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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A nurse holds a face mask in her hands as she sits in the pews during a moment of prayer in the chapel of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis.
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  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: A sign gives instructions on the use of face masks in public transport, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • 30 October 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: 'Together for our planet', reads a United Nations banner on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, one of the main shopping streeets, as the city is about to host the UNFCCC Climate Change conference COP26. Underneath, a woman walks by wearing a face mask as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, in response to what since 2020 has been a global pandemic.
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  • 30 October 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: 'Together for our planet', reads a United Nations banner on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, one of the main shopping streeets, as the city is about to host the UNFCCC Climate Change conference COP26. Underneath, a woman walks by wearing a face mask as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, in response to what since 2020 has been a global pandemic.
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  • 30 October 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: 'Together for our planet', reads a United Nations banner on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, one of the main shopping streeets, as the city is about to host the UNFCCC Climate Change conference COP26. Underneath, a woman walks by wearing a face mask as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, in response to what since 2020 has been a global pandemic.
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  • Namagero Rose, a South Sudanese refugee from the Kuku ethnic group, serves as chairwoman for a God’s Grace self-help group for women in Palorinya. Offering a safe space for women to counsel each other and heal from their trauma as survivors of war, Rose says the group has helped many women to feel better.  “Some of us had even attempted suicide. But with counselling, we saw that peace could come to our hearts,” she says, while stressing nonetheless the fragility of the current situation for many refugees. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • Namagero Rose, a South Sudanese refugee from the Kuku ethnic group, serves as chairwoman for a God’s Grace self-help group for women in Palorinya. Offering a safe space for women to counsel each other and heal from their trauma as survivors of war, Rose says the group has helped many women to feel better.  “Some of us had even attempted suicide. But with counselling, we saw that peace could come to our hearts,” she says, while stressing nonetheless the fragility of the current situation for many refugees. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group dance and sing as they gather at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group dance and sing as they gather at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group dance and sing as they gather at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group dance and sing as they gather at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nyandeng Lual, Dinca refugee from South Sudan, is a woman affairs leader in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: A woman works at a sewing machine at a women's self-help group in Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani, Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: A woman works at a sewing machine at a women's self-help group in Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani, Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: ACT Alliance general secretary Rudelmar Bueno de Faria (centre) and World Council of Churches deputy general secretary Prof. Isabel Apawo Phiri (right) visit aid workers from AIDRom at the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries.
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: ACT Alliance general secretary Rudelmar Bueno de Faria (centre) and World Council of Churches deputy general secretary Prof. Isabel Apawo Phiri (right) visit aid workers from AIDRom at the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries.
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: World Council of Churches deputy general secretary Prof. Isabel Apawo Phiri (right) greets aid workers from AIDRom at the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: Margaret Konga, a South Sudanese refugee from the Kuku ethnic group holds her child in her arms as she speaks at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: Margaret Konga, a South Sudanese refugee from the Kuku ethnic group holds her child in her arms as she speaks at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group - lead by Margaret Konga (centre) - dance and sing as they gather at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group dance and sing as they welcome visitors to the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group dance and sing as they gather at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 14 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Lidija Tselsdorf, Head of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Catherine in Kyiv pictured by a set of supplies packed and ready to be shipped to communities in need of humanitarian aid because of the ongoing war in Ukraine. The church of Saint Catherine is one of the congregations of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, a member church of the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: School director Luidmyla Kutchovera pictured in a room where renovation is underway at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured by the road outside what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that eventually ensued on the road outside her building (pictured here). Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured by the road outside what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that eventually ensued on the road outside her building (pictured here). Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Olena Buturlym, mayor of Ichnya pictured in a room where renovation is underway at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16.
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  • 10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Bhoj Khanal, Lutheran World Federation team leader for Ukraine, seated at the Tarasa Shevchenko Boulevard.
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  • 19 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Olga Buzenovska (48) came to Poland as a refugee from Voznesensk in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine in March 2022. Today, she lives with her husband, daughter and granddaughter in a dormitory at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland parish in Bytom, where she also works as a cleaner to earn an income. In Ukraine, Olga worked in sales at a bakery and bread factory. In the church dormitory, each part of the family has their own room, and they share a kitchen and playing room for children in the building’s basement with a couple of other refugee families. Olga’s two sons stayed in Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion, which started in February 2022. One of them has died in battle.
