Photos of the Week: Eid celebrations, Buddha’s birthday preparations
By Jessi Dodge · March 24, 2026
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes celebrations of Eid around the world, preparations for Buddha's birthday and more.
A family celebrates after performing Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Muslim worshippers attend Eid al-Fitr prayer, Friday, March 20, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
The Layene Brotherhood waits outside a mosque ahead of the Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Muslims perform Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ali Raza)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins the prayer before breaking fast at a Ramadan Iftar his team hosted at the New York Taxi Workers Association, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Muslims head to attend Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
The Veil of Veronica — a relic believed to be a piece of cloth that Veronica used to wipe the face of Jesus during his crucifixion, and said to bear the miraculous image of his face — is displayed to the faithful during a procession in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A worker, left top, attaches a name tag of a Buddhist who made a donation for the lantern display being installed for upcoming celebrations of Buddha's birthday on May 24, this year at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Archival Photos
The historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., on behalf of voting rights for African Americans sets out from Selma on March 21, 1965. The late Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is at center. Others in the front rank were, from left: John Lewis, president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Episcopal Deaconess Phyllis Edwards; the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, King's chief aide; the late Ralph J. Bunche, United Nations under-secretary general for special political affairs; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary; and the Rev. Frederick D. Reese, head of the Dallas County Voters League. The leaders wore flower leis sent by civil rights sympathizers in Hawaii. The Selma-to-Montgomery trek had been attempted twice in early March 1965, but had been stopped both times by Alabama State Troopers. King rallied the churches and other civil rights supporters to the Selma cause. Thousands responded and made the march to the Alabama capital. RNS archive photo by Wide World Photos Inc., courtesy Presbyterian Historical Society.
To bring the words of the Bible to a wide radio audience, T.L. Cashwell, Jr., spoke before a tape recorder for an estimated 98 hours. The pastor of the First Baptist Church of Albemarle, N.C., made 455 recordings of 13 minutes each over the course of 21 months. They were broadcast daily over Station WABZ. The series of readings began on March 13, 1961, and ended on Dec. 14, 1962. So popular was the program that WABZ began a second series on Dec. 17 — and the voice of Cashwell was heard again, on tape, in a reading of the entire Bible. RNS archive photo by Stanly News and Press, courtesy Presbyterian Historical Society.
