Photos of the Week: Stampede in India, Bulgarian Patriarch

By Jessi Dodge · July 5, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes a stampede after a religious festival in India, the enthronement of the new Bulgarian Patriarch and more. Women mourn next to the body of a relative outside the Sikandrarao hospital in Hathras district about 350 kilometers (217 miles) southwest of Lucknow, India, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Thousands of people at a religious gathering in India rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed more than a hundred people and injured scores.(AP Photo/Manoj Aligadi) People injured in a stampede receive treatment at Hathras district hospital, Uttar Pradesh, India, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Thousands of people at a religious gathering rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed more than a hundred people and injured scores. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Uttar Pradesh State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visits the place where a fatal stampede took place in Fulrai village of Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh, India, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Thousands of people at a religious gathering rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed more than a hundred people and injured scores. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) A Vatican and Israeli flag are held as Pope Francis appears at his studio's window to bless faithful and pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican for the noon Angelus prayer, Sunday, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) Mourners pray over the coffin of senior Hezbollah commander Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit his car in the southern costal town of Tyre, during his funeral procession in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 4, 2024. The strike took place as global diplomatic efforts have intensified in recent weeks to prevent escalating clashes between Hezbollah and the Israeli military from spiraling into an all-out war that could possibly lead to a direct confrontation between Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Cambodian Buddhist monks bless with holy water the artifact statues as they return from the U.S. to Cambodia during an official ceremony at the Cambodian National Museum in Phnom Penh Cambodia, Thursday, July 4, 2024. Cambodia on Thursday officially organized a welcome ceremony for the arrival of more than a dozen rare Angkor-era sculptures from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art that were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) At the St. Joseph church in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, people watch the match between England and Slovakia at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament, Sunday, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) Hindu holy men stand in a queue in Jammu, India, to register for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine, Monday, July 1, 2024. Thousands of pilgrims flock each year to the Himalayan shrine which contains a large icicle revered by Hindus as an incarnation of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and regeneration. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) A Hindu holy man worships a 'shivling' representing Lord Shiva, as he waits in Jammu, India, to register for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine, Monday, July 1, 2024. Thousands of pilgrims flock each year to the Himalayan shrine which contains a large icicle revered by Hindus as an incarnation of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and regeneration. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) General view of the enthronement ceremony of the newly elected Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Bulgaria's Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Daniil, a 52-year-old metropolitan considered to be pro-Russian, as its new leader in a disputed vote that reflects the divisions in the church and in the society. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova) Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, center, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, poses next to the newly elected Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil during a family photo after his enthronement ceremony at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Bulgaria's Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Daniil, a 52-year-old metropolitan considered to be pro-Russian, as its new leader in a disputed vote that reflects the divisions in the church and in the society. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova) Newly elected Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil blesses the people during his enthronement ceremony at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Bulgaria's Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Daniil, a 52-year-old metropolitan considered to be pro-Russian, as its new leader in a disputed vote that reflects the divisions in the church and in the society. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
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