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  • 19 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Olga Buzenovska (48) came to Poland as a refugee from Voznesensk in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine in March 2022. Today, she lives with her husband, daughter and granddaughter in a dormitory at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland parish in Bytom, where she also works as a cleaner to earn an income. In Ukraine, Olga worked in sales at a bakery and bread factory. In the church dormitory, each part of the family has their own room, and they share a kitchen and playing room for children in the building’s basement with a couple of other refugee families. Olga’s two sons stayed in Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion, which started in February 2022. One of them has died in battle.
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  • 23 May 2022, Taganrog, Russia: Yury, a refugee from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, speaks to a visiting delegation from the World Council of Churches and the ACT Alliance at the Kotlostroitel Children’s Wellness Centre ”Sunny” in the village of Krasnydesant, near Taganrog in southwest Russia, which following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February serves as temporary accommodation for refugees from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine — most of them women, children and elderly people. While the refugees receive Russian state support for accommodation and meals, the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) also accompany them, providing spiritual and psychosocial support, as well as processing and responding to individual or more specific requests or needs expressed by the refugees.
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  • 23 May 2022, Taganrog, Russia: Luydmila, a refugee from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, is among a group of refugees staying at the Kotlostroitel Children’s Wellness Centre ”Sunny” in the village of Krasnydesant, near Taganrog in southwest Russia, which following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February serves as temporary accommodation for refugees from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine — most of them women, children and elderly people. While the refugees receive Russian state support for accommodation and meals, the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) also accompany them, providing spiritual and psychosocial support, as well as processing and responding to individual or more specific requests or needs expressed by the refugees.
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  • 23 May 2022, Taganrog, Russia: Father Evgeny Osyak of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), head of the department for church charity and social service at the Rostov-on-Don Diocese smiles as he greets a woman and child at the Kotlostroitel Children’s Wellness Centre ”Sunny” in the village of Krasnydesant, near Taganrog in southwest Russia, which following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February serves as temporary accommodation for refugees from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine — most of them women, children and elderly people. While the refugees receive Russian state support for accommodation and meals, the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) also accompany them, providing spiritual and psychosocial support, as well as processing and responding to individual or more specific requests or needs expressed by the refugees.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: Deacon Marios Andreou of the Church of Cyprus distributes Holy Communion to a young congregant, as Sunday service is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: Deacon Marios Andreou of the Church of Cyprus distributes Holy Communion to a congregant, as Sunday service is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 15 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prod. Dr Ioan Sauca stands by the altar, as Sunday service is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.
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  • 12 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: His Eminence Metropolitan Dr Vasilios of Constantia and Ammochostos of the Church of Cyprus leads the service holding a cross decorated with an icon of the resurrection, as a Feast of Saint Epiphanius - one of the patron saints of the Church of Cyprus - is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to study, discuss and reflect on the main theme of the WCC 11th Assembly, "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity" from an Orthodox perspective. Discussions also center around current global challenges and how the Orthodox agenda at the WCC 11th Assembly can keep dialogue open.
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  • 12 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: Feast of Saint Epiphanius - one of the patron saints of the Church of Cyprus - is celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint George, Church of Cyprus, in Paralimni. The service is attended by participants in an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly that brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to study, discuss and reflect on the main theme of the WCC 11th Assembly, "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity" from an Orthodox perspective. Discussions also center around current global challenges and how the Orthodox agenda at the WCC 11th Assembly can keep dialogue open.
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  • 11 May 2022, Paralimni, Cyprus: World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca and other participants gathered in the chapel of Agia Anna, as an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to study, discuss and reflect on the main theme of the WCC 11th Assembly, "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity" from an Orthodox perspective.  <br />
Discussions also center around current global challenges and how the Orthodox agenda at the WCC 11th Assembly can keep dialogue open.
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  • 29 march 2022, Dodoma, Tanzania: Deputy Minister for Health in the Government of Tanzania Dr Godwin Oloyce Molel.
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  • 29 march 2022, Dodoma, Tanzania: Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt, in Dodoma, Tanzania.
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  • 29 march 2022, Dodoma, Tanzania: Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt, in Dodoma, Tanzania.
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  • 29 march 2022, Dodoma, Tanzania: Christian Council of Tanzania director of investment and legal affairs Beatrice Dengeneza gives a presentation at the CCT offices in Dodoma.
