(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Holy Week rituals from different corners of the globe.
Catholic clergy hold candles as they walk during the Washing of the Feet procession at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried, and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Thursday, March 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) 
Christian faithful of the Legio Maria African Mission attend the traditional Palm Sunday procession in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Streams of Christian pilgrims gathered Sunday to celebrate the path of Jesus Christ’s last journey into Jerusalem, when his followers laid palm branches in his path, before his crucifixion. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga) 
A worshiper burns incense during the procession of La Merced Church celebrating Palm Sunday at the start of Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) 
Rev. William H. Lamar IV, front, leads a Palm Sunday service at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Lamar says their churches are still feeling the pandemic’s impact on attendance, even as they have rolled out robust online worship options to reach people. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) 
Masked penitents take part during Palm Sunday in Zaragoza, northern Spain, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) 
A hooded Filipino penitent with a tattoo of Jesus Christ flagellates himself as part of Holy Week rituals to atone for sins or fulfill vows for an answered prayer, in metropolitan Manila, Philippines on Maundy Thursday, March 28, 2024. The Lenten ritual is frowned upon by the church in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) 
Indian Christians reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to mark Good Friday in Guwahati, India, Friday, March 29, 2024. Christians all over the world attend mock crucifixions and passion plays that mark the day Jesus was crucified, known to Christians as Good Friday. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) 
A penitent walks on her knees in the Nazarene of Saint Paul Holy Week procession, outside the Basilica of St. Teresa, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) 
Pope Francis washes and kisses the feet of 12 women inmates of the Rebibbia prison in the outskirts of Rome on Holy Thursday, March 28, 2024, a ritual meant to emphasize his vocation of service and humility. (Photo by Vatican Media) 
Participants in the ancient Easter rite of ‘The Battenti’ (The Flagellants) leave the church of St. Joseph, in Verbicaro in the southern tip of Italy, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Devotees who have made the vow to the Our Lady of Sorrows walk through the streets and alleys of Verbicaro at night where they spread their blood on the portals and steps of places of worship after having flagellated their legs with shards of glass in remembrance of the flagellation of Jesus Christ. (AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro) 
Ruben Enaje, center, portrays Jesus on the cross, flanked by two other devotees, during a reenactment of Jesus Christ’s sufferings as part of Good Friday rituals in San Pedro Cutud, north of Manila, Philippines, Friday, March 29, 2024. The Filipino villager was nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition. He said he is praying for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea. (AP Photo/Gerard V. Carreon) Archival Photos 
Pope Paul VI opened Holy Week for Catholics around the world by blessing palms on Palm Sunday at the Basilica of St. Paul-Outside-the-Walls which he visited as the last of the Lenten stational churches of the Eternal City, or Rome, on March 22, 1964. The pontiff is shown holding blessed palms as he is carried on his portable throne amidst cheering crowds during procession under the basilica’s porch. Present with the Pope at the services were about 70 cardinals and many bishops and priests. Later on Palm Sunday the pontiff appeared at a window of the Apostolic Palace to bless thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. He called on all Catholics to pray for “that peace of which the world has still such need while seemingly incapable of attaining it.” (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
Some churches were severely damaged and many others were darkened and left without heat as an earthquake of tremendous proportion rocked Anchorage, Alaska, in March 1964. Easter worshippers gathered, not only in churches but also in garages and warehouses before returning to the huge task of digging out from under the quake’s rubble. Despite the tragedy, Easter services were well attended, as shown here at Elmendorf Air Force Base chapel, where many wore parkas and other heavy clothing. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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