-363.JPG
  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-360.JPG
  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, leave their house in the predawn darkness in the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-356.JPG
  • Yarely Arellano walks home at night through a darkened neighborhood in the Mexican city of Juarez after crossing the border from the United States, where she studies at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school in El Paso, Texas. Arrelano, 20, makes the journey every school day.
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  • Yarely Arellano rides a bus in the Mexican city of Juarez as she travels home after crossing the border from the United States, where she studies at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school in El Paso, Texas. Arrelano, 20, makes the journey every school day.
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  • Yarely Arellano rides a bus in the Mexican city of Juarez as she travels home after crossing the border from the United States, where she studies at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school in El Paso, Texas. Arrelano, 20, makes the journey every school day.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-LPI-321.JPG
  • In the northeastern Sri Lankan village of Velore, a clock stopped at the moment the South Asian tsunami washed over the village. The December 26, 2004, tsunami left devastation behind along most of the island nation's coastline.
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  • Refugees from Zimbabwe and other African countries sleeping on the streets around the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa. The church is home to more than 3,000 refugees suffering from economic desperation and sporadic xenophobic attacks. Since all cannot fit into the church at night, the overflow spreads out on neighboring sidewalks.
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  • Refugees from Zimbabwe and other African countries sleeping on the streets around the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa. The church is home to more than 3,000 refugees suffering from economic desperation and sporadic xenophobic attacks. Since all cannot fit into the church at night, the overflow spreads out on neighboring sidewalks.
    south-africa-2009-jeffrey-refugees-c...jpg
  • Nurse Magdalene Ali cares for patients during the night shift at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Ali is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • A man plays dominoes in Batey Bombita, a community in the southwest of the Dominican Republic whose population is composed of Haitian immigrants and their descendents. The clothespins are used to keep track of the score. This man is losing.
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  • Boys playing cards in the Chamroen neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • The Milky Way rises above the summit of Little Tahoma, as Mount Rainier--also known as Mount Tahoma--rises to the west at 1 am on July 25, 2017. The headlamps of climbers can be seen on the ridge between the two peaks, and the faint track of a satellite can also be seen. The photo was captured during a 30-second exposure.<br />
<br />
The peaks are located in Mount Rainier National Park in the U.S. State of Washington.
    usa-2017-jeffrey-milkyway-2.jpg
  • David Matamorros, the top magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the TSE, looks at his watch. The election results, that he was responsible for delivering were three weeks late and evidence of widespread fraud were abundant.
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  • A climate activist with Extinction Rebellion is carried away by police on Waterloo Bridge one night
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  • Migrants walking before dawn from Huixtla to Pijijiapan. Thousands of people have fled Honduras and to walk together in a caravan towards the US border.
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  • Migrants walking before dawn from Huixtla to Pijijiapan. Thousands of people have fled Honduras and to walk together in a caravan towards the US border.
    Mexico_Migrant_Caravan_20181025_215.jpg
  • A Malawian farmer sits at home in the evening in a village near Dedza.<br />
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World Renew supports agricultural and nutritional work in the village.
    Malawi_Hawkey_WorldRenew_20170531_12...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_827...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_821...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_811...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20191206_AH2_810...jpg
  • 6 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based actors led by ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Council of Churches 'sound the alarm for climate justice' at COP25, through a protest where a giant alarm clock went off, followed by testimonies of people already affected by climate change, and the chant, 'What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now! Where do we want it? Everywhere!'
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  • 17 December 2016, Cairo, Egypt: In a building adjacent to the Resurrection Church at the Anaphora Institute, is a miniature model of Bethlehem at the time of Jesus. The Anaphora Institute is a Coptic Orthodox retreat and educational centre located north-west of Cairo.
