Photos of the Week: anti-ICE demonstrations, New Year’s rituals

By Kit Doyle · January 14, 2026

(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes rituals for the New Year, demonstrations against ICE after the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis and more.

Participants bathe in ice-cold water to purify their souls and pray for good health during a New Year's ritual at Teppozu Inari Shrine in Tokyo, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Bulgarians perform an ancient Surva pagan ritual around a blazing bonfire in the village of Svetlya, late Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, marking the New Year with masked dances meant to chase away evil spirits and bring health, fertility and prosperity. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

People participate in a singing vigil that started at San Pablo — St. Paul Lutheran Church, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)

People gather around a makeshift memorial honoring Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer, near the site of the shooting in Minneapolis, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)

Bishop Dwayne Royster, right, asks attendees to call their elected officials during a vigil assembled by interfaith network Faith in Action, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in front of the White House in Washington. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)

A group of Indigenous leaders were among the tens of thousands gathered in Minneapolis' Powderhorn Park on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, to protest ICE's presence in the city and the fatal shooting of Renee Good. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)

People participate in a singing vigil at San Pablo — St. Paul Lutheran Church, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)

Pope Leo XIV, top, leads a consitory with cardinals in the Paul VI Hall, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, at the Vatican. (Photo © Vatican News)

People attend an interfaith concert, hosted by Faith in Peace Concerts and Faith in Public Life, at Lutheran Church of the Reformation, Jan. 6, 2026, in Washington. (RNS photo/Aminah Malik)

Catholic devotees walk beside a glass-covered carriage carrying the image of Jesus Nazareno during the annual procession in Manila, Philippines, on the feast day, Friday Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Archival Photos

Notre Dame's Fighting Irish leave little doubt as to which team they believe is best in the country as they hoist coach Ara Parseghian atop their shoulders following their thrilling 24-23 victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, Dec. 31, 1973, in New Orleans. With the victory and the subsequent picking of Notre Dame as the nation's No. 1 college football team by sports writers, Parseghian, a 50-year-old Armenian Presbyterian, joined two of the greatest of coaches, the late Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy, among the hierarchy of Notre Dame immortals. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)

The United Nations Security Council votes to extend the mandate of the international peace-keeping force in the Golan Heights for another six months and to invite the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in Security Council talks on the Mideast in November 1975. The resolution was passed 13-0, with China and Iraq declining to vote. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)