Photos of the Week: Cooking kimchi, Turkey preps for Pope Leo
By Kit Doyle · November 19, 2025
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes cooking kimchi for the poor, preparations for Pope Leo XIV's trip to Turkey and more.
Devotees pray with lamps during a ritual of Rakher Upobash, a Hindu religious festival that involves a daylong fast and overnight prayer seeking spiritual purification, honoring Hindu saint Loknath Brahmachari, at a temple in Chakla, West Bengal, India, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Players from both teams pray after an NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Miami Dolphins in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Pope Leo XIV hosts a lunch for the poor in Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
French pilgrims look at archaeological excavations of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian Saint Neophytos Basilica, in İznik, also known by its ancient name Nicaea, northwestern Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, ahead of the visit by Pope Leo XIV to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Catholic priest the Rev. Father Andrew, center, blesses worshippers during a Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, ahead of a visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A Buddhist monk and followers make kimchi, a traditional pungent vegetable dish, to donate to needy neighbors, at Jogye Temple in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff Police detain an individual wearing a clerical collar outside an ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Bishop Joseph Strickland, right, leads prayers near the USCCB meeting Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Baltimore. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)
Archival Photos
An infantryman of the 1st Division leads a hymn as soldiers sit under rubber trees for 1965 Thanksgiving services at Lai Khe, Vietnam, headquarters of the division's Third Brigade. Chaplain (Capt.) Jon Friend of Sunnyside, Wash., plays the organ. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
The Salvation Army celebrates outside the Kenyatta Center in Nairobi, Kenya, during a gathering of 6,000 members of the Salvation Army from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in 1975. (RNS archive photo by John Taylor. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
