Photos of the Week: Srebrenica genocide anniversary, Castel Gandolfo
By Kit Doyle · July 15, 2025
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia, Pope Leo XIV in Castel Gandolfo and more.
Dan Beazley, left, holds a large cross as he prays with visitors at a memorial for flood victims on Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Kathleen List, director of global legal programs for the International Refugee Assistance Program, along with several representatives from Church World Service were on hand at Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Thursday, July 10, 2025, to greet a Congolese refugee, who goes by “Pacito,” and his family who arrived in the United States. (RNS photo/Yonat Shimron)
Police stand at the front of the Richmond Road Baptist Church as other officers maintain a perimeter following a shooting at the church in Lexington, Kentucky, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
A woman mourns next to the grave of her relative, a victim of the Srebrenica genocide, at the Memorial Center in Potocari, Bosnia, Friday, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Bosnian Muslim men carry coffins containing the remains of seven newly identified victims of the Srebrenica genocide at the Memorial Center in Potocari, Bosnia, Friday, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
A Buddhist monk, foreground, beats a giant drum at a pagoda after the three locations used by Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago were added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List, at the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and Pope Leo XIV wave to journalists during their meeting in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful as he arrives to celebrate a Mass inside the St. Thomas of Villanova church in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
The dome of a Catholic church stands cracked in Santa Maria de Jesus, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, following dozens of earthquakes and aftershocks. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Zelouaz, Algeria dancers perform on the last day of the Sebeiba festival in Djanet, a southeastern Algerian oasis town in the Sahara desert, on July 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Audrey Thibert)
Archival Photos
Young Jewish participants in a United Jewish Appeal study mission to Eastern Europe, Austria and Israel, view a model of reconstructed Jerusalem before touring the city in 1981. The three-week journey of American youths – organized around the theme, "From Holocaust to Rebirth" — included in-depth encounters with other students and leaders, where they learned the effects of the Holocaust on Eastern European Jewry and the significance of Israel as an independent state. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
A Brazilian girl of Japanese descent is greeted by Pope John Paul II during a July 3, 1980, visit to a school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Earlier during a visit among the poor in Rio de Janeiro, the pontiff told an enthusiastic audience that while the church wished to play no role in politics, in intended to "serve the cause of justice" and use its voice "to summon consciences, guard people and their liberty, demand the necessary remedies." (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
