Photos of the Week: Bun Festival; Billy Graham statue

By Kit Doyle · May 17, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes an annual Hong Kong Bun Festival, a new sculpture of the Rev. Billy Graham in Statuary Hall and more. People take part in a bun snatching competition during the annual Bun Festival on Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The annual festival has Taoist origins. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) Worshippers burn paper offerings at a temple during the Bun Festival on Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) A child is hoisted up as participants take part in the Piu Sik Parade during the Bun Festival on Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Thousands of local residents and tourists flock to the outlying island in Hong Kong to celebrate the local bun festival, which features a parade with children dressed as deities floated on poles above the crowd. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) Maria Galindo, wearing a bishop mitre with information regarding a priest accused of pedophilia, takes part in a protest organized by the Mujeres Creando feminist association who are demanding the convictions of priests accused of sexually abusing minors, outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) Iraqi Shiites pray at a mosque in Kufa, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil) A newly unveiled bronze sculpture of the Rev. Billy Graham at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of Graham's native North Carolina, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, speaks after unveiling a bronze sculpture of his father in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina, May 16, 2024. Known as America’s pastor, Graham died in 2018 at age 99. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) Buddhists pray during a service to celebrate Buddha's birthday at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Buddhists visit temples across the country to celebrate the Buddha's birthday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Buddhists carry lanterns and walk in a parade during the Lotus Lantern Festival, ahead of the birthday of Buddha at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) Buddhist monks wait for a lantern parade ahead of the upcoming birthday of Buddha at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) The Rev. Ken Barner stands next to the tornado-damaged steeple of Crossroads Ministries Church in the parking lot, Monday, May 13, 2024, in Finleyville, Penn. (RNS photo/Kathryn Post) A portrait of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, is printed on a sun cap distributed by members of the Tibetan Women's Association during a protest march in Dharamshala, India, Friday, May 17, 2024. The 11th Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, went missing on this day in 1995, shortly after his recognition by the Dalai Lama, and has not been seen since. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Participants of the ''Bread Procession of the Saint'' take part in the ceremony in honor of Saint Domingo de La Calzada (1019-1109), who helped pilgrims and poor people, in Santo Domingo de La Calzada, northern Spain, on Friday, May 10, 2024. Each "Prioress" holds a basket on their head covered with white cloth while they walk along this old village in Santo Domingo de La Calzada, northern Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) Archival Photos Consecration ceremonies for Archimandrite Firmilijan of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently named as Midwest bishop in the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese in the U.S. and Canada, were protested in Milwaukee, Wis., as about 100 Serbian Royalist picketers demonstrated outside St. Sava Cathedral on Aug. 1, 1963. Signs they carried charged the new bishop with being a “Pawn of the Yugoslavian Communists.” At one point during the picketing, minor scuffling broke out and police intervened to prevent more serious altercations. The incident was part of a continuing controversy over the division of the Diocese into three sections and the suspension of Bishop Dionisije, who headed the entire Diocese, by the Church’s Council of Bishops in Belgrade. Bishop Dionisije refused to recognize the suspension; he said charges against him alleging canonical offense were lodged by a “handful of Communists among the American Serbs” and that the Council was under pressure from “Tito’s Communist regime in Yugoslavia.” (RNS archive photo by Ray C. Wentworth. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Miss America — Vonda Kay Van Dyke — chats with a group of Methodist leaders after telling the denomination’s District Superintendents’ Convocation in Chicago on Nov. 13, 1964, that if she “can help just one person enrich their life then the Miss America crown will be meaningful to God and to me.” With the Arizona beauty queen, an active member of Central Methodist Church in Phoenix, are (from left) Dr. Elliott L. Fisher of Evanston, Ill., general secretary of the Commission on Promotion and Cultivation which sponsored the convocation; Bishop Donald Harvey Tippett of San Francisco, Cal., and Dr. William C. Rasche, superintendent of the DeKalb, Ill., district. About 1,000 superintendents, bishops and other church leaders attended the convocation. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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