Photos of the Week: Eid al-Adha; International Yoga Day

By Kit Doyle · June 21, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the Eid al-Adha holiday, International Yoga Day and more. Hindu holy men display their yoga skills on International Day of Yoga at the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, Assam, India, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) People practice yoga in Times Square, Thursday, June 20, 2024, in New York. (Photo courtesy Nikita Bhasin) People practice yoga in an International Yoga Day event organized by the Embassy of India, at the Youth and Sports Ministry in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) People wearing traditional Russian village-style clothes celebrate the summer solstice near a bonfire in the village of Okunevo, about 125 miles northeast of the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia, in Okunevo, Russia, late Thursday, June 20, 2024. The festivities of Ivan Kupala, or John the Baptist, are similar to Mardi Gras and reflect pre-Christian Slavic traditions and practices. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Sofiychuk) Devout Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers at the Jama Masjid, in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 17, 2024. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha by sacrificing animals to commemorate the prophet Ibrahim's faith in being willing to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Kashmiri Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers outside the Hazratbal shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, June 17, 2024. One of the biggest Islamic holidays, the occasion commemorates Prophet Ibrahim’s test of faith through slaughtering livestock and animals and distributing the meat to the poor. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) Men prepare to slaughter a cow whose meat would later be distributed to the needy during the celebration of Eid al-Adha in Selayang, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, June 17, 2024. Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, is celebrated by Muslims around the world to commemorate Prophet Ibrahim's test of faith. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) Faithful pray while attending a Mass recognizing the efforts of soup kitchen volunteers and priests who serve low-income neighborhoods amid the government's restrictions on distribution of subsidized food to soup kitchens, at the Virgin of Caacupé sanctuary, in La Matanza, Argentina, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun as they arrive to cast stones at pillars in the symbolic stoning of the devil, the last rite of the annual hajj, in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Muslim pilgrims were wrapping up the Hajj pilgrimage in the deadly summer heat on Tuesday with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the farewell circling around Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Archival Photos Nicholas Apostolopoulos, 24, of Toronto, holds up a cross triumphantly after retrieving it from the chilly waters of Lake Ontario prior to returning it to Metropolitan Athenagoras, center, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Canada, in Sept. 1963, in Burlington, Ontario. Ten swimmers dived into the lake to recover the religious article during the annual Festival of the Holy Cross. More than 5,000 persons, some from New York, were present at the traditional Greek ceremony which commemorates the Baptism of Christ. In Greece, the rite is usually held in January, but in North America the festival takes place during warmer months. (RNS archive photo by Ron Lowman. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Delegates to the first International Conference of Christian Press Associations are shown in session at World Council headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1946. Editors came from Denmark, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Hungary, England, Italy, Czechoslovakia and the United States to discuss methods of improving the gathering and transmission of religious news throughout the world. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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