Photos of the Week: Holi, Purim, Patty’s Day celebrations
By Roxanne Stone · March 18, 2025
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes celebrations for Holi, Purim, St. Patrick's Day and more.
Indians dance in clouds of powdered colors as they celebrate Holi in Guwahati, India, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
People perform rituals around a sacred fire called 'Holi ka dahan' during Holi festival celebrations in Palaj village near Gandhinagar, India, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Indian women cover each other with colored powder during celebrations marking Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Friday, March 14, 2025 (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Bishops process in to begin the Installation Mass of Cardinal Robert McElroy as the eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)
Mike Van Vleck, left, and Gail Dowdle talk while volunteering at the Christian Science Reading Room in downtown Overland Park, Kansas, Friday, March 14, 2025. (RNS photo/Kit Doyle)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children and men, some wearing costumes, celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Haifa, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim in Mea Shearim, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Shiites break the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
People pray prior to an iftar meal at J.R. Tucker High School in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Photo by Dilshad Ali)
Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan has his photograph taken with people at the 264th New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade, Monday, March 17, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Tango dancers perform for Pope Francis outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Demonstrators organized by Jewish Voice for Peace protest inside Trump Tower in support of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, March 13, 2025, in New York. (RNS photo/Fiona André)
Archival Photos
The New Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, is filled with Muslims bowing in prayer as they mark Eid al-Fitr, the final day Ramadan, on Feb. 2, 1965. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Artist Norman Kraus fashions a Holy Land scene out of sand in a San Diego shopping center in 1980. Kraus, who spends part of each summer fascinating bathers at local beaches with intricately designed sand castles, used 80 tons of sand to complete his 45-foot-in-diameter biblical vista. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
