Photos of the Week: Buddha’s birthday, Sri Lanka unrest

By Kit Doyle · May 13, 2022
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes commemorating Buddha's birthday, political unrest in Sri Lanka and more. Buddhists wait to attend a service celebrating Buddha's birthday at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 8, 2022. Buddhist believers visit temples across the country to celebrate the Buddha's birthday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) Buddhists light candles to celebrate Buddha's birthday at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 8, 2022. Buddhist believers visit temples across the country to celebrate the Buddha's birthday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) A 200-year-old monument to legendary Prince Volodymyr, a Kyiv landmark and one of the symbols of the Ukrainian capital, is wrapped to protect it from Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, May 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) A soldier pays his last tribute to volunteer soldier Oleksandr Makhov, 36, a well-known Ukrainian journalist, killed by Russian troops, during his funeral at St. Michael Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Photographer Nick Ut, center, with Kim Phuc, left, holds "Napalm Girl," his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1973 photo as they wait to meet with Pope Francis at the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Ut and UNESCO Ambassador Phuc are in Italy to promote a photo exhibition of Ut's 51 years of work at the Associated Press, including his photo of Phuc fleeing her village after it was hit by napalm bombs dropped by South Vietnamese forces. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Israeli police confront mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in East Jerusalem, Friday, May 13, 2022. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American reporter who covered the Mideast conflict for more than 25 years, was shot dead Wednesday during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank town of Jenin. (AP Photo/Maya Levin) A Buddhist monk joins other government supporters in vandalizing a anti-government protest site outside government offices in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 9, 2022. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned following protests demanding that he and his brother, Sri Lanka's president, step down over the country’s economic crisis. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) An injured Buddhist monk is carried away after being attacked by pro-government supporters outside Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 9, 2022. Government supporters attacked protesters who have been camped outside the offices of Sri Lanka's president and prime minster, as trade unions began a week of protests demanding the president to step down over the country’s worst economic crisis in memory. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) ''Las Doncellas'' (White Virgins) hold baskets covered in white cloth, transporting loaves of bread on their heads, during the "Bread Procession of the Saint," a ceremony in honor of Saint Domingo de La Calzada, who helped poor people and pilgrims, in Santo Domingo de La Calzada, northern Spain, Wednesday May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) A member of the Cuban Red Cross takes pictures inside the Calvary Baptist Church, damaged by an explosion that devastated Havana's Hotel Saratoga, in Old Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Church officials say no one was hurt in the May 6 explosion. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Archival Photos Rebuilt at a cost of $15,450 after the racial strife of 1964, Zion Hill Baptist Church in Summit, Mississippi, was dedicated before an interracial congregation on May 16, 1965. It was one of 38 Black churches bombed or burned in Mississippi that summer. Rebuilding the churches was the goal of the Committee of Concern, an interreligious, interracial group that collected $92,000 from across the U.S. RNS archive photo by Elsie Chambers. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society. Benjamin L. Hooks, leader of the NAACP, delivers the keynote address at the Religious Communications Congress in Nashville, Tenn. in May 1980. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
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