Photos of the Week: Eid al-Fitr, natural disasters
By Kit Doyle · April 1, 2025
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Eid al-Fitr, natural disasters in Asia and more.
Families visit Clifton Beach to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Muslims perform an Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Bankra, Howrah district, India, Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Iranian women perform an Eid al-Fitr prayer, marking the end of Ramadan, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A Buddhist monk walks near a collapsed pagoda after an earthquake in Mandalay, central Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo)
Parishioners of Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church process outside during a Lenten reenactment of the biblical story of the Red Sea passage, March 29, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Women pray at the tomb of Blessed Maria Carmen Rendiles at the Belen's School Church in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A Buddhist monk passes by the remains of the bell pavilion at Gounsa Temple in Uiseong, South Korea, Friday, March 28, 2025, which was destroyed by a wildfire. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Muslims and Hindus gather together for afternoon prayers at a mosque in Sadhan village, Agra district, India, on March 20, 2025. (Photo by Priyadarshini Sen)
Newly appointed Orthodox Archbishop Joan of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, center, prays during an inauguration ceremony at the Cathedral of Resurrection of Christ, in Tirana, Albania, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)
Archival Photos
School children from a village near Novo Redondo, Angola, take time out from their lessons to pray at an ornate tomb in a nearby graveyard in 1981. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Greek Orthodox and Anglican church leaders watch as a crucifix is retrieved from the water during the second annual Orthodox “Blessing of the Seas” ceremony in Kent, England, in 1966. The cross has been thrown into the sea by Archbishop Athenagoras of Thyateira, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Great Britain (center right, wearing mitre). As part of the blessing ceremony, Athenagoras conducted an Orthodox service in Greek and English. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
