Photos of the Week: Corpus Christi; Lord of Great Power

By Kit Doyle · May 31, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes South American commemorations of Corpus Christi and the Lord of Great Power festivals and more. People pray as they walk on a rug made of colored salt toward the Christ the Redeemer statue after a Catholic Mass celebrating Corpus Christi in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 30, 2024. Corpus Christi celebrates the tradition and belief of the Holy Eucharist, which for Christians represents the body and blood of Jesus Christ. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) A child in an angel costume covers her ear as fireworks go off over a Catholic procession celebrating Corpus Christi in Antigua, Guatemala, Thursday, May 30, 2024. Corpus Christi celebrates the tradition and belief of the Holy Eucharist, which for Christians represents the body and blood of Jesus Christ. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) Rio de Janeiro's Archbishop Orani Tempesta leads a Catholic Mass celebrating Corpus Christi at the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 30, 2024. Corpus Christi celebrates the tradition and belief of the Holy Eucharist, which for Christians represents the body and blood of Jesus Christ. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) Members of the United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe hold placards while protesting at the church premises in Harare, Thursday, May 30, 2024. The protests, which denounced homosexuality and the departure of the church from the scriptures and doctrine, come barely a month after the United Methodist Church Worldwide General Conference held in North Carolina, U.S. repealed their church's longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being ordained or appointed as ministers. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike where displaced people were staying in Rafah, Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024. Palestinian health workers said Israeli airstrikes killed at least 35 people in the area. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) "La Morenada" dancers perform in the annual parade honoring the "Lord of Great Power" in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday, May 25, 2024. Bolivians celebrate one of the country's biggest and most extravagant religious festivals which pays tribute to Jesus Christ in a fusion of Indigenous beliefs and Catholicism. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) A "Kullagua'' dancer performs in the annual parade honoring the "Lord of Great Power" in La Paz, Bolivia, May 25, 2024. Bolivians celebrate one of the country's biggest and most extravagant religious festivals, which pays tribute to Jesus Christ in a fusion of Indigenous beliefs and Catholicism. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) Grow It organizer Leah Reichardt-Osterkatz, right, helps children make smoothies from strawberries they picked, plus kale grown on the farm, at Spring Forest in Hillsborough, North Carolina, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Spring Forest is a working farm and a new United Methodist monastic community. (RNS photo/Yonat Shimron) Attendees listen to a presentation during the biennial Christ at the Checkpoint conference at Bethlehem Bible College in the West Bank in late May 2024. (Photo by Alaa Khoury/Bethlehem Bible College) Archival Photos This 40-year-old African artist has been responsible for a major “breakthrough” in the union of South Africa in Nov. 1964. Gladys Mgudlandlu was given a “one-woman show” which exhibited her art in Johannesburg to the country which follows a policy of strict apartheid, or racial segregation. A mixed throng of 200, whites and native Africans, attended the opening of her show, which exhibited some 100 paintings of the country’s best known non-white woman artist. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) A giant screen at Georgetown University projects a video of Pope Paul VI as he congratulates the school on the start of its 175th anniversary year in Sept. 1963. From his private library in the Vatican, the pontiff read a message in which he described the Jesuit institution as the alma mater of Catholic colleges in the U.S. The program was televised via the Telstar communications satellite on the Pope’s 66th birthday. Georgetown was founded in 1789, the same year in which the U.S. Constitution was adopted. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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