Photos of the Week: Druze communities, Alligator Alcatraz
By Kit Doyle · July 23, 2025
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Druze communities, praying the rosary at Alligator Alcatraz and more.
Newlyweds Jamaica Agular, left, and Jade Rick Verdillo walk hand-in-hand during their wedding at the flooded Barasoain church in Malolos, Bulacan province, Philippines on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A devotee with steel tridents pierced through his cheeks as part of a ritual during an annual pilgrimage to the temple of Hindu goddess Sheetla Mata in Jammu, India, Sunday, July 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Hindu worshippers of Lord Shiva, known as Kanwarias, pray after a holy dip in the Ganges river during a pilgrimage in Prayagraj, India, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Pilgrims attend a Mass celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at the namesake church in the Pétion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Druze clerics take part in a gathering of minority religious leaders in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 18, 2025, as they speak about sectarian clashes between Druze factions, Sunni Muslim Bedouin clans and government forces in Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Druze from Syria hug relatives from the Israeli Druze community before crossing the border in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Motorcycles ridden by Knights on Bikes are parked in front of the entrance to “Alligator Alcatraz,” an immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades, on July 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski)
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami and Knights on Bikes pray the rosary for detainees at the entrance to Alligator Alcatraz, a controversial immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades, July 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski)
A gust of wind blows Pope Leo XIV's mantel at the end of the noon Angelus prayer in the square in front of the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Catholics pray during the feast day of the St. Mary Magdalene at the Church of St. Matthew the Apostle Evangelist in the small town Veivirzenai, Lithuania, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Catholics take part in a procession during the feast day of the St. Mary Magdalene in the small town Veivirzenai, 185 miles northwest of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Archival Photos
Santa Claus waves to youngsters during the celebration of Christmas in July for campers and counselors of Operation F.U.N., a five-week summer day camp of the Brooklyn Diocese’s Catholic Charities Office for the Handicapped, at Christ the King High School in Queens, New York, in 1975. Operation F.U.N. provided recreational, physical and social activities for persons of all ages with intellectual disabilities and for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. In 1975, about 700 teenage volunteers served more than 800 campers. In addition, there were some 70 religious and lay adult volunteers in the program. (RNS archive photo by Bill Mitchell. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Korean Protestants were brought by the LST, or Landing Ship, Tank, to the port city of Incheon, Korea, from Tientsin, China, in May 1948. The Koreans, like those standing on their home soil in the foreground, originally fled Korea to escape Japanese persecution. (RNS archive photo by U.S. Army. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
