Photos of the Week: New archbishop of Canterbury, Palm Sunday
By Kit Doyle · April 1, 2026
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes the first female archbishop of Canterbury, the start of Holy Week and more.
Sarah Mullally, left, arrives for the Enthronement Ceremony installing her as archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury, England, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the first woman ever to lead the Church of England. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally speaks to the public after the Enthronement Ceremony in Canterbury, England, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, making her the first woman ever to lead the Church of England. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Young priests chant prayers during the oath taking ceremony of Nepal's youngest Prime Minister Balendra Shah at the Presidential building in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A devotee blows a horn at the shrine of Muslim Sufi saint Shah Hussain, to pay tribute during a three-day annual festival, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Catholics wait for a Palm Sunday Mass to begin in Santa Cruz Chinautla, Guatemala, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Catholic faithful collect palm fronds to commemorate Palm Sunday, outside St. Micheal's Cathedral, Sunday, March 29, 2026, in Minna, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Hooded penitents of the "Nuestro Padre Jesus Cautivo y Nuestra Senora de la Estrella" brotherhood take part in a Holy Week procession in Dona Mencia, southern Spain, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Catholics carry a religious float during a Friday of Sorrows procession marking the beginning of Holy Week observances in Panama City's Casco Viejo, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, holds a prayer service to mark Palm Sunday, following the cancellation of the traditional Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem on Sunday, March 29, 2026. (Ammar Awad/Pool Photo via AP)
Catholic faithful attend a Palm Sunday Mass at the Monastery of Saint Saviour in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Christians attend a Palm Sunday Mass in Gaza City, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Pope Leo XIV meets with the local Catholic community inside Monaco Cathedral in Monaco-Ville, Monaco, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Leo XIV listens to a youth choir while meeting a group of young people and catechumens in the square in front of Sainte Dévote Church in La Condamine, Monaco, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
An interfaith vigil is held in Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York, ahead of the city's No King's march on Saturday, March 28, 2026. (RNS photo/Fiona André)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather at a mountain spring on the outskirts of Jerusalem to collect water for baking matzah in preparation for the upcoming Passover holiday, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Archival Photos
A First Marine Division Jewish Passover Seder service is held in Korea, March 30, 1953. (RNS archive photo by U.S. Navy. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
The Rev. Donald J. Walton points to an outdoor bulletin board of De Witt Memorial Church, which carried Passover greetings to "our Jewish neighbors," in New York City in 1949. Walton also obtained recordings of the voice of a cantor singing Jewish songs. He broadcast the songs from the belfry of his non-denominational mission church during the Passover season. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
A billboard used to promote a National Pray for Peace Week during Holy Week, April 14-20, 1957, in Manitowoc, Wisc. (RNS archive photo by Orville Janssen. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
