Photos of the Week: Passover; Campus protests

By Kit Doyle · April 26, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Passover, campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and more. Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Demonstrators attend a “Seder in the Streets" event April 23, 2024, on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York. The Passover-related protest was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. (RNS photo/Fiona André) Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray outside of one of the gates to the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary or the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Passover holiday, on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The holiday celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) An Aymara Indigenous priest raises her hands as an offering burns for the "Pachamama," or Mother Earth, during a ceremony marking Earth Day in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) Musician Sean Feucht, center right with arm raised, and pastor Russell Johnson, center left, participate in the “United for Israel” march around Columbia University, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Manhattan, New York. (RNS photo/Fiona André) A sign reads, 'Stop Funding Genocide', at the pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment at Columbia University in New York, April 22, 2024. U.S. colleges and universities are preparing for end-of-year commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) New York University students and others gather in Washington Square Park for a town hall meeting called by pro-Palestinian student organizations, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Manhattan, New York. (RNS photo/Fiona André) An exile Tibetan carries a portrait of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at an event marking the birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, in Dharamshala, India, Thursday, April 25, 2024. Panchen Lama, who is the second highest religious leader in Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, went missing shortly after his recognition by the Dalai Lama in 1995 and has not been seen since. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Pilgrims gather around a cross during the Saint George celebration in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Hundreds of Haitians flocked to a hill in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday for the annual celebration of St. George, a Christian martyr who was believed to be a Roman soldier and is revered by both Catholics and those who practice Voodoo. They offered him money and prayers in hopes they would make it through Haiti's economic and political crisis. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Pilgrims rest on a bench while celebrating the feat day of Saint George in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Hundreds of Haitians flocked to a hill in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday for the annual celebration of St. George, a Christian martyr who was believed to be a Roman soldier and is revered by both Catholics and those who practice Voodoo. They offered him money and prayers in hopes they would make it through Haiti's economic and political crisis. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) People pray on the feast day of Saint George at Saint George Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before sunrise, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The Catholic saint is associated with bravery and resistance. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) Archival Photos Black, Puerto Rican and white students march in front of Seward Park High School on New York City's Lower East Side on Feb. 3, 1964. Schools in the New York area were picketed despite icy winds after civil rights groups charged the existence of racial imbalance. It was estimated that some 360,000 students observed the boycott. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society) Church members package clothes to be sent to Europe in Dec. 1945, ahead of the Victory Clothing Collection for overseas relief. Backed by Bishop C. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, and the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, among others, the drive aimed to collect 100,000,000 garments, in addition to shoes and bedding. (RNS archive photo by Glen Perrins. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society)
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