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 | The Forgotten Heart of Africa
While Chad, Sudan and the DRC attract regular media attention the Central African Republic (CAR) seems to be completely forgotten.
This country, the size of France, suffers from a decade long civil war. More than a 100 thousand people have fled the violence in their villages. They live virtually unprotected in the bush.
Travel is extremely difficult due to the constant violence and banditry throughout... see more » | | |  | The Forgotten Warriors
While Phoenix is still sleeping shrouded in the semidarkness, a group of men, women and children are preparing to celebrate a pow-wow on this april sunday. They put on their magnificent traditional outfits, decorated with feathers, jingles and beeds. In Phoenix, Arizona, on the land that is theirs, Indians from all tribes are honouring their deads and their veterans. On the verge of the 60th anniversary... see more » | | |  | The Orthodox Easter
Syros, Archbishop of the Cycladic Islands, commemorates Holy Week,
Megali Evdomada.
Orthodox liturgies lead the people in commemorating the events of Holy
Week, from Christ’s sentencing to the Resurrection. It is a week of
catharsis, preparing worshippers to receive the New Light, a symbolic
victory of life over death, and the Purification of the old world.
From the Sunday before Easter,... see more » | | |  | The School of Hope
On March 17, 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India, where he established the Tibetan government in exile. On May 17, 1960, Thubten Ninji, the Dalai Lama’s emissary, returned from the Jammu encampment with 51 children. The Dalai Lama then established “ the first day-care for refugee children” fully supported by her sister Jetsun Pema since 1964. Eleven years later, this initiative... see more » | | |  | Tibet is Dying
For some years now Tibetan
society has been going through an important period of change which can
be seen most of all in the capital city of Lhasa. A new face of Tibet is emerging. Consumerism, which
was brought in and spread by the Chinese invaders who even now are
trying to make this state assimilate as much as possible the Chinese
culture, has turned the Tibetans attention away from the spiritual
values... see more » | | |  | Tibetan Monks Diaspora
The Tibetan Diaspora number is estimated at up to 150,000 refugees...
Based on 11 trips to Dharamsala, India & Tibet between 1999 and 2016. "Tibetan Diaspora Monks" is part of the greater Tibet Land of Exile Project.
Patricio Estay, inspired by his experience as a political exiled and by his meeting with Henri Cartier Bresson in 1986 in Paris, started Tibet Land Of Exile,... see more » | | |
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