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Brother George, of the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Alfred, Maine, is a man at peace with himself and with the world. Since his retirement as an instructor at the brothers' teaching institute, his job has been to care for and sell the apples…

A woman sits on her step waiting for the Pope to come by. In her window is a photograph of the Pope.

Pilau Bidong, a mile-square island off the eastern coast of Malaysia, was the home for 35,000 Vietnamese boat people. Crowded into a camp only forty-three acres large, these refugees were waiting to learn whether they would be allowed to join the…

U.S. Navy vessel assists in the rescue of 322 Vietnamese refugees from the waters of the South China Sea near the Philippines.

Crowd of boat people milling on a beach.

In the first weeks of the civil war, two of the homeless tried to relax in the sweltering midday heat of one of Managua's refugee centers. Because of the overcrowding, many of the refugees, like these two girls, had to sleep in fly-infested areas…

Photograph of a mother and child.

The man, Sot, was a soldier in Cambodia and knew he was marked for death. His wife had just given birth to their first son. They decided to flee for their lives. They were spotted by Khmer Rouge soldiers and when they tried to escape the firing…

Gaunt, glassy-eyed and possessionless, they crouch in the heat amid thousands of others, hungry and diseased. They stoop over small, dry plots of rockhard soil. And they wait. They wait in tight lines for hours to get today's ration of food from…

Refugees in the Cambodian camp of Samet Meanchey wait outside a small tent as some of their leaders negotiate with relief agency officials about leaving for Thailand refugee camps. The people did not want to leave the camp, they were afraid of the…