Photos of the Week

This week's picks for our weekly gallery of religion photos from around the world.

Workers adjust lanterns for upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 22 at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, on April 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression from around the world. This week’s gallery includes images of Holocaust remembrances, a Hindu festival, and more.

Workers adjust lanterns for an upcoming celebration of Buddha’s birthday on May 22 at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, on April 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)


A participant has the words “NOT IN MY NAME” painted on her face during a protest on April 15, 2018, near the Parliament in New Delhi, India, held after two recently reported rape cases. Religious tensions have risen since the rapes, with one case involving an eight-year-old Muslim girl who was raped and killed allegedly by eight Hindu males. (AP Photo/Oinam Anand)

People dance during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the Israeli state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A Bangladeshi Hindu devotee, dressed as the Hindu God Shiva, hangs from a rope with hooks pierced in his back as part of a ritual, during the Charak Puja festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 14, 2018. Hindus believe that the festival will bring prosperity by eliminating the sorrow and the sufferings of the previous year. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

A Hindu priest marks a trader’s account book with holy symbols on Bengali New Year’s day in Kolkata, India, on April 15, 2017. Traders in West Bengal open their new account books for the year on Bengali New Year after offering prayers to the Hindu goddess Lakshmi and the elephant-headed god Ganesha to bring them prosperity. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Nazi concentration camp survivor Alexander Bytschok of Kiev, Ukraine, mourns on a plain metal plaque during the commemoration ceremonies for the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, on April 15, 2018. On April 11, 1945, units of the 3rd US Army reached Ettersberg Hill. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Druze men carry a Syrian flag during a rally marking Syria’s Independence Day, in the Druze village of Ein Qiniyye, Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, on April 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Visitors laugh as they attend an invitation-only screening of the Black Panther movie at the King Abdullah Financial District Theater, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on April 18, 2018. Saudi Arabia held a private screening of the movie to herald the launch of public movie theaters in the kingdom for the first time. It’s seen as part of a new era in which women will soon be allowed to drive and people in the kingdom will be able to go to concerts and fashion shows, and tuck into a bucket of popcorn at a cinema. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)


Polish President Andrzej Duda lays a wreath during state ceremonies in homage to the victims and fighters of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, on the 75th anniversary of the start of the revolt, in front of the Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes, in Warsaw, Poland, on April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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