Photos of the Week: Mormon church shooting vigil, living goddess

By Kit Doyle · September 30, 2025
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes a vigil after a mass shooting at a Mormon church in Michigan, a newly appointed living goddess in Nepal and more. Emergency crews respond to a shooting and fire at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Grand Blanc, Mich., Sept. 28, 2025. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP) Attendees hold candles during a vigil for a nearby church shooting, held at Holy Redeemer Church in Burton, Mich., Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez) Fire and law enforcement officers work the scene of a shooting and fire at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025 in Grand Blanc Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men of the Kiryat Sanz Hassidic sect participate in a Tashlich ceremony on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Netanya, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Nepal's newly appointed living goddess, Kumari Aryatara Shakya, is carried by her father as they walk towards Kumari Ghar, the temple palace where she will reside in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) Nepalese people along with tourists watch as Nepal's newly appointed living goddess, Kumari Aryatara Shakya, is carried toward Kumari Ghar, the temple palace where she will reside in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) A Hindu priest performs rituals during the Durga Puja festival at a temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu) A man performs Aarti rituals wearing a framed costume decorated with oil lamps on the fifth night of Navratri, the nine-night festival celebration, in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Traditional drummers from distant villages wait to be hired to perform during the Hindu festival Durga Puja, in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) Most Rev. Fr. James F. Checchio meets students at St. Catherine of Siena in Metairie during his introduction as the next archbishop of New Orleans on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in New Orleans. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) Bishop Matthew Heyd, left, leads the installation ceremony of the Rev. Winnie Varghese, right, as the new dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York. (Photo by Maike Shulz) Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza Strip carrying their belongings along the coastal road, near Wadi Gaza, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Archival Photos Picketers from the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania march outside Girard College in Philadelphia to protest the school's policy of limiting enrollment to poor, white orphan boys, on Sept. 26, 1965. After demonstrating since May, the picket line was removed in late September 1965 after Gov. William Scranton appointed two lawyers to seek a court review of the will of Stephen Girard, which set the enrollment restrictions. A final demonstration of song and prayer ended the picketing. (RNS archive photo by George Riley. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Thirty-thousand people attend the Hollywood Bowl to take part in an hour of prayer for peace and the conversion of Russia to Christian principles on May 2, 1948, in Los Angeles. The observance was called "Mary's Hour" and drew the largest crowd in Bowl history to that point. (RNS archive photo by Larry Sharkey. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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