RNS Photos of the Week: Russian relics anniversary; Ganesha festival

(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the 300th anniversary of the transfer of relics of Prince Alexander Nevsky in Russia, Hinduism’s Ganesh Chaturthi festival and more   Russian Orthodox believers carrying icons take part in a procession along Nevsky Prospect to mark the 300th anniversary of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. The Russian church commemorates September 12, 1724, when Russian Tsar Peter the Great transferred the relics of Prince Alexander Nevsky from town of Vladimir to St. Petersburg, the new capital of Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)   Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill participates in commemorations on the 300th anniversary of the transfer of the relics of Prince Alexander Nevsky to St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (Photo by Oleg Varov/Russian Patriarch)   Church members pray at a service at Bethlehem Church, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, in Bethlehem, Georgia. Colt Gray, 14, has been charged with murder for the killing of two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, outside Atlanta, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)   The remains of Columbus Blue Jackets hockey player John Gaudreau and his brother Matthew Gaudreau depart following their funeral at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Media, Pennsylvania., Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)   A new Medicine Buddha statue from Vietnam is unveiled at the Blue Lotus Temple in Woodstock, Ill., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (Photo by Mark Regan)   The crowd prays at a Mass celebrated ‘In Memory of the Most Holy Name of Mary’, by the Archbishop of Singapore, Cardinal William Goh Seng Chye, and presided over by Pope Francis at the Singapore SportsHub National Stadium, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. It was the final leg of the longest and farthest tour of his Francis’ papacy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)   East Timorese fill Tasitolu Park for Pope Francis’ Mass in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)   People mourn at the coffin of Matityahu (Anton) Samborskyi, adopted son of Ukraine’s chief rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, who was killed in the war with Russia, during a mourning service in the Brodsky synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)   Devotees immerse an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha in the Arabian Sea during the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)   An artist naps during a break from crafting statues of the Hindu god Ganesha inside a workshop ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)   Protesters demand the reinstatement of Nepal as a Hindu state and the restoration of the monarchy, near the parliament building in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)   Members of the Monpa community from Arunachal Pradesh throw flowers on a carpet as they wait to welcome Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama before praying for his long life, at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)   Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama sits on a ceremonial chair as he prays before giving a sermon at the request of a Buddhist group from Southeast Asia, at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)   Archival Photos   Evangelist Billy Graham, left, answers questions from Harvard University students on subjects from theology to civil rights at an informal meeting in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The talk was Graham’s last in his week-long visit with college students in the Boston area as he made arrangements for his New England Crusade in September. During his stay Graham suggested that Black leaders declare a moratorium on demonstrations until the Senate ended debate on civil rights legislation. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)   Riot police guard the fire and rocket damaged Presidential Palace in Santiago, Chile, in September 1973, after a military coup toppled the government of President Salvador Allende. Revelations in the U.S. Congress about the “destabilizing” activities of the CIA in Chile before Allende’s overthrow caused some in the international religious community to re-focus attention on Chile’s human rights situation there. Some religious spokesmen defended the junta’s rule, but reports of torture and ill treatment of some 8,000 political prisoners turned religious reaction against the junta. T. (RNS archive photo. 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