Photos of the Week: Netanyahu at Capitol; Paraguayan bird saint

By Kit Doyle · July 26, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing a joint session of Congress, Paraguayans celebrating a saint with bird costumes and more. Hundreds of demonstrators protest in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building at the Capitol in Washington,Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) Demonstrators manipulate a large puppet representing Benjamin Netanyahu while marching near the National Mall, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a joint meeting of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Demonstrators march near the National Mall during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S. Capitol, July 24, 2024, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) Hindu Kanwarias, worshippers of the god Shiva, pray after taking dips in the Ganges River, in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Friday, July 26, 2024. Kanwarias perform a ritual pilgrimage in which they walk, sometimes hundreds of kilometers, to the Ganges to take its sacred waters back to their hometown temples. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) The destroyed historic chapel at First Baptist Church of Dallas on July 20, 2024, after a large fire the night before. (Photo courtesy of First Baptist Dallas) The Rev. Edwina Landry, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Rome, passes salvaged steeple clock faces recovered from the destroyed steeple of the church in Rome, N.Y., Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Cleanup continues around the heavily damaged city center after the EF2 tornado touched down a week earlier. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) Devotees in feathered costumes take part in a procession celebrating Saint Francisco Solano in Emboscada, Paraguay, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Hundreds of Paraguayan Catholics don bird-like costumes and parade down the streets to honor the 16th century saint said to possess miraculous powers. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz) Victor Damian looks to the sky dressed in a feathered costume, paying tribute to Saint Francisco Solano, in Emboscada, Paraguay, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Hundreds of Paraguayan Catholics don bird-like costumes and parade down the streets to honor the 16th century saint said to possess miraculous powers. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz) Rabbi Moshe Lewin, right, shows a Torah scroll to Muslim representative Najat Benali, with pink head covering, and to Catholic priest Jason Nioka, left, in the interreligious hall the Olympic Village at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) The Rev. Marko Rupnik’s mosaics depicting biblical scenes, saints and the Virgin Mary on the walls of Luminous Mysteries Chapel are covered with paper at Saint John Paul II National Shrine, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Washington. The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal group, has covered defining features of the mosaics in the shrine after the artist, formerly a Jesuit, was accused of abusing women. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Archival Photos A member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars wears a badge opposing amnesty on his hat at the VFW’s convention in Chicago in August 1974. Despite President Ford’s speech to the group, in which he said he wanted a “second chance” for men who fled the country to escape induction and those in legal trouble for resistance and desertion during the Vietnam War, the VFW opposed to amnesty. Top religious leaders, however, warmly welcomed Ford’s call for “leniency.” (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Cases of powdered milk, part of a shipment of 43,440 pounds to aid the people of Luxembourg, are inspected in Seattle, Washington, by Gertrude L. Apel, from left, Chester S. Ramsey and Arthur B. Langlie of Washington State United Church Overseas Relief in 1946. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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