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  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
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We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
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I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
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The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
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The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
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But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
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I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
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One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
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Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
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I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
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We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
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I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
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The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
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The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
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But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
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I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
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One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
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Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
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I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Silvia Maria Alvarez Rosales<br />
Tenquiscapa<br />
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I have migrated to the US seven times. The last time was a very bad experience.<br />
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At the beginning it was fun, going through Mexico. But, as soon as I got across the river into the US, it was bad. It is dangerous, you can lose everything including your life.<br />
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My feet were tired, I’d been walking three days and nights, I had injuries on my feet, my socks were stuck to my feet, I couldn’t bear it any more. That night, we were walking through forest, there were thorns, the thorns would get stuck in my skin, scratch and injure me. We could see lights way off in the distance. It was evening time, I saw a woman who’d given birth, both the woman and the baby were dead. I got scared, the guide got hold of me and covered my mouth to stop me screaming. The smuggler wasn’t bad, he left me on a road where I’d get picked up by the migration. <br />
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Migration passed by a few times before picking me up. Eventually they woke me up, I could hardly stand up, they treated my wounds. I asked for political asylum, and I was left in prison for seven months before being deported. My family thought I was dead, there aren’t any international calls. When I got back here, I got off the bus, and my father saw me and he fell down on the ground and couldn’t stop crying. <br />
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The LWF has helped me set up my own salon, they’ve helped me a lot, to buy my equipment, they’ve given me training. Now I have a job, I have no need to leave again.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • During a partial recount of votes in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, workers counting the votes were overseen by international observers. Many irregularities in the electoral process were identified by the EU and EOA observer teams and the final declaration was more than two weeks coming, during which time the computer system was said to have crashed four or five times, including once for 24 hours. Controversially, each time the computer system came back on line the results had changed in favour of Juan Orlando Hernández.
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  • During a partial recount of votes in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, workers counting the votes were overseen by international observers. Many irregularities in the electoral process were identified by the EU and EOA observer teams and the final declaration was more than two weeks coming, during which time the computer system was said to have crashed four or five times, including once for 24 hours. Controversially, each time the computer system came back on line the results had changed in favour of Juan Orlando Hernández.
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  • Rolando Herrera <br />
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My father was a police officer. He died in 2010, he was killed.<br />
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In that time Olancho was in a difficult situation. Drug trafficking had grown a lot, the authorities didn’t do anything, there was no other authority. We would walk through Juticalpa and see the traffickers controlling everything in the street. One time I saw a crowd of people and could hear people shouting, as I approached I could see that they were burning some people alive in the street, they poured petrol on them and set them on fire, in front of all the people. I don’t know what it was about. That sort of thing would happen.<br />
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Girls and women couldn’t go out, they didn’t dare to go out, so they had to close some schools, no one wanted to go to school. If a trafficker wanted a girl, he’d just take her on the street, drive her away, she might never be seen again. <br />
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To get to work, I bought a motorbike on credit, and one day the traffickers stopped me on the street, at gunpoint, and took the bike. I never saw it again, but had to carry on paying the quotas for the loan, even though I didn’t have the bike.<br />
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Most of the houses in my neighbourhood had two or three kids, we used to play on the street. Within a few years, no one played outside, and all the kids, absolutely all of the kids, became migrants and went to the US. A few of them were killed, some in front of their house, before they could leave. It became a ghost town, many houses are abandoned, some in serious disrepair, some houses had their roofs and doors removed.  To go into the area you have to drive slowly with the windows down, and report to the trafficker guards, telling them who you were going to visit. If you drive fast or with the windows up, you’ll be shot.<br />
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So, I went to the US. I was there for a while. I made two trips, the first one failed, it went bad. I went with a people smuggler. We had a guide, and we met a group of the Zetas, they killed the guide in front of us, they cut his throat and decapi
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • 7 January 2018, Imlil, Morocco: Mustafa works in a small souvenir shop in the village of Imlil, near Mount Tubkal in the Moroccan Atlas mountains. With the arrival of the first precipitation in a month’s time, he takes time to enjoy a moment in the snow. Although heavy snowfall means heavy work for the villagers in cleaning up rooftops and roads, it is also a welcome contribution, as the snow helps attract tourists to the area, as well as secure water supplies to local agriculture.
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  • Sarah Surdam and Mary Alonzo wash dishes in the kitchen of the First Step House, a project of the United Methodist Community House in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The First Step House provides transition housing for women coming out of prostitution, recovering from substance abuse, or returning from prison. Alonzo, a former prostitute who has spent time in prison, is the resident house manager. Surdam, who has battled depression, substance abuse and spent time in prison, is a resident and the assistant house manager. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Alba Tinglas: I’m from Cocovila, near Palacios in the Mosquitia. I have worked 30 years with the church in Tegucigalpa. I try to get back to the Mosquitia from time to time, to make sure that my children don’t lose a sense of their indigenous roots. World Renew has been supporting, and I hope it continues to support, there is a lot of need here. We have done a lot of useful training here. The big one for us is garden farming, agriculture, but we’ve done training in other things too. We are grateful for these opportunities. We’re ladies, but here we are working hard, producing, teaching, setting a good example. And, when people in the community are needy, we are glad to help out. That’s our aim, to go further, to help people when they are in need.
