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A man is rescued from the ocean.

A crowd gathers as a firefighter administers mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child for 20 minutes. Between breathes, the firefighter repeated, 'C'mon baby, breathe,' the child died.

Migrant farm workers carry the Cross of Jesus in their annual Fiesta procession. The farm owners had wanted the men to work on Sundays. But, the Mexicans' religious beliefs are so strong that they refused.

Women await their turn in the baptismal pool. The mass baptism, over 5,000 converts went to the water in one day, was held at the United House for All People in Newport News, VA.

A Salvadoran family flees the fighting in the Jucuaran Province, carrying a few belongings and the family's pig. Their escape route across the Rio Grande De San Miguel was the remnants of a bridge blown by guerrillas.

Ethiopian mother and child wait for food in Wad Sharafin camp. They are but two of the 22,000 refugees in a facility that was built for 5,000. The child died later the same day.

Berhamy, an Ethiopian refugee, sips water from a dish after giving birth at Zele Zele in Tigray Province.

A guerrilla from the Tigray People's Liberation Front crosses the cracked surface of the dried-out Gash River in Tigray Province.

An Oxfam doctor holds the hand of an emaciated baby.

A child who is too weak to shoo away flies rests on his mother's lap at a transient camp in Zele Zele.