Photos of the Week: Devil festival; Trump’s shock and awe
By Kit Doyle · February 11, 2025
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes an annual devil festival in Spain, the Trump administration's flurry of activity and more.
Dressed in white robes to symbolize purity and equality before God, followers of the Layene brotherhood gather near a sacred grotto where they believe their prophet received divine inspiration, in Ngor, Senegal, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)
Every February in the Spanish village of Almonacid del Marquesado, residents celebrate the feast day of the Virgin of Candelaria, with “devils” and dancers taking to the streets in a vibrant display of faith and tradition. Members of the Endiablada brotherhood march during the 'Endiablada' festival in Almonacid del Marquesado, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Members of the Endiablada brotherhood take part in the 'Endiablada' traditional festival in Almonacid del Marquesado, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland speaks during a protest against the shuttering of the United States Refugee Admissions Program, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)
Vice President JD Vance speaks at the International Religious Freedom Summit at the Washington Hilton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)
Demonstrators and lawmakers rally Feb. 5, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington, against President Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk over their disruptions of the federal government, including dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, which administers foreign aid approved by Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Buddhist monks line up to collect their morning alms from Buddhist devotees, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
A man helps his daughter write on the wall of Saraswati temple as a part of rituals of the Shri Panchami Festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. The festival honors Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, with students paying respect and young children receiving their first lesson. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as a head cleric displays a relic, believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Hazratbal shrine on the Friday following Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Archival Photos
Skiers leave a Catholic chapel in Canada's Laurentian Mountains after attending an early Sunday Mass in 1954 in the province of Quebec. Special early services are held for vacationing skiers in most of Quebec's churches. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Lee Belcher of Lincoln Park, Mich., is led into the freezing Huron River at Romulus, near Detroit, to be baptized by total immersion on Jan. 7, 1974. The Rev. Lloyd Smith, left, and the Rev. Walter Mullins of the Little Ida Church in Ecorse, Mich., assist the 50-year-old Belcher as she enters the water. “If you’ve got enough faith, you won’t get sick,” Belcher said. (RNS archive photo. Photo corutesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
