Photos of the Week: Hajj and Eid al-Adha preparations, Dalai Lama’s longevity

By Kit Doyle · June 4, 2025
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Hajj and Eid al-Adha preparations, the longevity of the Dalai Lama and more. A man with his face painted during a traditional guardian spirit ceremony called He Neak Ta in Phum Boeung village, northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) Workers pray before a news conference at the Pump Station 1 on Monday, June 2, 2025, located near Deadhorse, Alaska, on the state's prodigious North Slope. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) Police arrest the Rev. William Barber II, center left, and Suvya Carroll, center right, in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Monday, June 2, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) Palestinians carry bags filled with food and humanitarian aid provided by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama presides over an event during which exiled Tibetans prayed for his longevity in Dharamshala, India, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Exiled Tibetans carry ceremonial offerings, rear, as Tibetan Buddhist monks in ceremonial hats pray for the longevity of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Indian livestock sellers wash sheep at a river bank before selling them ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) Saudi workers embroider Islamic calligraphy, using either pure silver thread or gold-plated silver thread, during the final stages in preparing a drape, or Kiswa, that covers the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure at the heart the Grand Mosque, at the Kiswa factory in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) Muslim pilgrims prepare to enter the Grand Mosque, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) People attend the Param Pratishtha, or inauguration ceremony, of the new Jain Society of Metropolitan Washington temple complex in Beltsville, Md., Sunday, June 1, 2025. (RNS photo/Richa Karmarkar) Archival Photos Throughout the summer, Bible sessions gather at lake resorts or other vacation spots to combine recreation with worship. Here, the director of recreation leads a group of young people in singing hymns as a clergyman looks on in 1949. (RNS archive photo by Samuel J. Hatfield. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Australian Protestant and Catholic church leaders and members of family organizations carry placards reading messages like "Jesus Christ is the solution to moral pollution" and "God made Jack for Jill, not Jack for Bill." They demonstrate outside Parliament House in Sydney, Australia, in 1981, against a proposed sodomy law. (RNS archive photo by Ramon Williams. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Related Stories
Photos of the Week: Five years after George Floyd, vigil for Israeli Embassy staffers
By Kit Doyle
Photos of the Week: Severe weather damage to churches, Shinto festival
By Kit Doyle
Photos of the Week: First American pope, Buddha’s birthday
By Kit Doyle
Pope Leo XIV Election in Photos
By Kit Doyle
Photos of the Week: Hong Kong bun festival, Catholic conclave
By Kit Doyle