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  • 3 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: Sunday service at the Macedonia church in Palorinya refugee settlement, West Nile area of northern Uganda. Following the eruption of war in South Sudan, the Diocese of Kajo-Keji in the country’s Central Equatoria State, decided to move with some 350 congregants to seek refuge in neighboring Uganda. The diocese is since hosted under the auspices of the Diocesan office of the Anglican Church in Moyo, Uganda, and is able to continue to gather and worship as a congregation in the Palorinya settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • Namagero Rose, a South Sudanese refugee from the Kuku ethnic group, serves as chairwoman for a God’s Grace self-help group for women in Palorinya. Offering a safe space for women to counsel each other and heal from their trauma as survivors of war, Rose says the group has helped many women to feel better.  “Some of us had even attempted suicide. But with counselling, we saw that peace could come to our hearts,” she says, while stressing nonetheless the fragility of the current situation for many refugees. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: Teak wood farmer Arumadri Adinan pictured by a group of trees he has planted with support from the Lutheran World Federation in the Palorinya refugee settlement in the West Nile area of northern Uganda. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 2 April 2022, Obongi district, Uganda: Lutheran  Midwife Gladys Adania serves at the Iboa Health Centre, Obongi district of northern Uganda, where the Lutheran World Federation in collaboration with Medical Teams International provide support to refugee children and mothers.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt dresses up to enter a construction site of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre where she is to join Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Presiding Bishop Dr Fredrick Shoo in unveiling a foundational stone for what is to become a hostel for cancer patients to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the ELCT. Having to undergo medical treatment for a long time, many cancer patients of the KCMC are known to struggle with accommodation during the period of their treatment. Particularly for children, even if the treatment itself is offered for free, offering accommodation is necessary to enable them to complete their treatment. To remedy this, the KCMC is undertaking the construction of a hostel for cancer patients, planned to offer a total of 60 rooms. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt dresses up to enter a construction site of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre where she is to join Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Presiding Bishop Dr Fredrick Shoo in unveiling a foundational stone for what is to become a hostel for cancer patients to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the ELCT. Having to undergo medical treatment for a long time, many cancer patients of the KCMC are known to struggle with accommodation during the period of their treatment. Particularly for children, even if the treatment itself is offered for free, offering accommodation is necessary to enable them to complete their treatment. To remedy this, the KCMC is undertaking the construction of a hostel for cancer patients, planned to offer a total of 60 rooms. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Hospital chaplain Rev. Lyimo of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, introduces to Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt a prayer carved into a large stone at the KCMC compound. The stone cites a prayer by the late Bishop Dr Stefano Moshi for the foundation of the KCMC decades ago.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre executive director Prof. Dr Gileard Masenga speaks in the hospital chapel during a moment of prayer. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis.
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: A group of Dinca refugee women from South Sudan pass the time at a women's self-help group in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt joins a moment of prayer at the chapel of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis.
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Tailor Scovia Maia works at her shop in the Nyumanzi settlement in Adjumani. 28-year-old tailor Scovia Maia offers up dresses and other crafted items for sale. A refugee from Nimule in South Sudan, Maia says she arrived in Nyumanzi in 2017 with skills but no tools to build a business. “Now, with help from the LWF and UNHCR, I am running a small-scale business, and I train others in tailoring too. I sleep well, and I can eat good food,” she says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.
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  • 1 April 2022, Adjumani, West Nile area of Northern Uganda: Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt meets with Taban Peter, Resident District Commissioner in Adjumani, West Nile area of northern Uganda.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Presiding Bishop Dr Fredrick Shoo together with hospital staff and other colleagues gather around a  foundational stone at a construction site for what is to become a hostel for cancer patients to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the ELCT. Having to undergo medical treatment for a long time, many cancer patients of the KCMC are known to struggle with accommodation during the period of their treatment. Particularly for children, even if the treatment itself is offered for free, offering accommodation is necessary to enable them to complete their treatment. To remedy this, the KCMC is undertaking the construction of a hostel for cancer patients, planned to offer a total of 60 rooms.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Presiding Bishop Dr Fredrick Shoo together with hospital staff and other colleagues gather around a  foundational stone at a construction site for what is to become a hostel for cancer patients to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the ELCT. Having to undergo medical treatment for a long time, many cancer patients of the KCMC are known to struggle with accommodation during the period of their treatment. Particularly for children, even if the treatment itself is offered for free, offering accommodation is necessary to enable them to complete their treatment. To remedy this, the KCMC is undertaking the construction of a hostel for cancer patients, planned to offer a total of 60 rooms.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Accompanied by Lutheran World Federation Vice-President for the Africa region Rev. Dr Jeannette Ada Maina (left) and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre executive director Prof. Dr Gileard Masenga (right), Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt (mid-left) enters a construction site at the KCMC together with Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Presiding Bishop Dr Fredrick Shoo (mid-right) where they are to unveil a foundational stone for what is to become a hostel for cancer patients to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the ELCT. Having to undergo medical treatment for a long time, many cancer patients of the KCMC are known to struggle with accommodation during the period of their treatment. Particularly for children, even if the treatment itself is offered for free, offering accommodation is necessary to enable them to complete their treatment. To remedy this, the KCMC is undertaking the construction of a hostel for cancer patients, planned to offer a total of 60 rooms. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis.
