Photos of the Week: Pope Francis’ funeral, Buddhist lantern festival
By Kit Doyle · April 30, 2025
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes funerary rites for Pope Francis, an annual Buddhist lantern festival in South Korea and more.
A view of the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
The body of Pope Francis is carried through St. Peter’s Square to St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, April 23, 2025, where he would lie in state for three days. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
People queue to pay their respects to the late Pope Francis, who would lie in state at St. Peter's Basilica for three days, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
People line up to pay their respects to Pope Francis lying in state, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A woman sits on the “Angels Unawares” sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz in St. Peter’s Square, which was inaugurated by the late Pope Francis and depicts migrants and refugees throughout history, as people wait to pay their respects at the pontiff’s coffin in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
Clergy attend the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and President Donald Trump, talk in St. Peter's Basilica at the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.(Photo courtesy Ukrainian Presidential Press Office)
A faithful waves a flag showing Carlo Acutis, the 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia and was beatified in 2020, at the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
The coffin of Pope Francis passes the Colosseum in Rome, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A white rose is placed on the tomb of Pope Francis inside St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Buddhists prepare for the Yeon Deung Hoe, or Lotus Lantern Festival, ahead of the Buddha's birthday on May 5, at Jogye temple in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Buddhist monks carry lanterns in a parade during the Yeon Deung Hoe, or Lotus Lantern Festival, ahead of the Buddha's birthday on May 5, in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Kunti Salazar, with her 3-year-old daughter Kashi, pets a cow at Gita Valley dairy farm, Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Port Royal, Penn. (RNS photo/Richa Karmarkar)
Capitol police officers gather around the Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, center left, and the Rev. William Barber II, center right, as they pray in the Capitol Rotunda, Monday, April 28, 2025. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)
Firefighters work outside the historic Clayborn Temple, a landmark from the Civil Rights Movement with ties to Martin Luther King Jr., after it caught fire Monday, April 28, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht)
Archival Photos
Hundreds of clergy and lay persons participate in a silent march outside the Pentagon advocating for peace in Vietnam in 1965. As the march went on, nine Protestant, Catholic and Jewish religious leaders met with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to discuss the moral and ethical aspects of the Vietnam War and to urge negotiations for peace. The demonstration was sponsored by the Interreligious Committee on Vietnam. (RNS archive photo by Earl Pfohl. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Catholics march in a Wichita, Kansas, Fair Housing and Civil Rights demonstration in 1963. Joining with members of Protestant and Jewish congregations, Catholic groups took part in the seven-block march to the city hall where Mayor Gerald F. Byrd and the Human Relations Commissions heard their protests. Shown here are members of a Catholic Young Adults organization. The interreligious demonstration cited a “real estate curtain” which reportedly gave Wichita the reputation of “a leading city in segregated housing." (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
