Photos of the Week: Shiite pilgrims; DNC protests

By Kit Doyle · August 23, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, pro-Palestinian activists protesting the Democratic National Convention and more. The sun sets as Shiite pilgrims march on their way to Karbala for Arbaeen, the festival that falls 40 days after Ashura, in Babil, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) Iraqi security forces stand guard during a march by Shiite Muslims to Karbala for the Arbaeen ritual, the holiday that marks the end of the 40 day mourning period after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson in the 7th century, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) People attend a vigil during the Democratic National Convention to remember those killed in Gaza, at Montrose Harbor, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago. (RNS photo/Reina Coulibaly) Pro-Palestinian demonstrators pray after a march outside the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Delegates pray during the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) Protesters opposed to the Israel-Hamas war hold a "Not Another Bomb" rally near the U.S. Capitol, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Washington. (RNS photo/Reina Coulibaly) Members of a fishing community offer prayers on shores of the Arabian Sea on the occasion of Narali Purnima, or coconut festival, in Mumbai, India, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) A controversial float in the India Day Parade carried a model, left, of the new temple to Ram in Ayodhya, India, seen Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, in New York. (Video screen grab) Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a protest against a potential new draft law which could end their exemptions from military service in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) Students of the Swaminarayan Gurukul Vishwavidya Pratishthanam perform rituals holding sacred threads, called Janoi, which they wear across their bodies, during a change-over ceremony that coincides with Raksha Bandhan festival in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Archival Photos School buses carrying Black students are given a police motorcycle escort as they head for South Boston High School on the second day of court-ordered busing in Boston, Sept. 13, 1974. Widespread student boycotts and sporadic disturbances marked the first day of school in predominantly white South Boston which, under the court’s integration plan, had been combined into one school district with the largely Black Roxbury section. (RNS archive photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Two workers get a little closer to heaven as they work on the steeple of the First Baptist Church, some 95 feet above the street, in Frederica, Delaware., on Aug. 14, 1974. (RNS archive photo by John Flanagan. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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