Photos of the Week: Pope visits Canada; Hindu Festivals

By Jessi Dodge · July 29, 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 pope's visit to Canada, Hindu festivals and more. A Kyrgyz woman wearing an elecheck, the traditional Kyrgyz headdress for married women prays inside a yurt, a traditional Kyrgyz house during the Ak-Moor Fest Ethno-festival in Ornok, a resort village on the northern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, 207 kilometers (129 miles) east of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, July 23, 2022. On the shore of one of the world's largest lakes, high up in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains, models strutted and sashayed in outfits mixing the ancient and modern at the World Nomads Fashion festival. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin) Pope Francis goes to pray by the remains of Saint Francois De Laval after presiding over a vespers service at the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre Dame de Quebec, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Quebec City, Quebec. Pope Francis is on a "penitential" six-day visit to Canada to beg forgiveness from survivors of the country's residential schools, where Catholic missionaries contributed to the "cultural genocide" of generations of Indigenous children by trying to stamp out their languages, cultures and traditions. (AP Photo/John Locher) Pope Francis presides over a mass at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupre, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Saint Anne de Beaupre, Quebec. Pope Francis is on a "penitential" six-day visit to Canada to beg forgiveness from survivors of the country's residential schools, where Catholic missionaries contributed to the "cultural genocide" of generations of Indigenous children by trying to stamp out their languages, cultures and traditions. (AP Photo/John Locher) Pope Francis arrives for Mass at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupre, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Saint Anne de Beaupre, Quebec. Pope Francis is on a "penitential" six-day visit to Canada to beg forgiveness from survivors of the country's residential schools, where Catholic missionaries contributed to the "cultural genocide" of generations of Indigenous children by trying to stamp out their languages, cultures and traditions. (AP Photo/John Locher) An Indian artist gets make up before a performance during a procession of "Bonalu" festival in Hyderabad, India, Monday, July 25, 2022. Bonalu is a month-long Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region dedicated to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) Children play with hay straws before burning the same to represent demolition of evil during the Ghantakarna festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. The festival is believed to ward off evil spirits, and bring peace and prosperity. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) Hindu devotees offer prayers to a row of Shivlings, idols symbolic of the Hindu god Shiva, at a temple on a Monday in the Hindu calendar month Sawan in Prayagraj, northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Monday, July 25, 2022. Sawan or Shravan is the fifth month of the Hindu calendar and is considered the holiest month of the year. Devotees worship Lord Shiva on each Monday of this month, known as Sawan Somvar. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Osmar Aguero poses for a photo dressed in feathers to honor Saint Francisco Solano, known as the Saint of birds, during a Catholic Mass in Emboscada, Paraguay, Sunday, July 24, 2022. Legend has it that while lying on his death bed in a Peruvian convent, birds perched on Solano's window and would sing to him, inspiring his followers to dress in bird costumes. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz) A Kashmiri Muslim man feeds pigeons on Martyr Day of second Khalifa of Islam Hazrat Umar-e-Farooq, at Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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