Operation Compassion was founded as an arm of the Church of God, a 127-year-old pentecostal Christian denomination also based in Cleveland, with 1 million members in the United States and 7 million around the world.

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He looks up as Jesus, his face illuminated but his body otherwise in shadow, extends his right arm in an action deliberately evoking God's to Adam on the Sistine Ceiling.

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