Photos of the Week: Lunar New Year; Shiite pilgrims
By Kit Doyle · January 31, 2025
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, Lunar New Year celebrations and more.
Shiite female pilgrims pray at the twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhimduring during the annual pilgrimage in the northwestern Baghdad district of al-Kadhimiyah, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photto/Anmar Khalil)
Shiite worshippers gather at the golden-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, who died at the end of the eighth century, during the annual commemoration of the imam's death, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
People surround the cars carrying Israelis Gadi Mozes and Arbel Yahoud, who had been held hostages by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, as they are escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters to be handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana).
Palestinians return to northern Gaza's destroyed buildings following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to return for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Congregants of Altadena Baptist Church gather to worship at Highlands Church in La Crescenta, Calif., which offered their space to Altadena Baptist after their church burned, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (Photo by Alejandra Molina)
An Egyptian Sufi man performs a devotional dance with a snake known as "zikr" as he celebrates a religious festival, or Moulid, commemorating the birth of Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter Sayyeda Zeinab, outside the mosque and shrine named for her, in Cairo, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
People pay their respects to the late Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All Albania during his funeral, inside the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)
Fire dragon dancers perform under a shower of sparks from molten iron during a temple fair at the Shijingshan Amusement Park in Beijing on the third day of Lunar New Year, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Worshipers burn incense at Wong Tai Sin Temple to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Snake in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Ethnic Chinese Thai set out candles after praying at the Leng Nuei Yee temple to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
People offer candles and pray at a temple for the Lunar New Year of the Snake at Chinatown in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)
Afghan refugees hold placards after President Donald Trump paused U.S. refugee programs, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. Afghans who helped the U.S. military or journalists and aid workers whose former work puts them at risk under the Taliban, they are still waiting to be resettled. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Archival Photos
Pickets representing Clergy and Laity Concerned and the St. Louis Catholic Worker Committee demonstrate outside the Federal Building in St. Louis, Mo., calling for a halt to United States’ aid to El Salvador on Jan. 24, 1981. Picketers warned that the escalation of military assistance could lead to another Vietnam. (RNS archive photo by William McShane. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
President Jimmy Carter, center, meets with Egyptian foreign minister Kamal Hassan Aly, left, and Yosef Burg, Israeli delegation leader, to discuss the resumption of Palestinian autonomy talks in Washington, D.C., in July 1980. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
