Encountered a unique juxtaposition in a small church in northern Sri Lanka, in the zone that hosted a civil war for decades.
Do you see the tarp the ladies are standing on? UNHCR is the acronym for United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
There is a wall at the UN building in New York that quotes Isaiah 2:3-4 which speaks about turning swords into ploughshares.
These families in Sri Lanka were recently living in shelters covered with these tarps, as refugees from the war. Now they are returning to land and homes that were devastated, trying to rebuild. One aspect of their rebuilding involves gathering for Christian worship. The tarps are hauled along as mats for sitting upon the ground. Recycling...
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