Photos of the Week: Parliament of the World’s Religions; Pakistan churches attacked

By Kit Doyle · August 18, 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 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago, Christian churches being attacked in eastern Pakistan and more. Members of a praise team perform during the Opening Ceremony of the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago on August 14, 2023. Photo by Lauren Pond for RNS Sikh motorcyclists participate in the Parade of Faiths in Chicago on Aug. 13, 2023. The parade preceded the Parliament of the World's Religions, which began August 14. Photo by Lauren Pond for RNS Yoruba priestess Aina-Nia leads a water ceremony by Lake Michigan as part of the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago on August 15, 2023. During the ceremony, which recognized the sacredness of water, water from different parts of the world was combined and poured into the lake. Photo by Lauren Pond for RNS Jain nuns participate in a climate repentance ceremony at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago on Aug. 15, 2023. Photo by Lauren Pond for RNS Itzel Guzman affixes Udy Guzman’s headdress before participating in the Parade of Faiths with other members of the Cristo Rey Catholic community in Chicago on Aug. 13, 2023. Photo by Lauren Pond for RNS People gather outside a Christian church burned by an angry Muslim mob in Jaranwala near Faisalabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. A Muslim mob went on a rampage Wednesday, attacking a Christian area in eastern Pakistan, burning a church and damaging two others, police said. The attackers also demolished a man's house after accusing him of desecrating Islam's holy book and attacked several other Christian homes. (AP Photo/Avid Waqar) A Christian man looks at a home vandalized by an angry Muslim mob in Jaranwala in the Faisalabad district, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Police arrested more than 100 Muslims in overnight raids from an area in eastern Pakistan where a Muslim mob angered over the alleged desecration of the Quran by a Christian man attacked churches and homes of minority Christians, prompting authorities to summon troops to restore order, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) A Parsi man walks next to a bas-relief depicting early Zoroastrians at a Parsi colony on Parsi New Year Navroz, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Parsis, also known as Zoroastrians, worship fire and are followers of the Bronze Age Persian prophet Zarathustra. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Hillsong church founder Brian Houston arrives at the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Houston was ruled not guilty Thursday of an Australian charge of concealing his father’s child sex crimes. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP) Catholic Priest Justino Limachi blesses dogs by sprinkling them with holy water during a Mass at the Cuerpo de Cristo parish to celebrate the feast of San Roque, the patron saint of dogs, in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) Catholic pilgrims take part in a procession following the icon of the Virgin Mary during the feast day of the Assumption of Mary in the small town Trakai, some 18 miles west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. Lithuania is celebrating the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is a national holiday. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) Archival Photos Exhibit of the Christian University For Japan at the Biennial Assembly of the United Council of Church Women in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in Nov. 1948. Florence Partridge, from left, of the Women's Guild of the Evangelical and Reformed Church; Ruth Miller, of the Committee for a Christian University; Janet Gilbert, of the Evangelical United Brethren Church Women's Society of World Service; and Marion Hull, of Interboard Women's Work of the Reformed Church of America. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society. More than 180 people participated in the 10th Anniversary Conference of Ordained Lutheran Women, April 13-16, 1980, in Rochester, Minn. The conference, which attracted 105 women clergy and 28 women seminary students, marked the 10th anniversary of the ordination of women by North American Lutherans. Among the participants were the Rev. Elizabeth Bettenhausen, Associate Professor of Social Ethics and Theology, Boston University, from left, the Rev. Joan Martin, Staff Associate for Justice for Women, National Council of Churches in New York, and the Rev. Jean Bozeman, faculty and dean of students, Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. RNS archive photo by Paul Wychor. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
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