Photos of the Week: Srebrenica Genocide Commemoration; Amarnath pilgrimage

By Jessi Dodge · July 14, 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 anniversary pilgrimage to the Srebrenica Genocide Commemoration, an ongoing pilgrimage to the Hindu Shrine Amarnath and more. Attendees gather around the rows of coffins returned to the memorial center in Bosnia in early July. Photo by Shahar Azran/WJC The crowd of attendees at the Srebrenica Genocide Commemoration lift the first coffin of remains overhead outside the memorial center in early July in Bosnia. Photo by Shahar Azran/WJC A woman kneels down to touch one of the coffins during the Srebrenica Genocide Commemoration. The remains of many individuals were returned to the memorial center and included in part of the commemoration event in early July. Shahar Azran / WJC Attendees join together for a presentation during the Srebrenica Genocide Commemoration in early July in Bosnia. Photo by Shahar Azran/WJC A girl takes a selfie with the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for "moon craft" in Sanskrit, inside a temple in Mumbai, India, Friday, July 14, 2023. The Indian spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, the country's space agency said. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) A tourist shelters with a Rome map as she waits for the start of Pope Francis' Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, July 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernandez, archbishop of La Plata, holds hands with a woman after a Mass at the Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Fernandez was appointed by Pope Francis to head the Holy See's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, stands next to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, July 8, 2023. Zelenskyy attended a memorial ceremony for the victims of the war in Ukraine led by Patriarch Bartholomew I. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Pilgrims headed to the Himalayan shrine of Amarnath prepare food in the shade of a parked bus outside a base camp in Jammu, as their onward journey remained suspended for the third consecutive day due to bad weather in India, Monday, July 10,2023. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) Hindu devotees stand in queue to offers prayers at a makeshift temple of Hindu god Ram, at the site of the demolished Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya, India, Sunday, July 9, 2023. The 16th century mosque was destroyed by Hindu radicals in December 1992, sparking massive Hindu-Muslim violence that left some 2,000 people dead. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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