(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, Hindu goddess Durga festivals and more. 
People protest on the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel and call for the release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) 
President Joe Biden, center, standing with first lady Jill Biden, left, and Rabbi Aaron Alexander of the Adas Israel Congregation, participates in a memorial candle-lighting in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) 
People visit the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, on the one-year anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) 
October 7 is displayed as 7.10 at Congregation Beth Elohim during a memorial service, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (RNS photo/Genevieve Charles) 
Karim Alshurafa, left, addresses an interfaith vigil at Schenley Park, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Pittsburgh. (RNS photo/Kathryn Post) 
People visit a memorial for victims of the Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas militants on the one-year anniversary of the attack, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) 
People attend a service at the Jewish Community Center to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Pittsburgh. (RNS photo/Kathryn Post) 
Devotees pray in front of a holy fire from a traditional oil lamp during the worship of Hindu goddess Durga, in Kolkata, India, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) 
Kanchan Paul, 39, paints the eyes on an idol of the Hindu goddess Durga at his workshop ahead of the Durga Puja festival in Guwahati, India, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) 
Devotees wait with sacrificial chickens and other items as they prepare to enter Balkumari Temple during Dashain festival in Thimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by Hindu goddess Durga, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) 
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaves at the end of a private meeting with Pope Francis, at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) 
People sign the Nuns on the Bus tour vehicle during a stop at Old St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago, Oct. 8, 2024. (RNS photo/Bob Smietana) Archival Photos 
Episcopal Bishop George Barrett, center, the resigned Bishop of Rochester, N.Y., officiates at irregular ordinations in Washington, D.C., of four women deacons to the priesthood on Sept. 7, 1975. The service was held at the Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation, despite the fact that Bishop William F. Creighton of Washington had announced that Bishop Barrett did not have his permission to perform ordinations in the diocese. At altar from left are: the Rev. Diane Tickell, a staff member of Anchorage (Alaska) Community Hospital; the Rev. Betty Rosenberg, pastoral counselor at Georgetown University; Bishop Barrett; the Rev. Alison Palmer, a State Department official, and the Rev. Lee McGee, chaplain at American University. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
Dr. Gus Alexander, a man who believes love and prayer can increase crop yields, sets up measuring tapes on a farm field in Jamestown, Ohio, in Oct. 1974. Alexander, assistant professor of speech communication at Wright State University in Dayton, set up an experiment in which members of a Dayton church prayed for the soybeans in designated plots, but not for others in control plots. And when farmer Maynard Bingamon harvested the soybeans in late October, the results of the experiment were evident. The soybeans in five out of the six “prayer plots” outweighed their counterparts in the control plots. Alexander described the experiment as “sending love, energy, growth” to the plants. Farmer Bingamon was interested in expanding the experiment to his dairy herd, to see if the love and energy communicated to the cows would increase milk production. (RNS archive photo by Walt Kleine. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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