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A photo competition is to be held by the Methodist Churchs month of prayer for interfaith relations where contestants capture images that communicate something powerful about inter faith relations

Church World Service has expressed its regret after receiving news that a prominent Iraqi peace and reconciliation advocate and traumahealing specialist was killed in December The Christian humanitarian agency described the death of Dr Alharith Abdulhameed Hassan a 56yearold Iraqi Muslim and professor of psychiatry at the University of Baghdad as a tragic loss

A roundup of new jazz releases.