Photos of the Week: Hong Kong bun festival, Catholic conclave

By Kit Doyle · May 7, 2025
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes an annual bun festival in Hong Kong, Catholic cardinals entering the conclave to elect the next pope and more. "Ping On" buns prepared for sale for the Bun Festival in Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) Children are hoisted up to take part in the Piu Sik Parade at the Bun Festival in Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong, Monday, May 5, 2025. Thousands of local residents and tourists flock to the outlying island in Hong Kong to celebrate the local bun festival, which features a parade with children dressed as deities floated on poles above the crowd. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) Worshippers burn incense at a temple during the Bun Festival in Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) Tables and chairs line the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in preparation for the conclave in early May 2025. (Photo © Vatican Media) A cardinal stands at the Vatican, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Hungarian Cardinal Péter Erdo, bottom center, speaks at St. Francesca Romana Church in Rome, May 4, 2025. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain) Faithful watch a giant screen showing images of cardinals entering the conclave, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Shane Claiborne speaks at a rally near the U.S. Supreme Court, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) President Donald Trump and other religious leaders listen to a musical performance before Trump signs an executive order during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) An Order of the Sunrise follower attends an annual ceremony known as the "Day of the Spiritual Indoctrinator," at the group's lakeside temple in Planaltina, Brazil, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) Order of the Sunrise followers take part in their annual ceremony known as the "Day of the Spiritual Indoctrinator," at their lakeside temple in Planaltina, Brazil, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama wears a ceremonial hat as he receives an offering at an event during which exiled Tibetans prayed for his longevity at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Supporters of charter schools rally outside of the Supreme Court on April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Archival Photos Father Raymond Guidry, one of eight Black Divine Word missionaries playing major roles in propagating the faith in Ghana, baptizes an infant in his parish of Odumase-Krobo in the Accra diocese in 1965. Guidry is a native of Louisiana who had been serving in Ghana since 1957. Divine Word Missionaries have been in Ghana since 1939. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Baptist churchwomen launched a prayer crusade in three eastern Arkansas counties in an attempt to halt the opening of a dog racetrack in West Memphis in 1956. In this photo, women form a prayer circle as they begin the crusade in Calvary Baptist Church. The crusade got under way in Crittenden County, where West Memphis is located, and in St. Francis and Cross Counties. (RNS archive photo by R.J. Clubb. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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