Photos of the Week: SBC meeting, Muslim unrest over India
By Kit Doyle · June 17, 2022
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Anaheim, Muslim unrest around the world following negative comments by a spokesperson of India's governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and more.
Messengers vote at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Photo by Justin L. Stewart/Religion News Service
Hands raised in prayer during worship at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Photo by Justin L. Stewart/Religion News Service
SBC president-elect Bart Barber speaks during a press conference early Wednesday, June 15, 2022, during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Anaheim, California. Photo by Justin L. Stewart/Religion News Service
Abuse survivors Debbie Vasquez, from left, Jules Woodson and Tiffany Thigpen turn to watch as messengers vote on a resolution in favor of sexual abuse victims during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, on June 15, 2022. Photo by Justin L. Stewart/Religion News Service
Messengers bow in prayer before lunch at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, on June 15, 2022. Photo by Justin L. Stewart/Religion News Service
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, addresses the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in Anaheim, California. Photo by Justin L. Stewart/Religion News Service
A messenger votes during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Photo by Justin L. Stewart/Religion News Service
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Activists hold up banners in both English and Maltese reading, 'I decide', 'Abortion is a woman's right', and 'Abortion is healthcare, not a crime', as they stand outside the Maltese law courts in Valletta, Malta, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. A coalition of abortion rights activists filed a legal protest in Malta’s courts on Wednesday demanding the legalization of abortion in the island nation that is the only European Union member where the procedure is criminalized. (AP Photo/Kevin Schembri Orland)
Supporters of Mohammad El Halabi hold a Palestinian flag and placards as protesters wave Israeli flags outside the district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, June 15, 2022. The court found the Gaza aid worker guilty of several terrorism charges. El Halabi, who was the Gaza director for the Christian charity World Vision until his arrest in 2016, was accused of diverting tens of millions of dollars to the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules the territory. Both El Halabi and World Vision have denied any wrongdoing, and an independent audit in 2017 also found no evidence of support for Hamas. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Church members console each other after a shooting at the Saint Stevens Episcopal Church on Thursday, June 16, 2022 in Vestavia, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Indonesian Muslims shout slogans against Nupur Sharma, a spokesperson for India's governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, who is acccused of making derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, outside the India Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Muslims protest against Nupur Sharma, a spokesperson of India's governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, who is accused of making derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, during a protest outside a mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Thousands of people marched in Bangladesh’s capital on Thursday to demand the governments of Bangladesh and India officially condemn the comments by Sharma and another Indian official deemed derogatory to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
Muslim students shout anti-government slogans during a protest outside Uttar Pradesh house, in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 13, 2022. The students were protesting persecution of Muslims and demolitions of houses following last week's protests against former Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Muslims shout slogans against Nupur Sharma, a spokesperson for India's governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, in response to Sharma's derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, during a protest outside a mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Thousands of people marched in Bangladesh’s capital on Thursday to demand the governments of Bangladesh and India officially condemn the comments by Sharma and another BJP official. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
Archival Photos
Liberian Vice President William R. Tolbert, Jr. addresses a plenary session of the 11th Baptist World Congress before a large image of an open Bible with the meeting's theme: "And the Truth Shall Make You Free" from John 8:32, in Miami Beach, Florida, on June 25, 1965. RNS archive photo by Bill Sanders. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
A Methodist Church being built by service men of the 1343rd Engineer Combat Battalion, Eighth Army, as a project of the United States Armed Forces Assistance to Korea Program, in Sindo, Korea, on June 2, 1954. It is one of a number of war-devastated churches rebuilt by the Army as part of its program to assist Korean rehabilitation. RNS archive photo by U.S. Army. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
