Photos of the Week: St. George’s Day, Sudan civil war
By Kit Doyle · April 29, 2026
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes St. George's Day, the Sudanese civil war and more.
Muslims perform zikr, a Sufi devotional practice, inside the war-damaged Sheikh GaribAllah Mosque in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Sufi Muslims walk out of the war-damaged Sheikh GaribAllah Mosque after Friday prayers in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and boys, who oppose Zionism and the Israeli state, take part in a protest against Israel's Independence Day in the Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, as Israel marks 78 years since its creation. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Morris dancers perform to celebrate St. George's Day outside a church in London, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Devotees watch a drone presentation forming an image of St. George on his feast day outside the Saint George Church in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
A woman sheds tears while praying at the St. George Church on the saint's feast day in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Aerial view of the Buddhist Jigaon monastery in Sherdukpen village in West Kameng, Arunachal Pradeshin, India, Sunday, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir temple Hindu monks walk after performing a Puja ceremony, a traditional blessing ritual for the groundbreaking ceremony for the official home field for the Los Angeles Knight Riders cricket team for 2026, and the future venue of the LA 2028 Olympics Fairgrounds Cricket Stadium at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, Calif., Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Carmen Casado, 84, is served a free meal of ground meat, rice, red beans and crackers through a program run by the Church of the Holy Spirit at a dining hall adjacent to the Catholic church in Old Havana, Cuba, Thursday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
The Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon Monsignor Paolo Borgia, center, poses with residents next to a crucifix sent by Italy to replace one that was defaced last week by an Israeli soldier in the Christian village of Debel, south Lebanon, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Houssam Naddaf via AP)
Archival Photos
Twenty local white ministers joined 30 Black pastors in Oakland, Calif., in praying for divine guidance for President Eisenhower in the school integration crisis at Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. Shown kneeling in prayer are left to right: the Rev. Richard Foster, the Rev. Matthew Votruba, the Rev. Peter Washington, the Rev. Walter Mueller and the Rev. Wayne Kessel. After praying together, the group sent a telegram to the president commending him for assuming moral leadership in the Little Rock situation. (RNS archive photo by Jem Edelen. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
The first of a number of Japanese cherry trees to be presented to churches across the country in recognition of their support of the new Japan International University are planted in the parsonage yard of Haddonfield Methodist Church in Haddonfield, N.J., in March 1954. Present at the ceremony were, left to right: Miss Jimmy Lofland, vice president of Methodist Youth Fellowship; Mrs. Edward H. Clement, II, president of Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service; Dr. Stanley I. Stuber of New York, general secretary of the Japan International Christian University Foundation, the fundraising agency for the Japan university; Dr. Lynn H. Corson, minister of the Haddonfield church; and in front holding the tree, Richard V. Ford, lay representative of the church. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
