Photos of the Week: Ashura; National Eucharistic Congress

By Kit Doyle · July 19, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Ashura, the National Eucharistic Congress and more. Iraqi Shiites perform a self-flagellation ritual ahead of the Ashura holiday in Najaf, Iraq, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil) Shiite worshippers visit the shrine of Imam Abbas for Muharram processions in Karbala, Iraq, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks Ashura, commemorating the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) Lebanese Shiite men bleed from self-inflicted head wounds to show their grief during activities marking Ashura, in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Ashura is the annual Shiite commemoration of the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Activists pray for the safety of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and other politicians at Lafayette Square near the White House, Sunday, July 14, 2024, in Washington, one day after an assassination attempt on Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) First night of revival during the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain) First night of revival during the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (Photo by Josh Applegate, in partnership with the National Eucharistic Congress) First night of revival during the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (Photo by Jacob Bentzinger, in partnership with the National Eucharistic Congress) People hold photos of bombing victims in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 2024, during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Delegates pray during the Republican National Convention, Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Harmeet Kaur Dhillon offers a Sikh prayer at the Republican National Convention, Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Video screen grab) Archival Photos An vesper service, is held above the sparkling waters of Lake Geneva at the National Adult Work Planning Conference, sponsored by six major interdenominational agencies, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, in 1946. The speaker T. T. Swearingen, of Chicago, is director of adult work and family education of the International Council of Religious Education. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Buddhist monks assail the policies of President Ngo Dinh Diem before a huge crowd attending memorial services outside the Xa Loi Pagoda in Saigon, South Vietnam, in Aug. 1963. The services were held for a monk who had burned himself to death as a sign of protest against alleged religious persecution of Buddhists by the Diem regime. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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