(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Palm Sunday celebrations, Passover events and more.
Jewish men and children burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Charred tables and dishes are visible inside the Pennsylvania governor's official residence after a man was arrested in an alleged arson that forced Gov. Josh Shapiro, his family and guests to flee in the middle of the night on the Jewish holiday of Passover, Sunday, April 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
Congregants of the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, which burned down in the Eaton fire, gather for their Passover Seder at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
A relative of a hostage held in the Gaza Strip pours wine over a table as she takes part in a protest demanding immediate release of the hostages from Hamas captivity, during the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Tamil Hindus participate in a religious procession called Kavad Yatra during Panguni Uthiram festival in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
People attend the unveiling ceremony of the new Thich Nhat Hanh Way street sign in New York City, Friday, April 11, 2025. (RNS photo/Richa Karmarkar)
Two churches, one Catholic and one Baptist, are flooded by the Kentucky River in Lockport, Ky., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Catholic faithful march carrying palm fronds to celebrate Palm Sunday, on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Penitents of the 'San Gonzalo' brotherhood process through the streets of Seville during Holy Week in Spain, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Orthodox Christians walk holding palm branches on the evening of Palm Sunday, on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Pope Francis arrives at the end of the Mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A priest blesses people with water before a Palm Sunday Mass in Luque, Paraguay, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Archival Photos
For the first time in history, Jewish Passover was celebrated on a community scale throughout Japan and Korea as American servicemen observed the traditional rites in 1946. A Seder is held in the Headquarters Building mess hall in Tokyo, Japan, with more than 1,000 attendees. Chaplain Joseph Weiss, of Brooklyn, from left, conducts the service assisted by Pfc Paul Levins, of Philadelphia, and 1st Lt. Alfred Goodman, of Lima, Ohio. (RNS archive photo)
This unique invitation to First Baptist Church of Gulfport, Miss., greets travelers on U.S. Highway 90 in 1965. The huge billboard was seen by motorists moving in either direction. Those who accept the invitation have only a one-block detour to visit the nearby church. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Sister Electra, a Girl Scout instructor at the Blessed Sacrament Center in Boston’s predominantly Black district of Roxbury, joins four troop members in the Pledge of Allegiance in 1965. The nun, who wears a Girl Scout emblem on her religious garb, is a member of the Blessed Sacrament Sisters, which was founded by Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia in 1914. (RNS archive photo by Cornelius M. Buckley. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