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  • 1 April 2022, Adjumani, West Nile area of Northern Uganda: Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt meets with Taban Peter, Resident District Commissioner in Adjumani, West Nile area of northern Uganda.
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  • 10 March 2022, Záhony, Hungary: Vice principal Katalin Kádos of what used to be a high-school, and which is now a temporary centre for accommodation for incoming refugees from Ukraine. A town of some 3,500 residents, Záhony has become a key border crossing for Ukrainians going to Hungary, particularly by train. Záhony residents support incoming refugees in a variety of ways, and a local high school has been repurposed to serve as a temporary centre for accommodation with a capacity for 250 refugees, as they pass through the town on their way onward into Hungary or other neighbouring countries. Following the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, more than 200,000 people have crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary, to seek refuge from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation.
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  • 6 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Oberkirchenrat Michael Martin of the Bavarian Church in Germany (EKD) attends as on 6 March, hundreds of people gather for a charity concert organised at the Lutheran church at Deák tér in Budapest, to mobilise support for the work for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary in the past few days — fleeing the atrocities of war, since Russia military forces began its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
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  • 14 March 2022, Pozdišovce, Slovakia: Bishop Peter Mihoc of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia (Eastern district) places his hands on congregants' heads while sharing a blessing during Sunday service in Pozdišovce, Slovakia. Pozdišovce is the closest to the Ukrainian border of all the church’s congregations, and so the church here plays a key role in supporting incoming refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine into Slovakia. Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, close to 200,000 Ukrainians have come to seek refuge in Slovakia. The Lutheran church is taking a leading role in hosting and providing support to incoming refugees, both immediately at the border, and medium to long-term by arranging accommodation and shelter, providing food and other support needed.
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  • 14 March 2022, Pozdišovce, Slovakia: Bishop Peter Mihoc of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia (Eastern district) places his hands on congregants' heads while sharing a blessing during Sunday service in Pozdišovce, Slovakia. Pozdišovce is the closest to the Ukrainian border of all the church’s congregations, and so the church here plays a key role in supporting incoming refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine into Slovakia. Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, close to 200,000 Ukrainians have come to seek refuge in Slovakia. The Lutheran church is taking a leading role in hosting and providing support to incoming refugees, both immediately at the border, and medium to long-term by arranging accommodation and shelter, providing food and other support needed.
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  • 14 March 2022, Pozdišovce, Slovakia: Local pastor Rev. Denisa Vargová distributes holy communion during Sunday service in Pozdišovce, Slovakia. Pozdišovce is the closest to the Ukrainian border of all the church’s congregations, and so the church here plays a key role in supporting incoming refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine into Slovakia. Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, close to 200,000 Ukrainians have come to seek refuge in Slovakia. The Lutheran church is taking a leading role in hosting and providing support to incoming refugees, both immediately at the border, and medium to long-term by arranging accommodation and shelter, providing food and other support needed.
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  • 14 March 2022, Pozdišovce, Slovakia: A woman prays during Sunday service at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pozdišovce.
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  • 6 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) speaks to oberkirchenrat Michael Martin as on 6 March, hundreds of people gather for a charity concert organised at the Lutheran church at Deák tér in Budapest, to mobilise support for the work for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary in the past few days — fleeing the atrocities of war, since Russia military forces began its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
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  • 18 March 2022, Bucharest, Romania: AIDRom staff welcome a delegation from the ACT Alliance and the World Council of Churches visiting the AIDRom office in Bucharest.
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  • 12 March, 2022, Veľký Slavkov, Slovakia: Jana Kovalcikova manages a repurposed youth centre in Veľký Slavkov, now hosting refugees coming into Slovakia from Ukraine. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have crossed the border into Slovakia in search of refuge, and many are being hosted by local parishes around Slovakia, until they can find more permanent accommodation.
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  • 12 March, 2022, Poprad, Slovakia: 34-year-old Andrej Jarovi is one among a couple of families staying in a repurposed parsonage belonging to the Poprad Lutheran Church, opened up by the local parish as a way of offering accommodation to incoming refugees from Ukraine. Andrej and his mother fled from their home in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine following the Russian invasion of the country. While the family wanted to stay and were long incredulous to the possibility of a war being immanent, when Russian missiles hitting the city started destroying houses in their own neighbourhood, they realised they had to flee. With support from the Red Cross, they made it to Vyšné Nemecké, the border crossing connecting Slovakia with the city of Uzhgorod in Ukraine, and found refuge in Slovakia.
