Photos of the Week

This week’s gallery includes violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims in India, fears across faiths of the coronavirus spreading, and more.

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s gallery includes violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims in India, fears across faiths of the coronavirus spreading, and more.

Birds take wing as President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tour the Taj Mahal, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in Agra, India. The centerpiece of the Taj Mahal, which was completed around 1650, is a mausoleum, but the complex also features a mosque. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


A man wears a face mask in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican during Pope Francis’ weekly general audience, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Italy has had hundreds of coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

A bloody stretcher lies near family members of Rahul Solanki, who was killed during clashes between Hindu mobs and Muslims protesting a new citizenship law, as they mourn outside a mortuary in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Dozens more were killed in three days of clashes, with the death toll expected to rise as hospitals overflowed with dozens of injured people, authorities said. The citizenship law fast-tracks naturalization for foreign-born religious minorities of all major faiths in South Asia except Islam. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Muslims offer prayers on the roof of a fire-bombed mosque in New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Two days after a 72-hour clash between Hindus and Muslims left at least 38 dead and hundreds injured, Muslims returned to the streets of northeastern New Delhi to attend weekly prayers at heavily-policed mosques on Friday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Residents of Jongno-Gu spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. South Korea and China each reported hundreds more cases of coronavirus Thursday, as the new illness persists in the worst-hit areas and spreads beyond borders. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Indonesian Muslims scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia for a minor pilgrimage called Umrah rest in a waiting area after being turned away from their flights at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Indonesia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Saudi Arabia on Thursday banned foreign pilgrims from entering the kingdom to visit Islam’s holiest sites over fears of the new coronavirus, potentially disrupting the plans of millions of faithful ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and as the annual hajj pilgrimage looms. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Workers clean as Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage known as Umrah in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. On Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, Saudi Arabia halted incoming travel of foreign pilgrims to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a new viral epidemic just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

A Catholic nun sprinkles ash on the head of devotees wearing protective masks during Ash Wednesday rites Feb. 26, 2020 in Paranaque, metropolitan Manila, Philippines. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines recommended sprinkling ash on the head of devotees instead of using it to mark foreheads with a cross to avoid physical contact and fight the spread of the new coronavirus in the Lenten period in places of worship. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)


Catholics with ashes on their foreheads in the shape of a cross attend a Mass commemorating Ash Wednesday at Santiago Apostol Church in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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