RNS Photos of the Week: Bala Chaturdasi; Buddhists making kimchi

(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Bala Chaturdasi festival in Nepal, Buddhists making kimchi in South Korea and more. Hefazat-e-Islam supporters stage a protest after Friday prayers at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, demanding an immediate ban on International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)     Nepalese Hindu devotees light oil lamps during the Bala Chaturdasi festival on the premises of the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. Oil lamps are lighted in memory of departed family members and seven types of grain are scattered along a prescribed route during the festival. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)     Pope Francis presided over the Mass of Christ the King in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)     Vehicles damaged in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah sit in front of the Roman temples of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)     Buddhist monks and Buddhists make kimchi, a staple Korean side dish, at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. They will donate about eight tons of kimchi to needy neighbors in preparation for the winter season. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)     A rabbi delivers a eulogy next to the coffin of Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan in Kfar Chabad, Israel, Nov. 25, 2024. Kogan, 28, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, was killed last week in Dubai, where he ran a kosher grocery store. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)     Bangladeshi Hindu leader Krishna Das Prabhu makes a victory sign as he is taken in a police van after a court ordered him detained pending further proceedings in Chattogram in southeastern Bangladesh, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP photo)     Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)     Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Saint Teresa, walk during the annual Corpus Christi procession organised by the Catholic Association of Bengal, in Kolkata, India, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)   Archival Photos     Jewish chaplain Bernard Frankel, third from left, holds services aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, off the Aleutian Islands, in Nov. 1982. Cdr. Frankel, the first Jewish chaplain to be assigned aboard a ship for a full tour of sea duty, received a shofar, prayer shawls, religious literature and other equipment through funds provided by the Jewish Well Being organization. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)     A worker of the Mauritius Family Planning Association, right, takes information from a mother outside the village hall in Sebastopol, where the association holds a weekly clinic, in 1975. Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is one of the most densely populated rural areas in the world, with more than 800,00 people in its 780 square miles. The government of the former British colony made population control one of its top priorities and integrated family planning efforts into its public health services.(RNS archive photo by Alastair Matheson. Photo courtesy of the 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