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  • 12 March, 2022, Poprad, Slovakia: Rev. Michal Findra serves at Poprad Lutheran Church, one of many churches now working to accommodate refugees from Ukraine, following the Russian invasion of the neighbouring country.
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: ACT Alliance director of programs Thorsten Göbel visits the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries.
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: ACT Alliance general secretary Rudelmar Bueno de Faria visits the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries.
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  • 18 November 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: Isaiah Toroitich attends the United Nations climate change conference COP27 as head of global advocacy for the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • 18 November 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: Isaiah Toroitich attends the United Nations climate change conference COP27 as head of global advocacy for the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • 14 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Lidija Tselsdorf, Head of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Catherine in Kyiv. The church of Saint Catherine is one of the congregations of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, a member church of the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • 14 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Lidija Tselsdorf, Head of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Catherine in Kyiv. The church of Saint Catherine is one of the congregations of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, a member church of the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • 14 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Lidija Tselsdorf, Head of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Catherine in Kyiv. The church of Saint Catherine is one of the congregations of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, a member church of the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • 14 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Lidija Tselsdorf, Head of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Catherine in Kyiv. The church of Saint Catherine is one of the congregations of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, a member church of the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured outside what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured in the doorway to what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured in the doorway to what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured in what used to be the children's room in her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Behind her are visible damage to the walls, caused by shots from fighting nearby. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Olena Buturlym, mayor of Ichnya pictured in a room where renovation is underway at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured outside what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured outside what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured outside what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: School director Luidmyla Kutchovera visits an underground bomb shelter undergoing renovation at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: School director Luidmyla Kutchovera visits an underground bomb shelter undergoing renovation at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: School director Luidmyla Kutchovera pictured in a room where renovation is underway at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Olena Buturlym, mayor of Ichnya pictured in a room where renovation is underway at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Olena Buturlym, mayor of Ichnya pictured in a room where renovation is underway at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: School director Luidmyla Kutchovera pictured in a room where renovation is underway at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: School director Luidmyla Kutchovera pictured in her office. The Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16 — is empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency.
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  • 10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Lutheran World Federation team leader Bhoj Khanal visits the street of Vulytsya Tereshchenkivsʹka in central Kyiv, which hours earlier was hit by a Russian missile. In the morning of 10 October, 75 Russian missiles were reported to have been fired at cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv.
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  • 10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Journalists gather to document as Ukrainian military and others work to seal off the street on Tarasa Shevchenko Boulevard, outside the Ministry of Education and Science, as a missile hit the site hours earlier. Here, Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko gives interviews with international media onsite. In the morning of 10 October, 75 Russian missiles were reported to have been fired at cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv.
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  • 10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Lutheran World Federation team leader Bhoj Khanal visits the street of Vulytsya Tereshchenkivsʹka in central Kyiv, which hours earlier was hit by a Russian missile. In the morning of 10 October, 75 Russian missiles were reported to have been fired at cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv.
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  • 19 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Olga Buzenovska (48) came to Poland as a refugee from Voznesensk in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine in March 2022. Today, she lives with her husband, daughter and granddaughter in a dormitory at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland parish in Bytom, where she also works as a cleaner to earn an income. In Ukraine, Olga worked in sales at a bakery and bread factory. In the church dormitory, each part of the family has their own room, and they share a kitchen and playing room for children in the building’s basement with a couple of other refugee families. Olga’s two sons stayed in Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion, which started in February 2022. One of them has died in battle.
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  • 5 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Oikoumene Pasifika, a group composed of young singers and musicians from the Pacific, employs song and dance inspired by Pacific traditions to celebrate creation and relationships during a thematic plenary focused on ’Affirming the Wholeness of Life’, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. The assembly is held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
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  • 5 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Oikoumene Pasifika, a group composed of young singers and musicians from the Pacific, employs song and dance inspired by Pacific traditions to celebrate creation and relationships during a thematic plenary focused on ’Affirming the Wholeness of Life’, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. The assembly 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-20220905_AH2_31...jpg
  • 5 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Oikoumene Pasifika, a group composed of young singers and musicians from the Pacific, employs song and dance inspired by Pacific traditions to celebrate creation and relationships during a thematic plenary focused on ’Affirming the Wholeness of Life’, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. The assembly 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-20220905_AH2_31...jpg
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