PHOTOS OF THE WEEK: Elections and protests in India, remembering Carmen Santiago Alonso
By Jessi Dodge · February 18, 2022
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK: Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s gallery includes elections abroad, protests and more.
Indian Muslim women shout slogans against banning Muslim girls wearing hijab from attending classes at some schools in the southern Indian state of Karnataka during a protest in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
A devotee prays by touching her head to the wall around the residence of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
Markings on the floor ensure social distancing as people wait to vote for the Goa state assembly elections in North Goa, India, Monday, Feb.14, 2022. Goa is one of five Indian states voting in phases in a test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party ahead of general elections expected in 2024. (AP Photo/Vineeta Deepak)
A man with a Bible stands amid the debris of homes destroyed by mudslides on the third day of rescue efforts in Petropolis, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Carmen Santiago Alonso, who died in early February, was a Catholic missionary known for her advocacy for Indigenous voices and water rights under the natural pressure of droughts and human pressures such as mining. Photo by Noel Rojo
Police officers stand guard at a mosque where an enraged mob stoned to death Mushtaq Ahmed, 41, for allegedly desecrating the Quran, in Tulamba, a remote village in the district of Khanewal in eastern Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. Mob attacks on people accused of blasphemy are common in this conservative Islamic nation where the crime is punishable by death. (AP Photo/Asim Tanveer)
Presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse delivers her speech during a campaign rally, Feb. 13, 2022, in Paris. Last weekend, Pecresse used the term "great replacement" at her first major rally, bringing condemnation for referring to the false claim that Muslims one day will replace Christian civilization and its values with an Islamic way of life. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Relatives carry the body of Mushtaq Ahmed, 41, who was killed by enraged mob for allegedly desecrating the Quran, in Tulamba, a village in the district of Khanewal in eastern Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. Mob attacks on people accused of blasphemy are common in this conservative Islamic nation where the crime is punishable by death. (AP Photo/Asim Tanveer)
Al-Zahraa Layek Helmee is surrounded by fans at the annual Cairo International Book Fair, in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 4, 2022. Helmee, a rare female reciter of the Quran, has 1.2 million followers on Facebook, but critics reprimand her, urging her to “fear God” or arguing that her voice can tempt men, an idea she rejects. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
