Photos of the Week: March for Life, Buddhists in South Korea, MLK

By Kit Doyle · January 21, 2022

(RNS) - Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the annual March for Life, protesting Buddhists in South Korea and more. South Korean Buddhist monks participate at a rally at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered to protest alleged religious discrimination by the South Korean government. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) South Korean Buddhists participate in a rally at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered to protest alleged religious discrimination by the South Korean government. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) Imam Omar Suleiman hugs Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker after the rabbi’s release from being held hostage at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, on Jan. 15, 2021. Photo by Asra Khan Shortly after 5 p.m., local time, authorities escort a hostage out of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. Police said the man was not hurt and would be reunited with his family. (Elias Valverde/The Dallas Morning News via AP) Police guard Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. An armed British man took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff on Saturday at the synagogue that ended in his death. The hostages were able to escape and the hostage-taker was killed. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade, File)

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People participate in the annual March for Life on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Messages voicing support for abortion rights are projected onto the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2021. The messages were part of a protest staged by the liberal advocacy group Catholics for Choice. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins Anti-abortion activists march to the U.S. Supreme Court during the annual March for Life in Washington, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Scenes from the annual March for Life, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins Buddhist monks take a test for the liturgical Pali language at Wat Molilokayaram in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) Archival Photos The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his “I Have a Dream,” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons Inhabitants of Resurrection City, home of the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, read newspaper accounts on June 8, 1968, of the capture of James Earl Ray, the accused assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in London. Announcement of the capture was read over the public address system in the campsite. RNS archive photo via UPI Telephoto. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at an interfaith civil rights rally at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on June 30, 1964. Photo by George Conklin/Creative Commons The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., center left, and Malcolm X speak after King's press conference at the U.S. Capitol about the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Photo by Marion S. Trikosko/Library of Congress/Creative Commons The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy follows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. The children are Donzaleigh Abernathy in striped sweater, Ralph David Abernathy III and Juandalynn R. Abernathy in glasses. The name of the white minister in the photo is unknown. Photo courtesy of Abernathy Family/Creative Commons The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. From left are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King, and Ralph Abernathy. The 39-year-old Nobel laureate was the proponent of nonviolence in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly) The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, shakes hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala., on March 22, 1956, as supporters cheer for King, who had just been found guilty of leading the Montgomery bus boycott. Circuit Judge Eugene Carter suspended the fine of $500 pending an appeal. King's wife, Coretta, stands next to him. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick) The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., on March 28, 1968. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell) The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks about his opposition to the war in Vietnam at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, in New York. RNS file photo by John C. Goodwin

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