Photos of the Week: Dancing Devils; Pope Surgery

By Kit Doyle · June 9, 2023
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the Venezuela's dancing devils, Pope Francis' hernia surgery and more. Penitents take part in a dancing devils procession in the annual commemoration of Corpus Christi, in Chuao, Aragua state, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. A Roman Catholic movable feast day celebrating the transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, this year Corpus Christi falls on June 8. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) People take part in a dancing devils procession in the annual commemoration of Corpus Christi, in Chuao, Aragua state, Venezuela, Thursday, June 8, 2023. A Roman Catholic movable feast day celebrating the transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, this year Corpus Christi falls on June 8. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Activists from various Sikh organisations hold placards showing portraits of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a Sikh militant leader who fought for an independent Sikh homeland, as they shout pro-Khalistan and anti-government slogans after offering prayers at the Golden Temple ahead of the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, in Amritsar, India, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Bhindranwale and his supporters were killed in 1984 when the Indian army stormed the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill) A Kashmiri Muslim pilgrim, in white, hugs a relative as she leaves for the holy city of Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, June 7, 2022. The Hajj pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam, attracts around 3 million Muslims worldwide each year. The Saudi Arabian government announced last year that women could perform Hajj without a Mahram, or male guardian, ending a decades old ruling. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) A view of the Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, where Pope Francis underwent surgery earlier this week. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. During the period between the end of one pontificate and the election of a new pope the camerlengo, or chamberlain, runs the administration and finances of the Holy See, but under canon law Francis was still pope, fully in charge of running the Vatican and the 1.3-billion-strong Catholic Church, even while unconscious and undergoing surgery Wednesday, June 7, 2023, to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Surgeon Sergio Alfieri, left, speaks to reporters about Pope Francis' health after operating on him at Rome's Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Pope Francis underwent surgery Wednesday to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the latest malady to befall the 86-year-old pontiff who had part of his colon removed two years ago. At right, Pope's spokesperson Matteo Bruni.(AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, in yellow robe, greets devotees as he arrives to give a religious talk and to mark the day when Tibetans celebrate the birth, death and the enlightenment of Lord Buddha at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, Sunday, June 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Congregants wave their hands in praise as a Protestant pastor leads a prayer at a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Archival Photos Republican presidential candidates in 1988 included, from left, Vice President George Bush, Rep. Jack Kemp, Pat Robertson, and Sen. Robert Dole after a debate in Atlanta on Feb. 28, 1988. Pat Robertson died Thursday, June 8, 2023, at the age of 93. (AP Photo) Two nuns attend a panel discussion on religion in public schools during a conference in St. Louis in 1955. The panel attracted three times as many delegates and observers as any other group meeting at the National Conference on Religion and Public Education, held under the auspices of the National Council of Churches. RNS archive photo by W. C. Runder. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
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