Last year in pictures. www.kairosphotos.com/blog/a-year-...

"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless." - Isaiah 10:1-2

Happy No Kings Day!

My story on the aftermath of Juan López's murder, and what his legacy can mean for the church in Honduras.

Finally, an authentic Pope Leo quote. He said this today in Rome.

A story about "Methodist -Quaker nuns" isn't something you stumble across often. Yet I found two such women in a remote corner of Honduras. Here's their story. new.express.adobe.com/webpage/HkZL...

On World Press Freedom Day, instead of talking about Gaza or Myanmar and the challenges that journalists face there every day, let's talk about the United States under Trump, where Pam Bondi is talking about executing reporters who dare criticize our Dear Leader. hartmannreport.com/p/theyre-com...

What's the opposite of woke?

After Trump announced today that he wants to be pope, my 3-year-old grandson announced his candidacy. “I want to show the world that we can stay awake and continue Francis’ focus on environmental justice and mercy toward migrants,” he said. “I also think the Popemobile would be fun to drive.”

At his funeral today, the final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

My article on deportees arriving back in Honduras. www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/ch...

Trump's market manipulation convinced me to start selling these action figures as a way to raise money for my grandson's college fund. But the deal I arranged with a factory run by penguins in Antarctica fell through when tariffs made that contract too expensive.

Big crowd turned out for the "Hands Off" pro-democracy demonstration in Salem, Oregon, on April 5, 2025. Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.

Israel's war on Gaza has killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

Pro-democracy demonstration today in Eugene, Oregon.

With Duterte behind bars in The Hague, here's an article I wrote in December about the courageous Filipina women who put him there. It was published just before his arrest. uwfaith.org/latest-news/...

After years of struggle to dismantle impunity, led by courageous Filipina women whose family members were assassinated in the so-called "war on drugs," Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested after the ICC indicted him.

The White House explicitly excluded AP and Reuters from the Zelensky meet, but allowed in a reporter from TASS, the Russian state-owned news agency. The WH later claimed he "snuck into" the Oval Office uninvited. Anyone can sneak into the Oval Office, right? #Krasnov

Ethnic cleansing meets AI. Trump's new Gaza video would make Leni Riefenstahl blush.

Among the casualties of Trump's USAID freeze is screening for cervical cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in Africa. Talk about a waiver for humanitarian programs is misdirection. People are dying. (Nurse Moureen Mbise screens a woman in a hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.)

I captured this image at a pro-democracy march on Monday, not knowing that by Wednesday it would become prescient.

Jasmina Jahic gets help with her prosthetic arm from her 5-year-old son Eldar in Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She lost an arm a leg to a landmine during the Bosnian War. The U.S. has long been the largest donor to the never-ending task of removing landmines and UXO. Until Trump came along.

My favorite sign at a pro-democracy demonstration today in Eugene, Oregon.

Richard Chamangawa, a refugee from the DR Congo, plays a homemade adungu in the Makpandu refugee camp in South Sudan. The 12-year-old boy made his utilizing an empty can that had contained vegetable cooking oil provided to his family by USAID, the relief arm of the U.S. government. USAID is no more.

Tendai Nyamkondiwa accompanies her niece, Ngonidzashe Rondozai, on the street where they live in Harare, Zimbabwe. Rondozai, 17, has cerebral palsy and uses an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with funding from USAID--the program Trump has killed.

Sitting on a vegetable oil can provided to his family by USAID, a boy studies in a makeshift school in a camp for displaced families in Zalingei, in the Darfur region of Sudan. In refugee camps around the world, the cans, when empty, are often repurposed as “chairs” which children take to school.

A boy displaced by war eats Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in Riimenze, South Sudan. RUTF is a fortified peanut butter paste used to treat severe acute malnutrition. It's made at a plant in the state of Georgia and distributed by USAID, which bought $200 million of RUTF last May. No more.

An Argentine priest in the Philippines who pioneered healing and treatment for drug users--instead of extrajudicial killings--has died way too soon. Here's my story on Luciano Feloni from eight years ago.

And when they came for the Lutherans, I did nothing . . .

My story on migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong and two United Methodists who stand up for them. (Best seen on a computer, not a phone.) #HongKong #migrants #migrantworkers

Here's a story of mine from today about a Filipino priest who serves as a chaplain to migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong.

Today is Epiphany, a moment in the Christian calendar when we remember those wise guys who refused to obey in advance and resisted an insecure tyrant who sought power through lies and intimidation.

When desperate refugees arrived on Lesbos in 2015, this man was often in the picture. A Greek fisherman who lived near the beach, day and night he waved boats to a safe landing and then carried the children to shore. In the coming months of deportations and hate, may we find the courage to be him.

This year's a wrap. Grizzly bears, the Pope gets my photo, and training the next James Bond. Pix from the year past. www.kairosphotos.com/blog/a-year-...

When leaders of the World Methodist Council met with Pope Francis on Monday, they talked about their common commitment to help refugees. They presented him with my photo of women in South Sudan who have returned home after years of displacement, walking home after a day in their reclaimed fields.

“We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do.”

Rick Steves nails it. "The most frightened people are the people who have never traveled." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...

Advent = waiting. Yet it's nice when someone makes waiting more fun. Example: In this 2008 photo, Rahman Aidi Mashoof, an Iraqi refugee himself, helps refugee children laugh while they and their families wait to be registered at a UNHCR office in Douma, Syria.

It's a complicated moment for religious minorities in Syria. A worshipper lights candles in St. Paul's Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Damascus. File image by Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.

I photograph migration. These are migrating Vaux's swifts entering a chimney in Eugene, Oregon. We can see the trajectories of #birds in flight by extracting individual frames from high-speed video, then combine them into one image file, allowing us to "see" something our eyes alone can't visualize.

I'm thinking today of the Syrian refugees whose lives I documented over the years in countries around the world. Although the future remains troubled and uncertain, my heart goes out to the millions of Syrians who fled repression and war. For the first time in years, they have some measure of hope.

I take pictures of migration. Here's a migrating Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) jumping up a waterfall on Lake Creek, a tributary of the Siuslaw River in western Oregon.

I was in Hebron in September, was turned back twice at Israeli checkpoints. Had to sneak in through the cemetery like a zombie. An inconvenience for me as a journalist, but for the residents of Hebron, Israeli control is arbitrary and violent. That's the point. www.btselem.org/publications...

“If we abandon the people when they are suffering the crucifixion, how can we speak credibly about Resurrection?” - Maura Clarke

It's the first Sunday in Advent, when we ponder what it means to wait. In the northern Indian village of Mursan, Hindu women sit in a train station, waiting for a relative to arrive. #waiting #Advent

My banner image is from Silwan, a neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The eyes are part of an international public art project in support of Silwan’s longstanding fight against dispossession by Israeli officials.

Two images from a week of work in the Philippines. Estrella Nonay holds a picture of her son Bernard, gunned down by a government-sponsored death squad in 2018. And Marvie Misolas, a Maryknoll Sister who heads a comprehensive program to reforest part of the Sierra Madre east of Manila.