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  • José Graviel, 22, Jutiquiles<br />
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Some men wanted to rape my sister, so my mother went to the police to report them, then the men killed my mother. I was six. I don’t know my father, he’s been in prison for 17 years. I’ve been looking after my younger siblings since my mother died. I get afraid time to time, there’s still a lot of violence.  But the main reason I left was the economic situation here. Poverty. <br />
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I went on my own, no smuggler, I couldn’t afford to pay one. I was stopped by Mexican Migration, in Palenque, I was detained for three days and was sent back on a bus.<br />
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The LWF trained me as a barber, and bit by bit I’m building up clients, everyone round here comes for a haircut.<br />
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I have a girlfriend, but we can’t get married until we’ve prepared well, we want a place to live, we’re saving up. <br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • José Graviel, 22, Jutiquiles<br />
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Some men wanted to rape my sister, so my mother went to the police to report them, then the men killed my mother. I was six. I don’t know my father, he’s been in prison for 17 years. I’ve been looking after my younger siblings since my mother died. I get afraid time to time, there’s still a lot of violence.  But the main reason I left was the economic situation here. Poverty. <br />
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I went on my own, no smuggler, I couldn’t afford to pay one. I was stopped by Mexican Migration, in Palenque, I was detained for three days and was sent back on a bus.<br />
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The LWF trained me as a barber, and bit by bit I’m building up clients, everyone round here comes for a haircut.<br />
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I have a girlfriend, but we can’t get married until we’ve prepared well, we want a place to live, we’re saving up. <br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Palm Sunday in Guatemala City. The procession of Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros celebrates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, when he rode on a donkey and people placed palms on the ground before him. These processions date back to the 1780s. Bearers, known as cucuruchos, carry extremely heavy floats as a painful act of penitence, they arrive fasting and in prayer. The cortege is led by clouds of pine incense. There are moments of silence and from time to time the bands that follow the cortege play solemn music. The atmosphere is charged. 112 men carry Jesus Nazareno de los Milagros, and the cortege is followed by Mary, carried by 56 women. The procession starts at 7am and goes on til midnight, with about 120 different groups taking a turn at carrying the floats.
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  • Angie Mercado, 17, lives in El Playón, Carepa, Urabá, Colombia. She has a daughter - Nicole - of 7 months. El Playón is a highly vulnerable neighbourhood on the edge of the river that is subject to rapid erosion by the river, flooding and some houses are on the verge of collapse into the river.<br />
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"When it rains hard the river rises, the water comes quickly. There’s no time to get up and get out when a big part of the river bank drops into the river in a storm. If you are there, it can take your house and everyone who is in it. We get scared at night, we can’t sleep, I’ve had to get up when the river is bad, and run out with my daughter, I had to run out when she was just born. It’s very scary. When the riverbank collapses it makes a big noise. There were two small collapses last night, it was really loud, and the river, it’s getting closer and closer. A big collapse will take houses." <br />
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"At the same time the water supply from the municipality is broken, we don't get any water."
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  • Angie Mercado, 17, lives in El Playón, Carepa, Urabá, Colombia. She has a daughter - Nicole - of 7 months. El Playón is a highly vulnerable neighbourhood on the edge of the river that is subject to rapid erosion by the river, flooding and some houses are on the verge of collapse into the river.<br />
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"When it rains hard the river rises, the water comes quickly. There’s no time to get up and get out when a big part of the river bank drops into the river in a storm. If you are there, it can take your house and everyone who is in it. We get scared at night, we can’t sleep, I’ve had to get up when the river is bad, and run out with my daughter, I had to run out when she was just born. It’s very scary. When the riverbank collapses it makes a big noise. There were two small collapses last night, it was really loud, and the river, it’s getting closer and closer. A big collapse will take houses." <br />
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"At the same time the water supply from the municipality is broken, we don't get any water."
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