Photos of the Week: Panama pilgrims; Presidential push

By Kit Doyle · October 25, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes pilgrims to Panama's Black Christ statue, Harris and Trump making final appeals to voters and more. Candle wax drips on a pilgrim, Valentin Solis, as part of his penance as he and his fellow pilgrims make their way, some crawling, to the San Felipe Church in Portobelo, Panama, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the iconic Black Christ statue that was found on the country's shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Pilgrims arrive inside San Felipe Church to honor the Black Christ in Portobelo, Panama, early Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the iconic statue that was found on the shore of what is now Panama in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Pilgrims rest after crawling to San Felipe Church to honor the Black Christ in Portobelo, Panama, early Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the iconic statue that was found on the shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Latino leaders pray over Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, front center, as he participates in a roundtable with Latino leaders Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a church service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Ga., Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Mourners carry the casket of Fethullah Gülen, an influential Turkish spiritual leader and Islamic scholar who died this week in self-exile in the United States, at a funeral prayer service, Thursday, Oct, 24, 2024, in Augusta, N.J. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez) Nuns and monks touch a metal casing said to contain the remains of Saint Dimitrie Bassarabov, patron saint of the Romanian capital, at the end of a religious procession, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru) Jewish men wearing prayer shawls participate in the Cohanim Priestly caste blessing during the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Thousands gathered to celebrate Sukkot at a 5,000-square-foot sukkah at a Chabad Young Professionals event on Manhattan's East Side, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, in New York City. (RNS photo/Genevieve Charles) Jewish revelers dance in a circle on the holiday of Simchat Torah, in Jerusalem, Thursday Oct. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) Ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing prayer shawls perform the Hoshana Rabbah prayer on the seventh day of the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot at the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo//Oded Balilty) Residents use ropes to lower the coffin of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez into a grave in the church courtyard of San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas state, Mexico, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos) A view of St. Peter's Square as Pope Francis canonizes 14 new saints at a Mass at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Archival Photos Mother Tambellini of the Canossa Benedictine Convent in Dhulia, in north-central India, distributes beans provided by Chicago Catholics to Indian women in Food-For-Work programs sponsored by Catholic Relief Services in 1975. Thanks to a gift of more than $1 million sent by Cardinal John Cody and donated by the people of the Chicago archdiocese, CRS sent food and other supplies to India and a dozen countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Our Lady of Good Harbor elementary school at Buras, La., which was boycotted by white pupils the previous year when it was integrated, was heavily damaged by an explosion and fire in Aug. 1963. The parish priest, the Rev. Christopher Schneider, O.F.M., inspects the damage, which shattered hopes for the school to be reopened in September. Investigators found three five-gallon gasoline cans on the roof of the school. One can still contained gasoline. A burned path about 50 feet long to the school indicated a fuse had been set and then lighted. Archbishop John P. Cody of New Orleans termed the blast “an outrage that must be deplored by every right-thinking person.” (RNS archive photo by Newell Hilary Schindler. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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