(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes commemorations of Holy Week, Easter and Passover.
President Donald Trump participates in the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A man carries a cross during the "Way of the Cross" over the Brooklyn Bridge on Good Friday, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
Sepuh Sargsyan, archbishop and prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Diocese of Tehran, blesses a child after Easter Sunday Mass at Saint Sarkis Cathedral in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Archbishop Paul D. Etienne baptizes a candidate during an Easter vigil at St. James Cathedral, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray during the priestly blessing on the Jewish holiday of Passover at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City, largely empty due to restrictions linked to the Iran war, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice protesters gather around an anti-ICE banner during a Passover Seder held at Union Square on April 6, 2026, in Manhattan. (RNS photo/Fiona André)
Families celebrate Passover Eve dinner in an underground shelter, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews participate in the "biur chametz," a burning leavened food ritual, in final preparation for the Passover holiday in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
A statue of Jesus Christ with a cross is carried by penitents knows as "cucuruchos" in La Merced church's Good Friday procession during Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A hooded Filipino flagellant walks along a street as part of Maundy Thursday rituals to atone for sins or fulfill vows for an answered prayer on April 2, 2026 in Mandaluyong, Philippines as they practice bizarre lenten rituals frowned upon by the church in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Artemis II pilot Victor Glover speaks about the role of Easter and the importance of unity across beliefs on Earth on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four-person crew was on their way to looping around the moon. (Video screen grab)
Kerry Auld wears a pigeon themed hat during the Easter Bonnet Parade on Fifth Avenue, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Worshippers carry a figure of Jesus Christ during an Easter procession through Panama City's old town, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
President Donald Trump sits down with children as he participates in the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Archival Photos
Chaplain Capt. Kenneth G. Irwin, of Los Angeles, leads an Easter morning sunrise service in the medical battalion area of the U.S. Army Second Infantry Division in 1951 in Korea. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
New York's Easter parade passes between Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral in this striking vantage point above Fifth Avenue in 1963. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Caught up in the excitement of the crowds around them, two girls with flower baskets and festive attire prepare to join New York's annual Easter Parade in the early 1980s. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
