Photos of the Week: ICE demonstrations and more

By Kit Doyle · August 27, 2025
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes ICE's latest detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more. A Hindu woman performs evening rituals to the Sun god on Hartalika Teej festival at the Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, during this festival married women observe a day-long fast for the longevity of their husbands, while unmarried women observe a fast praying for a good husband in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Miami Dolphins players and coaches pray at the end of an NFL preseason football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center right, speaks during a demonstration in support of him at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) People attend a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) Kilmar Abrego Garcia enters the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) People attend a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) Muslim families watch kites of different shapes and sizes adorn the skies during the Colombo International Kite Festival, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) People gather for a prayer service outside the Delaney Hall detention center, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (RNS photo/Fiona Murphy) Attendees ask questions during a panel discussion at the Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen Summit, Aug. 20, 2025, at Salvation Army’s Medford Hall in New York City. (RNS photo/Fiona Murphy) A Sikh youth performs a traditional martial art known as Gatka during a religious procession to mark the anniversary of the installation of the Sikh holy book Guru Granth Sahib, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill) Archbishop of Kolkata, Thomas D'Souza, right front, stands next to Sister Christy, senior nun of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Saint Teresa, as he lights a candle on the tomb of the saint to mark her birth anniversary, in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) Archival Photos A group of Afghanistan refugees wait for supplies at a camp in Baluchistan, Pakistan, in 1980. Lutheran World Relief (LWR) -- which sent 100,000 quilts to Somalia in August 1979 -- shipped the same number to the Afghan exiles in Pakistan. They were made and collected by Lutherans in the United States and distributed by Church World Service. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) The Rev. Makary el Souriany of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, in the U.S. for a year's religious study at Princeton Theological Seminary, points to an African area where his ancient church has members in 1954. The Rev. Souriany, whose stay in the U.S. was sponsored by the National Council of Churches' Near East Committee, was believed to be first Coptic Christian monk to study in the U.S. Shown with him are: Frances Gray of New York, chairman of the Near East Committee, and the Rev. Russel Stevenson of New York, director of the committee. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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