(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes the Ebola crisis in Africa, Spain preparing for Pope Leo XIV and more.
A Hindu woman performs rituals at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna, in Prayagraj, India, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Nuns cheer before the first half of Game 6 in the Western Conference finals NBA basketball playoffs series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder, Thursday, May 28, 2026, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)
Parade participants wave flags to the crowd during the Israel Day Parade, Sunday, May 31, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Emil T. Lippe)
A view of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, May 30, 2026, ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Barcelona in June. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A nun kisses Pope Leo XIV's hand as he leaves after leading the rosary for peace at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens to mark the conclusion of the Marian month of May, Saturday, May 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Chief Justice Commissioner of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission, Yeshi Wangmo, left, administers the oath of office to Penpa Tsering, right, as the political leader of Tibet's government-in-exile, in the presence of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, in Dharamshala, India, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/ Shailesh Bhatnagar)
A Samaritan Purse’s 767 cargo plane is unloaded in Uganda. The plane was carrying an Ebola treatment center that will be assembled in Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo courtesy Samaritan’s Purse)
Family members of an Ebola victim mourn as the coffin is taken away for burial, at Sofepadi Hospital in Bunia, Congo, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Muslim pilgrims perform the farewell circumambulation called Tawaf al-Wada, around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, at the Grand Mosque during the final rites of the annual hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Buddhists congregate to make offerings after a Dharma session during a celebration of Buddha's birthday at Ksitigarbha Temple, Sunday, May 24, 2026, in Lynnwood, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshippers pray at Gerji Saint Mary Church during the general election in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Amanuel Sileshi)
Archival Photos
Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson, leader of the 75,000-member Church of God, in front of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx in Egypt in 1966. Bishop W. R. (Bill) Rogers, left, of Fulton, Mo., blows a 37-inch horn of a Texas Longhorn to proclaim his candidacy for the U.S. presidency on the Theocratic Party ticket in 1968. Other members of the group include Bishop Roy Bullen and his wife, at right. Tomlinson was on his way to Jerusalem, where he intended to set up a throne and proclaim himself "King of the World…in Righteousness." Tomlinson and Rogers ran around the Great Pyramid seven times — as Joshua marched around Jericho. In the U.S., Rogers circled courthouses and claimed the buildings would collapse if there was "corruption" inside. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Pope John Paul II, left, gestures during a May 25, 1981, conversation with Rose Hall, right, one of two women wounded in an assassination attempt on the pope on May 13, 1981, in Rome. Hall visited the pope with her husband, Kenneth, a Church of God minister from Alcoa, Tenn., and her mother, Christina Choirniere, of Shirley Mass., after being discharged from nearby Santo Spirito Hospital. The Halls were scheduled to return to their home in West Germany after the visit. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
