Photos of the Week: Holy Week; Buddhist Temal festival and more
By Jessi Dodge · April 7, 2023
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Holy week celebrations around the world, the Nepalese Temal festival and more.
Penitents from the ''Exaltacion de La Santa Cruz'' brotherhood take part in a Holy Week procession in Zaragoza, northern Spain, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Young women wearing costumes take part in a Holy Thursday celebration in Santa Rosalia, in the municipality of Mulege, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)
A hooded Filipino penitent with a tattoo of Jesus Christ flagellates himself as part of a Maundy Thursday ritual on April 6, 2023 at Mandaluyong city, Philippines. In recent years COVID-19 restrictions have prevented crowds and devotees from participating in the practice, which have been opposed by the church in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A priest gives absolution to a member of the brotherhood of "Los Estudiantes" before starting a procession through the streets of Seville, Spain, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Pope Francis at a Chrism Mass where he blessed chrism, oil used to consecrate catechumens and the sick, and priests renewed the promises made on the day of their ordination, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Christians pause along the Via Dolorosa, the route that Jesus is believed to have walked to his crucifixion, on Good Friday in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
A Tamang man lights a butter lamp during the Temal festival at Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. During this festival people of the Tamang community gather in monasteries or stupas to light butter lamp to pay homage to loved ones who have passed away. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Muslim girls hold up balloons reading, "Ramadan Mubarak" in Arabic during street performances celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)
A Muslim worshipper offers a prayer during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at Suleymaniye mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Islam's holiest month is a period of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A monolith depicting Coyolxauhqui is exhibited at the Museum of Templo Mayor marking the 45th anniversary of the circular stone’s discovery, in Mexico City, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. “Coyolxauhqui: The star, the goddess, the discovery” exhibition displays more than 150 archaeological objects focused on the mythology, symbolism and scientific research around the Mexica lunar goddess. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Members of the Tamang community people light incense during the Temal festival at Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A whirling dervish spins in a traditional performance during the holy month of Ramadan at Al Muezz Street in Cairo, Egypt, late Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Archival Photos
Hollywood Bowl is filled to capacity for Easter sunrise services in Los Angeles, circa 1954. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Parishioners of the American Church of St. Andrews, in Athens, Greece, attend an annual Easter sunrise service in 1954 on the Rock of Areopagus, or Mar's Hill, where St. Paul is believed to have preached his famous address to the Athenians on "The Unknown God." The Rev. Paul H.W. Olander, pastor of St. Andrews, conducts the service. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
