RNS Photos of the Week: Yom Kippur, Indigenous Peoples' Day

Click on the template buttons above to add content to the newsletter. (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes observations of Yom Kippur, Indigenous Peoples’ Day and more.     A member of the Grupo Coatlicue blows on a conch shell during a performance of a traditional Aztec dance, an agricultural prayer ceremony in motion, during an Indigenous Peoples’ Day event, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)     Kashmiri Muslims pray as a priest displays a relic of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani outside his shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)     A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays as a priest displays a relic of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani outside his shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)     People gather for Yizkor, a Jewish prayer service for the dead, to demand a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, on Yom Kippur in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)     Attendees pray during the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference hosted at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)     Pavla Niklová, Director of the Jewish Museum in Prague, lights the sabbath candles as Ec Chajim’s Rabbi David Maxa watches nearby during Yom Kippur services on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, in the Klausen Synagogue in Prague. (Photo by Dana Cabanova, courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague)     Ec Chajim’s Rabbi David Maxa and student Rabbi Klára Kopytkoyá lead the ancient prayer of Kol Nidre during Yom Kippur services Oct. 12, 2024, at the Klausen Synagogue in Prague. (Photo by Dana Cabanova, courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague)   Archival Photos     Philip Berrigan, a former Josephite Catholic priest and anti-war militant, flashes a “peace” sign as he is carried out of a police station in East Hartford on his way to the Connecticut state correctional facility in Hartford, Oct. 4, 1975. Berrigan and 21 others were arrested Oct. 4 and charged with defacing four military aircraft at an air show. Hundreds of spectators watched as the demonstrators sprayed the word “death” on the planes. (RNS archive photo, courtesy Presbyterian Historical Society)     A “miracle of the loaves” came to New York as the Franciscan friars of St. Francis of Assisi Church distributed 50,000 small loaves of blessed bread in commemoration of the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, June 13, 1975. Known by a century-old custom as “St. Anthony’s bread for the poor,” the loaves were distributed “as a reminder to those Americans who have, to share with those who have not,” according to Father John Felice, pastor of the Midtown Manhattan church. (RNS archive photo by John C. Lei, courtesy Presbyterian Historical Society)   Talk to Us We want your feedback on the RNS Photos of the Week — what you think we're doing right and what we should be doing differently. Send us an email at Comments@ReligionNews.com Subscribe to other RNS Newsletters. Forward this email to a friend. View the archive of past newsletters. RNS is free to read, but it's not free to produce. If you value our reporting, please consider making a donation today. If you prefer to mail a donation, please address to: Religion News Foundation, PO Box 1808, Columbia, MO 65205. Yes, I support the work you're doing! Forward this email to a friend