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Daily Life, 3rd prize

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world: A woman kisses a cross on a hill where in 1981, six children claimed that the Madonna had appeared to them, giving a message of peace and asking people to return to the ways of God.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world: A nun from Kazakhstan undergoes baptism in the River Jordan.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world: Some believe that by placing your ear to the stone upon which Christ was supposedly beaten, in the Chapel of the Mocking in the Holy Sepulchre, you can hear the reverberations of the lashes.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world: Monks chant their daily prayers at the Bete Meskel chapel.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world: Pilgrims climb barefoot over the sharp shale of Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain, to say a mass in honor of St. Patrick.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world: On Good Friday, 70 men carry Christ's coffin through the village, taking one step forward and two back throughout the day and night.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world.

January 01, 1999

Christianity around the world: A hermit nun outside her cave home. The cave, just large enough to accommodate the body of its occupant, is carved into the wall of a passage leading to the church of Bete Giorgis.

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Mike Abrahams

Network Photographers

2000 Photo Contest, Daily Life, 3rd prize
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Mike Abrahams

Network Photographers

01 January, 1999

Christianity around the world: A woman kisses a cross on a hill where in 1981, six children claimed that the Madonna had appeared to them, giving a message of peace and asking people to return to the ways of God.

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