Photos of the Week: International Day of Yoga, Syrian church bombing

By Kit Doyle · June 25, 2025
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes International Day of Yoga, a deadly church bombing in Syria and more. Women at a yoga studio perform an exercise on International Day of Yoga in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) Yoga practitioners gather to mark International Yoga Day at the Santamaria Bullring in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) A Hindu holy man displays yoga skills on International Day of Yoga at Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) People rest their plastic hammers on a ledge while watching flying lanterns soar above the Douro river as the northern Portugal city of Porto gears up to celebrate Saint John feast, Monday evening, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Helena Alves) Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., is seen at the start of a service June 17, 2025, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the massacre there. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins) Syrians gather inside Mar Elias church where a suicide bomber detonated himself in Dweil'a in the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) Mourners carry the coffins of victims killed in Sunday’s suicide bombing at Mar Elias Church during a funeral procession at al-Saleeb Church in the al-Qasaa neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) Shiite Muslims take part in a rally to condemn Israeli strikes on Iran, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan) An Israeli security forces member, right, kisses a Jewish Torah scroll removed from a damaged synagogue hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) New Jewish immigrants from Spain, England, France and the Netherlands disembark from an airplane a day after the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, as they arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) Archival Photos Archbishop Peter T. Doi, papal legate to Japan, bears the right arm relic of St. Francis Xavier in St. Ignatius Church in Tokyo, on June 8, 1949. The Holy relic was flown to Japan from Rome for the 400th anniversary observances of St. Francis Xavier’s arrival in Japan. (RNS archive photo by the U.S. Army. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Members of Cross of Glory Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Center, Minn., display an electronic organ they were building in 1981. The instrument, a year-long project which they hoped to complete in time for the congregation’s 25th anniversary that April, included electronic chimes, a piano, a public address system and a hearing-aid device with its own transmitter. (RNS archive photo by W.L. Thorkelson. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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