Photos of the Week: Jewish pilgrims in Ukraine; Hurricane Ian

By Kit Doyle · September 30, 2022
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Jewish pilgrims in Ukraine, the destruction of Hurricane Ian and more. Orthodox Jews gather at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of the Hasidic movement, in the town of Uman, 125 miles south of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims flocked to central Ukraine to mark the Jewish new year Sunday, ignoring international travel warnings as Russia struck more targets from the air and mobilized its citizens to stem losses in the war that has entered its eighth month. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Orthodox Jews pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of the Hasidic movement, in the town of Uman, 125 miles south of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Orthodox Jewish children pray in a synagogue at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of the Hasidic movement, in the town of Uman, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) A family walks in the rain in search of shelter after Hurricane Ian flooded their home in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Ian made landfall at 4:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday in Cuba’s Pinar del Rio province, where officials set up shelters, evacuated people, rushed in emergency personnel and took steps to protect crops in the nation’s main tobacco-growing region. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Volunteers with the Metropolitan Ministries World Central Kitchen prepare sandwiches that will go to Hurricane Ian survivors in southwest Florida, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) Authorities transport a person out of the Avante nursing home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Hurricane Ian carved a path of destruction across Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, cutting off the only bridge to a barrier island, destroying a historic waterfront pier and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain over a huge area on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Raoux) Pope Francis reads his message in the Paul VI hall on the occasion of an audience granted to some of the participants of the "Sports for all" meeting at the Vatican, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Hindu devotees get their heads shaved before performing rituals to mark Mahalaya in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Hindus offer prayers and perform rituals in remembrance of their ancestors on this day. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Hindu devotees perform rituals on the banks of the Hooghly River on the occasion of Mahalaya, an auspicious day to pay homage to ancestors, in Kolkata, India, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) Archival Photos The Rev. Angel Torres, a Pentecostal faith healer from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, lays his hands on a woman during an ecumenical faith healing service at the Roman Catholic Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House on Staten Island, circa Nov. 1971 Assisting Mr. Torres is Dr. George Kroeger of the U.S. Public Health Hospital on Staten Island. Catholic and Protestant Pentecostal groups attended the service, sponsored by the retreat house and the Mariners Harbor (Pentecostal) Tabernacle. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society. Youth work in a garden outside the Nagoya Central Church in Nagoya, Japan, circa 1948. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society. The Rev. W. Don Brown, rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Coronado, California, started a "Dial-A-Prayer" telephone service in 1955 which became popular in the area. The program was the first of its kind started by an Episcopal church in the country. By dialing a special number, church members can hear a prayer previously recorded by Mr. Brown. The clergyman records three different prayers each day — for the morning, afternoon, and evening hours. During the first two weeks after the phone service was started, some 500 persons called daily. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
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