(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the 60th anniversary of the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Hindu and Buddhist festivals in Nepal and more. 
Rice is thrown as an offering on an idol of Buddha during the Pancha Dan festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Pancha Dan, the festival of five summer gifts, is a day when devotees donate five commodities they consider essential for their well being, which are unhusked paddy, rice grains, pulses, salt and money. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) 
Devotees surround idols of Buddha during the Pancha Dan festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Pancha Dan, the festival of five summer gifts, is a day when devotees donate five commodities they consider essential for their well being, which are unhusked paddy, rice grains, pulses, salt and money. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) 
A cracked mosque minaret stands after the previous day’s earthquake in Moulay Brahim village, near Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) 
People observe a burial prayer for people who died in a recent earthquake in Moulay Brahim village, near Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, Sept. 8, killing more than 2,900 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. The full toll is not yet known as rescuers have struggled to access roads to the remote mountain villages hit hardest. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) 
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court, speaks at the 60th Commemoration of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) 
Family and friends gather to lay a wreath at the bombing site during the 60th Commemoration of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) 
A man sits by the graves of flash flood victims in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The death toll in Libya’s coastal city of Derna has soared to over 10,000 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad) 
Israeli police officers disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and boys blocking a road during a protest against the country’s military draft, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. Demonstrators said they were protesting the arrest of an ultra-Orthodox man accused of evading the military draft. Military service is mandatory for most Jewish Israeli men, but the ultra-Orthodox often receive exemptions in order to continue their religious studies. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) 
Pairs of oxen pull a boat-shaped float with an iconic century-old sacred image of Virgin Mary breastfeeding infant Jesus standing on the bow, during the Our Lady of Remedies procession in the small town of Lamego, in the Douro River Valley, Portugal, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. One of Portugal’s largest and oldest religious festivals, the two-week celebrations that culminate with the procession, draw thousands. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) 
A Hindu woman poses for a photograph holding a portrait of her late father after performing rituals on the banks of the Bagmati River during ‘Kuse Aunsi’ at the Gokarneshwor Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Kuse Aunsi is a festival of Nepal where fathers, living or dead, are honored. Children with living fathers show their appreciation by giving presents and sweets and those whose fathers are deceased pay tributes at the Gokarneshwar Temple. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) 
Nepalese Hindu devotees perform rituals for their deceased fathers on the banks of the Bagmati River during ‘Kuse Aunsi’ at the Gokarneshwor Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Kuse Aunsi is a festival in Nepal where fathers, living or dead, are honored. Children with living fathers show their appreciation by giving presents and sweets and those whose fathers are deceased pay tributes at the Gokarneshwar Temple. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) Archival Photos 
A man falls to his knees in prayer amid shattered glass from windows of the 16th Street Baptist Church and surrounding buildings in Birmingham, Alabama, in Sept. 1963. Four young girls died as a racist’s bomb exploded at 10:22 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1963, during worship services and Sunday school sessions. In the following outbreak of violence throughout the area, two young black men were shot to death. Pleas for effort to stop further bloodshed were issued from government, civil rights and religious leaders across the nation. Religion News Service file photo 
Mourners gather around Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Robertson Sr., seated at right, and a sister, at left, of 14-year-old Carole Robertson. Carole and three other young girls, attending Sunday school in the basement of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, died in the 1963 terrorist bombing. Religion News Service file photo 
FILE – Firemen and ambulance attendants remove a covered body from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where an explosion ripped though the structure during services, killing four black girls, on Sept. 15, 1963. Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside the Alabama church. (AP Photo, File) | 
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