Photos of the Week: Hindu wrestlers; Italian heatwave
By Kit Doyle · August 13, 2021
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes Hindu wrestlers,Italy's heatwave and more.
Traditional Indian wrestlers engage in a bout during Nag Panchami festival in Prayagraj, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Every year, the wrestlers offer prayers and hold bouts to mark the festival, which is primarily dedicated to the worship of snakes. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
A traditional Indian wrestler prepares for a bout during Nag Panchami festival in Prayagraj, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Every year, the wrestlers offer prayers and hold bouts to mark the festival, which is primarily dedicated to the worship of snakes. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
A Buddhist monk chants holy scripts at the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Masked visitors walk along a path to the Sensoji temple in the Asakusa neighborhood of Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Tourists brave a heatwave as they visit the Valley of the Temples, near Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. Italy has experienced a prolonged heatwave. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
An artisan makes a clay statue of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha at a studio in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Palestinians pray during Friday prayers at a protest against disabled access pathways and an elevator being constructed on the Jewish side at the Ibrahimi Mosque, which Jews call the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Archive Photos
Pheasant hunters participate in a Bible study class in the morning before going out to hunt at Byron Bible Camp, near Huron, South Dakota, circa 1948. The men dress in their hunting clothes in the morning so that they don't have to change before hunting. The camp opened each hunting season and attracted a number of Protestant churchmen. The camp was run by the Rev. E.C. Harmon, a member of the American Sunday School Union. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
One thousand delegates of the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in Boston gather in "silent vigil" outside the office of Boston school committee to lend support to a protest against racial imbalance in the city's schools in May 1965. RNS archive photo by Ed Mason. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
