Photos of the Week: Bloody Sunday anniversary; Ash Wednesday

By Roxanne Stone · March 12, 2025

(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, Ash Wednesday and more.

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, from left, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the Rev. Al Sharpton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and NAACP President Derrick Johnson march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

People march during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

A woman participates in a church service at the Tabernacle Baptist Church during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Tibetans pray during a candlelight vigil at Liberty Square in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, March 10, 2025, to mark the 66th anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Hare Krishna devotees kick off their week-long Holi festivities by singing and marching the streets in Austin, Texas, on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Photo by Patrick M. Davis)

A man burns old palm fronds to be used for Ash Wednesday rites at the Our Lady of Consolation Parish in Quezon city, Philippines, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Mexican painter Roberto Marquez places a painting of Pope Francis he made outside the Agostino Gemelli Hospital in Rome, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Devotees with ash crosses on their foreheads light candles during Ash Wednesday rites on March 5, 2025, at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, Philippines, as Catholics in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation observe the start of Lent. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

The Rev. William Barber speaks during an Ash Wednesday demonstration against the Trump administration on Capitol Hill, March 5, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)

The Rev. Matthew Heyd, the 17th Episcopal Bishop of New York, center, talks to people as he offers Ashes to Go at Grand Central Station on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

People attend an AI-created service at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Helsinki, Finland, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

People prepare their meal before breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Old City of Jaffa, Israel, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Archival Photos

State troopers swing billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965, on what became known as Bloody Sunday. (AP Photo, File)

Mrs. Rebecca Brickner, an 87-year-old Judaic scholar and leader, blesses her son, Rabbi Balfour Brickner (kneeling), during an installation service at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York on Oct. 10, 1981. Also pictured at the service are Rabbi Brickner’s sons, Adam and Barney, on either side of him; Stanley Slom, President of the Stephen Wise Synagogue, far right; and Rabbi Edward E. Klein, left. Rabbi Brickner, a world figure in interreligious and social action efforts, succeeded Senior Rabbi Klein as head of the urban congregation. (RNS archive photo by Odette Lupis. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)