Photos of the Week

Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s gallery includes images from the United States, Serbia, India and more.

Indians paint decorative motifs on an elephant in preparation of the annual Rath Yatra, or Chariot procession, in Ahmadabad, India, on July 13, 2018. The three idols of Hindu God Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra are taken out in a grand procession in specially made chariots, called raths, which are pulled by thousands of devotees during the Rath Yatram or the chariot procession festival, which will be celebrated on July 14. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s gallery includes images from the United States, Serbia, India and more.

Indians paint decorative motifs on an elephant in preparation of the annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession, in Ahmadabad, India, on July 13, 2018. The three idols of Hindu God Jagannath, his brother, Balabhadra, and sister, Subhadra, are taken out in a grand procession in specially made chariots, called raths, which are pulled by thousands of devotees during the Rath Yatram or the chariot procession festival, which will be celebrated on July 14. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)


Bosnian Muslim women mourn near the coffin of one of the 35 identified victims of the 1995 massacre, at the memorial center of Potocari near Srebrenica, 90 miles northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on July 11, 2018. Thousands of Bosnian Muslims have gathered in Srebrenica on the 23rd anniversary of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II to hold prayers and attend a funeral for 35 recently identified victims. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Law-enforcement officers attend the funeral service for New York State Trooper Nicholas F. Clark, Sunday, July 8, 2018, at Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y. Clark, 29, was shot and killed July 2 while responding to a suicidal individual in the Corning, N.Y., area. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)

Russian newlyweds pose on a zebra crossing during the 2018 soccer World Cup in Samara, Russia, on, July 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, center, serves macaroni and cheese to the homeless as he volunteers with Catholic Charities on July 11, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Monk students of Namgyal Monastery School take cover as a thunderstorm passes in Dharmsala, India, on July 9, 2018. The school, which was established in 2017, provides religious and secular education to monks. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

A Bosnian Muslim woman walks among graves at the memorial center of Potocari near Srebrenica, 90 miles northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on July 11, 2018. Thousands of Bosnian Muslims have gathered in Srebrenica on the 23rd anniversary of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II to hold prayers and attend a funeral for 35 recently identified victims. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Hermelindo Che Coc, of Guatemala, kneels as the Rev. Tom Carey, left, the Rev. David Farley and the Rev. Matthias Peterson-Brandt pray over him before a required check-in with immigration enforcement authorities on July 10, 2018 in Los Angeles. Che Coc says his 6-year-old son were separated after they crossed into Texas in May. He says authorities told him he would be detained and his son was sent to a shelter in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)


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