A man prepares food at a South Asian mosque for the evening meal to break the day’s fast during Ramadan. In Arabic, the meal is called “Iftar.” Muslims around the world fast during Ramadan. They break the fast at the time of the evening call to prayer. Mosques offer free Iftar meals.

A Kurdish family picnics along the roadside in the mountains.

Bread of Life Baptist Church in Kozelets, Ukraine, with the help of Send Relief, gives out over 600 food packets to the community. The distribution happens every Friday. The church’s electricity is often powered by a generator donated by Send Relief. IMB Photo

Bread of Life Baptist Church in Kozelets, Ukraine, with the help of Send Relief, gives out over 600 food packets to the community. The distribution happens every Friday. The church’s electricity is often powered by a generator donated by Send Relief. IMB Photo

Ukrainian pastor Sasha and his church, Light of Life, located in Khotiv, south of Kyiv, gives out food packets with the help of Send Relief. Two hundred and thirty food packets are given out during this distribution. IMB Photo

A pallet load of sugar and flour is unloaded from a delivery truck into a warehouse. All supplies gathered here will soon be delivered to eastern Ukraine. Mike Domke, an IMB missionary, helps push the pallet into the warehouse. Through the East Ukraine Project, Send Relief is sending food and supplies to eastern Ukraine where people are in dire situations due to intense fighting on the eastern front. IMB Photo

Russ Wise, a volunteer with a Southern Baptist Disaster Response team, offers water and snacks to Ukrainian children coming across the border into Romania. Russ attends Vertical Church in Yuma, California. SBDR and Send Relief teams served Ukrainian refugees crossing the border at Siret, Romania, by handing out snacks, water and hot drinks and providing cell phone charging stations. The station was originally started by the Romanian Baptists who were some of the first to respond to those Ukrainians crossing the border after the war started. IMB Photo

A group of young Jews from the U.S. who are studying Hebrew and Judaism in Jerusalem for a year, celebrate Shabbat together with songs, prayers, food and drink. Shabbat is the Jewish name for Sabbath and is observed each week from Friday at 6 p.m. to Saturday at 6 p.m. It is taken from the ‘seventh day’ in the Torah where God rested after creating the earth. To the outsider, it might appear conservative and Orthodox Jews take this time to the extreme. Observing Shabbat might include halting any type of work—driving, cooking and cleaning. At 6 p.m., all work stops, even if they are in the middle of doing something. In traditional homes, meals are prepared in advance of Shabbat so nothing needs to be done during the day and clean up is done once it is over.

As the sun comes up along the famous Straight Street in Old Town Damascus, bakers are already hard at work to bake a day’s supply of bread, which will be all sold before noon. Damascus, Syria, is the oldest capital in the world. It has been continuously inhabited since around 2500 B.C.

The afternoon sun shines through glasses of fresh pomegranate juice that is squeezed at a street vendor’s stall during Eid al-Fitr in Old Town Damascus in Damascus, Syria. People came to the historic area of town to celebrate the three-day holiday that marks the end of Ramadan in the Muslim faith.

A young Syrian boy sells magnets that look like small fruits and vegetables during Eid al-Fitr in Old Town Damascus. People were out in the thousands to celebrate the three-day holiday that marks the end of Ramadan in the Muslim faith. Special markets open for the celebration.

A Fulani woman sifts flour at her home in south-central Togo. Fulani/Fulbe/Pul woman are know for wearing fabrics with bright colors – particularly primaries. IMB Photo

A Fulani woman sifts flour at her home in south-central Togo. Fulani/Fulbe/Pul woman are know for wearing fabrics with bright colors – particularly primaries. IMB Photo

A teenaged girl runs her maize through the grinding mill in the village of Kolinvaai, Ghana. The grain is ground multiple times to achieve a fine flour which is used to make tuo zaafi (tz), the staple food in the northern Ghana. IMB Photo

A teenaged girl runs her maize through the grinding mill in the village of Kolinvaai, Ghana. The grain is ground multiple times to achieve a fine flour which is used to make tuo zaafi (tz), the staple food in the northern Ghana. IMB Photo

A young boy walks through an outdoor market hawking kebabs made of cow stomach in Ghana. IMB Photo

A Togolese man mixes coffee for a customer at his roadside restaurant that caters to big rig drivers traveling up and down the main highway the cuts through Togo. IMB Photo

A Mamprusi woman holds up leafy vegetables she sells in the market in northern Ghana. IMB Photo

A Mamprusi woman with a baby on her back stirs tuo zafi (t.z.) in a large iron pot outside of her restaurant business in northern Ghana. IMB Photo

A woman prepares lunch inside a traditional home in the Kingdom of Bhutan.