Photos of the Week: Minneapolis church shooting memorial, India flooding

By Kit Doyle · September 3, 2025

(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes a memorial for victims of a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis, extreme flooding in India and more.

A group with the Catholic Women's Association and Action for Change in Cameroon sing a hymn at the memorial outside Annunciation Catholic Church, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

People gather at a vigil at Lynnhurst Park after a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

A child is embraced as people visit a makeshift memorial Aug. 29, 2025, at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis after the Aug. 27 shooting there during a Mass attended by students of the affiliated school. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

The flags circling the Washington Monument fly at half-staff in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, following the shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A man prepares camels for slaughter to celebrate Mawlid, the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

A porter walks past a deserted area in Karta, the starting point for the pilgrimage to the holy Vaishno Devi Temple, a revered Hindu shrine where many are feared dead after a landslide last week following incessant rains, India, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

A passenger sits under a tree, waiting for the railway services to resume after severe flooding disrupts train operations in Jammu, India, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. Many Hindu pilgrims are feared to have died in recent flooding. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

The overflowing Chenab River after heavy rains, in Akhnoor, India, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Many Hindu pilgrims are feared to have died due to recent extreme flooding. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Protestors join for the March on Wall Street on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (RNS Photo/Fiona André)

Devotees toss letters into a wishing well at the sanctuary of patron Saint Rose of Lima, as part of a tradition marking her feast day, in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A woman prays at a tree that was struck by lightning years ago and has since been considered sacred, at the General Cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Archival Photos

The Rev. Carter Heyward, center left, and the Rev. Suzanne Hiatt, right, two of the 11 Episcopal women irregularly ordained in July 1974, celebrate the Eucharist at the Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole, Mass., Cape Cod’s oldest Episcopal church, on July 20, 1975. The two women, both faculty members of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridges, Mass., conducted the service against the wishes of Bishop John M. Burgess of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)

Demonstrators supporting the Equal Rights Amendment wave signs and shout slogans as they rally on July 14, 1980, outside the Republican Convention in Detroit. The GOP later adopted a platform that dropped the party’s commitment to the ERA. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)