Photos of the Week: Easter; colorful Bali festival

By Kit Doyle · April 5, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Easter traditions, a colorful Hindu festival in Bali and more. Local residents of the region wearing traditional costumes make their way to get blessings for men and animals at the St. George Church in Traunstein, Germany, Monday, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) Participants wearing decorated hats and costumes laugh with a member of the church in the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, March 31, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) Christian families remember their loved ones by lighting candles and putting flowers on their graves early in the morning on Easter in Purulia, West Bengal, India, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Christians around the world are celebrating Easter, commemorating the day Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem two millennia ago, according to Christian tradition. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) A colorful sawdust carpet, or alfombra, is seen before a Good Friday procession organized by Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington, D.C. on Friday, March 29, 2024. (RNS photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) Worshipers listen to a sermon by Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church, during a sunrise Easter service at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard) Gede Pasek and his son participate in the Hindu ritual of Ngerebeg at Tegallalang village in Bali, Indonesia, April 3, 2024. In this ritual, participants paint their bodies with colorful paint and parade around their village to ward off evil spirits and bring happiness to the village. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati) Body-painted males participate in the Hindu ritual of Ngerebeg at Tegallalang village in Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. In this ritual, participants paint their bodies with colorful paints and parade around their village to ward off evil spirits and bring happiness to the village. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati) Police push away members of Brothers and Sisters in Arms during a protest against Israel’s exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service, in Mea Shearim ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) Indian Muslims pray on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 5, 2024. Islam's holiest month is a period of intense prayer, self-discipline, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) Pro-Palestinian protesters take part at a demonstration on Al-Quds Day, in London, Friday, April 5, 2024. The controversial annual demonstration through the capital takes place to show support for the people of Palestine. The parade has been called a 'brazen' sign of support for militant group Hezbollah by its opponents, though its supporters argue that critics are trying to suppress their freedom of expression. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Muslims read verses of the Quran in a mosque during Itikaf, which requires staying in seclusion in a mosque to read the Quran and pray during the last 10 days of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) Iranian Shiite Muslims place copies of the Quran on their heads as they pray in Laylat al-Qadr, or the Night of Destiny, during the Muslims holy fasting month of Ramadan after midnight, at the shrine of Saint Saleh in northern Tehran, Iran, early Monday, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) Archival Photos Bishop Antoine Nguyen Van Thien of Vinh-Long, South Vietnam, walks through Saigon's streets in a futile attempt to halt fighting between Buddhists and Catholics in Aug. 1964. A Catholic carrying a weapon, left, halts to kiss the bishop's ring amid the turmoil. The prelate fearlessly strode into strife-torn areas in an appeal for peace. Buddhist and Catholic authorities later issued an appeal for an end to the fighting, which imperiled the country's defense against Communists invading from the North. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Pvt. Orville Chatman, of Riverton, Ky., exhibits the punctured New Testament which stopped a piece of shrapnel from entering his heart in 1948. He was a patient at Crile Hospital in Parma, Ohio. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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