Photo gallery: Faith on display on Election Day in the US and abroad
By Roxanne Stone · November 5, 2024
(RNS) — American voters headed to the polls for Election Day, carrying with them signs of their faith, as the world looked on.
Michelle Rhea Greene prays as election results are played on a giant screen at Historic King Solomon Baptist Church on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
A supporter arrives at an election night watch party for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Members of the Amish community, Eli Fisher and his wife, Priscilla Fisher, wait for their family members after voting at a polling center on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, at Garden Spot Village retirement community in New Holland, Pa. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
Members of the Howard Gospel Choir perform during an election night campaign watch party for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, on the campus of Howard University in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Supporters pray during an election night watch party for Sam Brown, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Voters line up outside the Gallatin County Courthouse on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Tommy Martino)
Voters fill out their ballots at a polling site at the First Presbyterian Church of Dearborn on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Three-year-old Zayn sits on his father's shoulders as he inserts his ballot into a machine to vote at the First Presbyterian Church of Dearborn on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Voters cast their ballots at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority member Linda Evans adjusts her cap in her home before heading out to vote Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Matteson, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
A wooden cross hangs from her rearview mirror as Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority member Linda Evans drives home after voting Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Matteson, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Ellen Gardiner, 6, leaves an "I voted" sticker on the headstone of Susan B. Anthony at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Lauren Petracca)
Shamans perform a good luck ritual holding posters of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, at the beach in Lima, Peru, on the day of the U.S. election, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
A villager prays in front of the idols of Hindu goddesses after special prayers for the victory of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, at Sri Dharmasastha temple in Thulasendrapuram, the ancestral village of Harris, in Tamil Nadu state, India. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Supporters of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump gather on U.S. Election Day to watch results roll in at a bar on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Students and members of the Zulu Tramps social club march to a campus polling place on Election Day at Southern University on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Ken Brandon, a deacon at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, makes phone calls to get out the vote and offer rides to people to the polling place, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Voters stand in line outside a polling place at Madison Church, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
