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Students at the Quang Son Daycare Center in Ninh Thuan Province, Viet Nam. The daycare center serves children who are ethnic minorities in the area, as well as children with disabilities.

Notre-Dame cathedral after the fire in Paris. Sections of the cathedral were under scaffolding as part of extensive renovations. (16 April 2019)

The Federation of World Peace and Love (FOWPAL) spreads the message and energy of love and peace through an elegant peacock dance at a gala dinner in celebration of the first International Day of Conscience, Friday, April 5, 2019, in Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze, President of the Federation of World Peace and Love (FOWPAL), right, and Mr. Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona, the fifth President of Trinidad and Tobago, exchange ideas on love and peace before launching the International Day of Conscience at the World Leader Summit of Love and Peace, Friday, April 5, 2019, at United Nations in Vienna. (Michael Gruber/AP Images for the Federation of World Peace and Love)

A team of young ladies from FOWPAL, with long swords in their hands, presented a powerful and yet elegant sword dance, conveying love, kindness, courage, and tenderness.

The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, meeting in Port Louis (Mauritius), has decided to inscribe traditional Korean wrestling, ssirum/ssireum, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, on the basis of a joint application by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.

Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze, president of the Federation of World Peace and Love (FOWPAL), rings the Bell of World Peace and Love at the United Nations Headquarters for the first time at the World Leader Summit of Love and Peace, hosted by FOWPAL during the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on October 1, 2018. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for Federation of World Peace and Love)

Pictured from left: Dr. Babafemi Badejo, Founder/CEO of Yintab Strategy Consults; Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze, President of the Federation of World Peace and Love (FOWPAL); Ms. Anna Tibaijuka, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations; and Mr. Abdalla Abbas Hamad, Advisor to the Court of H.R.H. the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, join hands to change the world with conscience, love, and positive energy at the World Leader Summit of Love and Peace at the United Nations Headquarters in New York during the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 28, 2018. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for the Federation of World Peace and Love)

The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Manama since 24 June under the chair of Shaikha Haya Bint Rashed al-Khalifa of Bahrain, inscribed two cultural sites in Germany and Turkey as well as two mixed (i.e. both cultural and natural) sites in Canada and Colombia, on the World Heritage List on July 1. The inscription of sites will continue on 2 July.