Photos of the Week: Argentina’s patron Saint of work; offerings to Shiva

By Jessi Dodge · August 11, 2023
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Argentina's feast day for the Saint of Work, Hindu offerings to Shiva and more. A person carries a statue of San Cayetano as she lines up to enter the Church of San Cayetano, the Catholic patron Saint of work, on his feast day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A Catholic priest sits in a confessional at the Church of San Cayetano, the patron Saint of work, on his feast day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A priest blesses people visiting the Church of San Cayetano, the Catholic patron Saint of work, on his feast day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Jen Lanham holds a flag before the start of a "rosary rally" on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023, in Norwood, Ohio. A national religious organization, Catholics for Catholics, gathered a lineup of anti-abortion influencers and conspiracy theorists from across the U.S. to speak at the rally to urge a “yes” vote on a ballot question in Ohio, known as Issue 1. If voters approved Issue 1, it would make it more difficult for an abortion rights amendment on the November ballot to succeed. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) An exile Tibetan Buddhist monk walks on a mountain path in Dharamshala, India, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Makkabi Berlin coach Wolfgang Sandhowe instructs his players before a practice match, in Berlin, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. When Makkabi Berlin takes the field on Sunday Aug. 13, 2023, the soccer club founded by Holocaust survivors will become the first Jewish team to play in the German Cup. (AP Photo/Ciaran Fahey) Hindu devotees collect water from Bagmati river during the Bol Bom pilgrimage in Sundarijaal, outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Devotees carrying water from the river walk miles barefooted before offering the same at the Pashupatinath lord Shiva temple in Kathmandu. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) A Hindu devotee collects water from Bagmati river during the Bol Bom pilgrimage in Sundarijaal, outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Devotees carrying water from the river walk miles barefooted before offering the same at the Pashupatinath lord Shiva temple in Kathmandu. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) Archival Photos Road blocks like this by the Ulster Defence Association were a common sight in strife-torn Belfast, Northern Ireland, shown here on December 21, 1977. The UDA was affiliated with the Unionist, or protestant, side of The Troubles conflict. The level of violence in 1977 was the lowest since 1970. Violence-induced deaths were reduced to 110 in 1977, as compared with 297 in 1976. More than 3,500 casualties are attributed to the Northern Ireland conflict, which lasted from the late 1960s to 1998. RNS archive photo, courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society Father John V. Coffield, pastor of Ascension church in Los Angeles, requested — and was granted — a "self-imposed exile" in Chicago for an indefinite period. He is shown here with Father Juan Soto, left, and a group of parishioners, on Dec. 29, 1964. Coffield, in announcing the exile, claimed he had been forbidden to preach out against racial problems by Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles. Coffield said he preferred the exile to maintaining "silence on racism," and as a solution to "an impasse between my cardinal and myself." Coffield also claimed he had been given an "enforced vacation of five months" from June to November after he had spoken out against a state proposition nullifying anti-discrimination laws in housing, later approved by voters. RNS archive photo, courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society
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