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Sister Sinaieye Kondile instructs a group of choir girls to practice in the week preceding the church Mgidi, an annual thanksgiving ceremony, at the New St John’s Apostolic Church of Prophecy in Grahamstown, South Africa, August 30, 2015. The Mgidi is held in the first week of September, and involves seven days of devout prayer and church attendance before the final celebratory ceremony. Photo: Jane Berg.