Portrait of a Syrian refugee in southeastern Turkey. IMB Photo

Portrait of a young South Asian girl.

A Syrian father holds his daughter just outside the walls of one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world.

Portrait of two North African boys in a neighborhood in Spain.

Teenagers skateboard and bike in a new park in the middle of a city in Northern Africa.

Medical volunteer Anna Leigh Breedlove plays with a toddler in the pediatric ward of the Baptist Medical Centre of Nalerigu, Ghana. Healthcare missions gives access to the unreached, allows for intimate conversations, meets needs, makes disciples and empowers the church. IMB Photo

Men pray facing the Western Wall, also known as the ‘Wailing Wall,’ by outsiders because Jews gather here to mourn the loss of their temple that sits on the other side of the wall. The wall is a permanent place of worship for Jews and is their holiest site for prayer. The Western Wall Plaza, the large open area that faces the Western Wall, functions as an open-air synagogue that can accommodate thousands of worshipers.

Portrait of young Syrian boys in Damascus, Syria.

Two women wearing niqabs, veils worn by Muslim women that cover all of the face except the eyes, talk as one holds her child.

A young Syrian boy sells magnets that look like small fruits and vegetables during Eid al-Fitr in Old Town Damascus. People were out in the thousands to celebrate the three-day holiday that marks the end of Ramadan in the Muslim faith. Special markets open for the celebration.

A boy bows to pray in Umayyad Mosque that sits in the heart of the ancient city of Damascus, Syria. The sacred spot where the mosque was built has served as a place of worship for over three millennia. Temples, mosques and churches have all been built on this site and later destroyed as different rulers came into power. In the late fourth century, a church dedicated to John the Baptist was built in place of a massive temple to Jupiter that was built by the Romans in the first century A.D. Inside the present-day mosque is a shrine of John the Baptist, Prophet Yahia to Muslims, where tradition holds that the head of John is buried.

A girl sits and watches as men pray in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. The sacred spot where the mosque was built has served as a place of worship for over three millennia. Temples, mosques and churches have all been built on this site and later destroyed as different rulers came into power. In the late fourth century, a church dedicated to John the Baptist was built in place of a massive temple to Jupiter that was built by the Romans in the first century A.D. Inside the present-day mosque is a shrine of John the Baptist, Prophet Yahia to Muslims, where tradition holds that the head of John is buried.

A boy reads the Quran in the Umayyad Mosque that sits in the heart of the ancient city of Damascus, Syria. The sacred spot where the mosque was built has served as a place of worship for over three millennia. Temples, mosques and churches have all been built on this site and later destroyed as different rulers came into power. In the late fourth century, a church dedicated to John the Baptist was built in place of a massive temple to Jupiter that was built by the Romans in the first century A.D. Inside the present-day mosque is a shrine of John the Baptist, Prophet Yahia to Muslims, where tradition holds that the head of John is buried.

Two Egyptian boys walk through the courtyard of the Amr ibn Al-Aas Mosque in Old Cairo, Egypt. This mosque is said to be the first mosque built on the African continent.

Medical volunteer Anna Leigh Breedlove plays with a toddler in the pediatric ward of the Baptist Medical Centre of Nalerigu, Ghana. Breedlove is a physician assistant student from Alabama who came to work alongside an IMB medical missionary for two months through the IMB’s Global Health Initiative. IMB Photo

Medical volunteer Anna Leigh Breedlove plays with a toddler in the pediatric ward of the Baptist Medical Centre of Nalerigu, Ghana. Breedlove is a physician assistant student from Alabama who came to work alongside an IMB medical missionary for two months through the IMB’s Global Health Initiative. IMB Photo

A Ukrainian woman cares for her child. IMB Photo

Portrait of a Ukrainian teenager and his younger brother in the basement of the Baptist Seminary of Poland in Warsaw. The seminary has been receiving, sheltering and feeding refugees who have left their war-torn nation. IMB Photo

Portrait of two Ukrainian boys in the basement of the Baptist Seminary of Poland in Warsaw. IMB Photo

Portrait of a Ukrainian girl with her violin. Millions of Ukrainian refugees have fled their homeland to safety in neighboring Eastern European nations. Many leave their homes with only what they can carry. Some bring their most prized possessions, like this young girl’s violin. She and her family have been staying in the basement of the Baptist Seminary of Poland and are leading worship services with their fellow refugees. IMB Photo