Stories: Germany
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‘Our Second Mother’: Iran’s Converted Christians Find Sanctuary in Germany
On a breezy Sunday morning, 17 Christian converts are being baptized into a Berlin congregation just in time for Christmas. The yellow, stained-glass windows, situated high enough to catch the sun’s beams, are glowing. The old wooden pews creak as more people, Bibles in hand, shuffle in to take a seat. Pastor Gottfried Martens, in an emerald green-colored...
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Iran’s Oppressed Christians
I met Mori in the basement of a Lutheran church in Berlin’s Zehlendorf district. A 28-year-old refugee who once ran a small business in Iran, he converted to Christianity five years ago and spoke to me on condition that I use only his first name in order to protect his identity. In 2011, delayed on the way to a...
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Apply for IRP’s New Media Journalists Trip to India by Dec. 10!
Application deadline: December 10, 2012 In 2013 the IRP will offer three separate reporting trips of 8 to 10 days each for US and international new media journalists to report on important global health and development issues in one country. The first of those trips will be to India on February 17-27, 2013. Priority for these trips will be given to...
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Apply Now for IRP’s New Media Fellowships in 2013
Application deadline: December 7, 2012 In 2013, the IRP will offer up to six year-long reporting fellowships to influential journalists and media figures who are actively engaged in the new media landscape, using new media and multimedia tools, with strong ties to a social media community, in order to support reporting projects on issues related to health, development, and innovation in the...
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Apply Now for Two New Media Grants!
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for two new kinds of global reporting grants in 2013. For the first time in IRP’s history, each of these two new fellowship programs will be open to non-US media professionals as well as to US citizens. In addition to these two new programs,...
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Staying Connected on the Road
Staying connected to the internet while traveling, particularly in less developed countries, can be a challenge. Hotel WiFi may work sporadically, or not at all; using a smartphone while visiting another country is prohibitively expensive; and a failed connection always seems to happen at the worst possible time. Staying connected can be challenging in developed countries as well. For example,...