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Date(s): January 18, 2005. Album by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA. Photos by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA. 1 - 70 of 70 Total.
enlarge 90KB, 640x426 1 DSC 0729 I rushed to get this shot as we left Karaikal ("The Hotel Paris"), not realizing that just up the road we would be seeing dozen of boats tossed about like bath toys.
enlarge 47KB, 640x426 2 DSC 0731 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Trinity Church, the Rev. Richard Anbunathan, pastor.
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enlarge 41KB, 426x640 4 DSC 0734 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Trinity Church, the Rev. Richard Anbunathan, pastor. Church housing has been opened to families displaced by the waves and to disaster relief workers. One such temporary resident is a Muslim police officer. She comes every morning for prayer and a blessing from the pastor. It helps her do what she needs to do that day.
enlarge 39KB, 639x426 5 DSC 0735 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. The Rt. Rev. Dr. T. Aruldoss, Bishop of the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church, and his wife, Mrs. Hepzibah Regina.
enlarge 33KB, 640x426 6 DSC 0736 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. The Rt. Rev. Dr. T. Aruldoss, Bishop of the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church, and his wife, Mrs. Hepzibah Regina.
enlarge 33KB, 640x426 7 DSC 0736 1 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. The Rt. Rev. Dr. T. Aruldoss, Bishop of the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church, and his wife, Mrs. Hepzibah Regina.
enlarge 67KB, 639x426 8 DSC 0738 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Trinity Church, the Rev. Richard Anbunathan, pastor. Church housing has been opened to families, like this one, displaced by the waves and to disaster relief workers.
enlarge 67KB, 640x426 9 DSC 0739 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Trinity Church, the Rev. Richard Anbunathan, pastor. Church housing has been opened to families, like this one, displaced by the waves and to disaster relief workers.
enlarge 67KB, 640x426 10 DSC 0742 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Trinity Church, the Rev. Richard Anbunathan, pastor. Church housing has been opened to families displaced by the waves and to disaster relief workers.
enlarge 75KB, 640x426 11 DSC 0743 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Trinity Church, the Rev. Richard Anbunathan, pastor. The custom in India is to keep shoes on when entering homes, but to remove them when entering a church.
enlarge 28KB, 426x640 12 DSC 0747 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Trinity Church, the Rev. Richard Anbunathan, pastor. Church housing has been opened to families displaced by the waves and to disaster relief workers.
enlarge 51KB, 640x426 13 DSC 0748 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. The tsunami caused incredible destruction in this urban fish market: 500 bodies recovered, more than 200 children. The 40' to 60' fishing vessels were tossed like bath toys by the 20' high waves, thrown over two-story buildings.
enlarge 57KB, 640x426 14 DSC 0749 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. The tsunami caused incredible destruction in this urban fish market: 500 bodies recovered, more than 200 children. The 40' to 60' fishing vessels were tossed like bath toys by the 20' high waves, thrown over two-story buildings.
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enlarge 84KB, 640x426 29 DSC 0773 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Government temporary housing being constructed. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA
enlarge 54KB, 640x426 30 DSC 0774 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. The tsunami caused incredible destruction in this urban fish market: 500 bodies recovered, more than 200 children. The 40' to 60' fishing vessels were tossed like bath toys by the 20' high waves, thrown over two-story buildings. Note the water mark on the building. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA
enlarge 41KB, 426x640 31 DSC 0775 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. The tsunami caused incredible destruction in this urban fish market: 500 bodies recovered, more than 200 children. The 40' to 60' fishing vessels were tossed like bath toys by the 20' high waves, thrown over two-story buildings. Note how high the water level was on this building. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA
enlarge 53KB, 640x426 32 DSC 0776 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. What are these tsunami survivors looking for as they sift through this smouldering pile of trash? Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA
enlarge 72KB, 640x426 33 DSC 0778 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Women who have lost their home and possesions wait outside their shelter. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA
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enlarge 51KB, 640x426 53 DSC 0797 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Waiting in another line. The lines we observed were amazingly orderly. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA.
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enlarge 47KB, 426x640 56 DSC 0800 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. This man is a Dalit, a member of the lowest caste. Dalits faced discrimination before and now after the disaster. Eighty percent of the Lutherans in India are Dalit. One-third of of Indian population is Dalit--more than that U.S. population. There are 35 million Christians in the country, about 2.4 percent. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA.
enlarge 62KB, 640x426 57 DSC 0801 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA.
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enlarge 65KB, 640x426 66 DSC 0812 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Bags of clothes being distributed by the Communist Party. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA.
enlarge 43KB, 426x640 67 DSC 0814 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Sarela, a Roman Catholic and nursery school worker, tells that nine children from the school died in the tsusami, although she says "all the children are affected" by death and destruction. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA.
enlarge 42KB, 640x426 68 DSC 0815 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Sarela, a Roman Catholic and nursery school worker, tells that nine children from the school died in the tsusami, although she says "all the children are affected" by death and destruction. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA.
enlarge 47KB, 426x640 69 DSC 0817 Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Sarela, a Roman Catholic and nursery school worker, tells that nine children from the school died in the tsusami, although she says "all the children are affected" by death and destruction. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA.
enlarge 66KB, 640x426 70 DSC 0825 On the way out of Nagapattinam, India, 1/18/05. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift/ELCA.
