In a cheering presentation of between confidence empathy, a German church has made its ways for Muslims with no spot to go to Friday prayers during Ramadan.

Although the nation suspended religious services back in March as a means of curbing the COVID-19 outbreaks, they recently started allowing worshippers to gather in groups of up to 50 people at a time.

The Dar Assalam mosque in the Neukölln district of Berlin can typically accommodate up to 1,000 worshipers at a time during the month of Ramadan, but due to the new social restrictions, hundreds of German Muslims have been struggling to find a place of prayer.

Thankfully, the nearby Martha evangelical church—located just a few miles away from the mosque offered to open its doors to host the Friday prayers.

The church has now reportedly been offering two different prayer services for the Islamic worshipers, one in German and one in Arabic. Worshipers are asked to wear masks and maintain 6 feet distance during the prayer.

Representatives of Dar Assalam say that the events have helped them to double the amount of people attending their services while simultaneously raising valuable funds to support the mosque during the lockdowns.

“It is a great sign of solidarity,” mosque spokesperson Juanita Villamor told Newsweek. “We are just thankful, this is a good chance of inter-religious dialog and it is wonderful that the church is doing this.”

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As flowers bloom and the weather warms for the coming of spring, photographers from all over the world were asked to capture the essence of the season in an international photography contest—and the finalists are all dazzling.

The contest was held by Agora: a free-to-use photography app with a global community of more than 3.5 million users from 193 countries.

Their most recent competition for the World’s Best Photos of Spring 2020 garnered more than 14,500 entries from around the world.

“Spring is the symbol of life and rebirth in all civilizations, a time when seeds come to life and flood our beloved Earth with colors,” said Agora CEO and co-founder Octavi Royo. “Through Agora, we get the opportunity to discover the best images of this wonderful period of the year—enjoy the show!”

This striking photo of a group of Vietnamese lily pad harvesters was voted the winner of the competition after the photographer, Tran Quang Quy, beat finalists from 19 other countries around the world.

“With this photo, I wanted to show the beauty of Vietnamese culture to the world,” said Quy, who was rewarded $1,000 for his winning photograph. “This group of friends were all wearing an ‘Ao Dai’, Vietnam’s national garment.
“This outfit is inseparable from the image of Vietnamese women, both within Vietnam and beyond its borders, and especially at official ceremonies, conferences, and weddings,” he continued. “In this poetic setting with blooming flowers floating on the river, the authentic bamboo bridge symbolizes the connection between the past and the present.”

Although Quy’s photo was declared the winner by Agora’s online photography community, several other breathtaking entries from Vietnam were nominated as finalists as well.

Meanwhile in Italy, photographer Mary Bassani managed to capture a snapshot of a peaceful-looking fox that almost seemed to be smiling as it sat among a field of tall lavender.
“I was photographing blue magpies, and suddenly this beautiful red fox appeared from the bushes,” said Bassani. “The fox is one of my favorite animals and I never imagined seeing it in these circumstances, surrounded by lavender flowers. It was an exciting day.”

One of the competition’s Greek photographers, Iro Kiorapostolou, managed to capture the moment that a honeybee moved to pollinate a sunflower in Pentapoli Serres.

In another heartwarming photo from Vietnam, photographer Nguyen Huu Thong captured two young girls smiling at each other as they sat side by side, carrying on their backs huge baskets filled with yellow flowers.

“They had spent the afternoon picking these beautiful flowers that would be used for medicinal purposes in their tribe,” said the photographer. “Their lovely faces and beautiful smiles made me appreciate the moment.”
If you want to check out more of the competition finalists, be sure and visit the Agora Spring 2020 contest page.

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The Amsterdam design firm Studio Drift launched another unique edition of their spectacular drone light show this time presenting a red heart beating in the sky as a tribute to healthcare workers.

The dynamic aeronautical model highlights 300 sparkling, self-sufficient Intel Shooting Star Drones, which have been customized to emulate the conduct of a murmuration of starlings in the sky.

The unchoreographed display is accomplished thanks to finely-tuned algorithms. Each drone acts and reacts in real-time to its network.

The Studio Drift light show performed to music was also showcased by the Kennedy Space Center last year (sans red heart) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

The performance above the Dutch city on May 5 was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Liberation Day, marking the end of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands.

At the end of the 15-Toward the finish of the 15-minute light show, the feature of the night charmed observers as the automatons met up to frame a splendid red 3D heart noticeable all around, which beating in time, as though it were pulsating.

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