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Tokyo, Japan: Mamiko Moda (left), her partner, Satoko Nagamura, and their son, with their same-sex partnership certificate at press conference on Tuesday. Tokyo began issuing partnership certificates to same-sex couples who live and work in the capital on 1 November, a long-awaited move in a country without marriage equality

Photograph: Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP/Getty Images

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October 20, 2023: Greek Orthodox Archbishop Alexios holds a funeral prayer for Palestinians who were killed in Israeli airstrikes that hit a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

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April 2024: Harar, Ethiopia Women sing and dance during the Shuwalid festival, which is celebrated by the Harari people and marks the end of six days of fasting to compensate omissions during Ramadan Photograph: Michele Spatari/AFP/Getty Images

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Worshippers in the courtyard of the Church of Saint Porphyrius in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of the Old City of Gaza light their candles on April 15, 2023 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

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December 2023: "In Bethlehem, the city of Christ's birth, Lutherans lit advent candles around a nativity surrounded by rubble, as God's children in Gaza still are today. God sent his only Son to be with us in times of doubt, fear, and grief. God is with them in Bethlehem, He is with His children in Gaza, and He is with his children under the rubble."

Photos and text from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land

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February 2024: Pooja Sharma taking another unclaimed body to a crematorium in Delhi. She says her vocation provides her with sukoon, or tranquillity.

Pooja Sharma says a prayer as another one of the unnamed dead in India’s capital is cremated. She has performed the service for about 4,000 unclaimed bodies, mostly those of the countless migrants who come to the vast city in search of work and lose touch with their families.

Photographs: Ruhani Kaur/The Guardian

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An elderly Palestinian Christian lights a candle during mass in the Greek Orthodox Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church in the West Bank village of Aboud, November 7, 2010. UPI/Debbie Hill

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April 2024: Young Palestinian vendors sell sweets at an open market in advance of Eid al-Fitr in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, where millions of displaced Palestinians live in tent camps. [Mohammed Abed/AFP]

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August 2023: Dhaka, Bangladesh Children dressed up as Radha and Lord Krishna during the Janmashtami festival as the community marks the birth of Lord Krishna Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

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October 24, 2023: A woman takes pictures on a mobile phone as priests walk during procession for Saint Dimitrie Bassarabov, patron saint of the Romanian capital, in Bucharest, Romania. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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April 2022: Palestinians pray on Laylat al-Qadr at Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City. [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

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November 29, 2023: Quezon, the Philippines A vendor works on Christmas star lanterns at a street market Photograph: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters

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An elderly Palestinian Christian touches the cross during a procession during mass in the Greek Orthodox Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church in the West Bank village of Aboud, November 7, 2010. UPI/Debbie Hill

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August 23, 2023: A man carries an icon of Mary with Jesus as a wildfire threatens Agia Paraskevi Christian Orthodox monastery in Acharnes, a suburb of northern Athens, Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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Central to the nuns’ identity is their proficiency in martial arts. Jigme Rupa (all nuns’ names are prefixed with Jigme) uses a sword to practise her skills outside the main temple. Among the eight ‘mystical’ weapons that can be used in martial arts, Rupa says her favourite is a sword.

Photograph by Skanda Gautam

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A woman dances as she participates in a procession to mark Falgun Mahotsav ahead of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)

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