Photos of the Week: Holi, Ramadan

By Jessi Dodge · March 22, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Holi celebrations in India, ongoing Ramadan celebrations and more. FILE - A woman dances as she participates in a procession to mark Falgun Mahotsav ahead of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File) Villagers from Barsana and Nandgaon smeared with colors play Lathmar Holi at Nandagram temple in Nandgoan village, 115 kilometers (70 miles) south of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Women from Nandgaon, the birthplace of Hindu God Krishna, beat the men from Barsana, the legendary birthplace of Radha, the consort of Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to their efforts to put color on them. The same act is then replicated in Barsana between the women of that village and the men of Nandgaon as they observe the Lathmar Holi festival, a celebration of love and friendship. (AP Photo/Kabir Jhangiani) School children play with colored powders ahead of Holi, the festival of colors, in Lucknow, Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) A Hindu devotee prays at Soubhagya Kund, a holy pond, at Kamakhya temple on World Water Day in Guwahati, India, Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) Buddhist faith leaders and community members drape Tibetan prayer scarves on the Birthplace of Antioch marker during the "May We Gather" pilgrimage, Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Antioch, Calif. The event aimed to use karmic cleansing through chants, prayer and testimony to heal racial trauma caused by anti-Chinese discrimination in Antioch in the 1870s. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vasquez) Muslims attend second Friday prayers during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Jaamia mosque, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) A volunteer lays carpet on the outside area of a mosque for Friday prayers during the Muslim's holy fasting month of Ramadan in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) A volunteer serves food plaets among people for breaking their fast during the Muslim's holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a free meal distribution point, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad) Muslim owners of shikara boats (traditional gondolas) offer prayers next to their boats on the banks of the Dal Lake in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, March 17, 2024. Muslims across the world refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk during the holy month of Ramadan and distribute alms. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) Muslim women view their pictures on a cellphone during the holy month of Ramadan outside Sri Sendayan mosque in Negeri Sembilan state, Malaysia, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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