Monday, January 13, 2025

RNS Photos of the Week: Orthodox Christmas; Jimmy Carter funeral

RNS Photos of the Week



(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Orthodox Christmas, Jimmy Carter funeral rites and more.
 

A man walks in front of the burning Altadena Community Church, Jan. 8, 2025, in the downtown Altadena section of Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

 

 

The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center burns during wildfires in Pasadena, Calif. (Video screen grab)

 

 

The intact First Church of Christ, Scientist is framed through the ruins of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church next door, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

 

 

People watch a lightshow projected on the facade of the Naval Cathedral of Saint Nicholas on Orthodox Christmas Eve in the city of Kronstadt, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

 

 

Children take part in a religious procession to the Holy Trinity Cathedral to mark Orthodox Christmas in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

 

 

Christian Orthodox believers, who follow the Julian calendar and celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, burn dried oak branches, the Yule log symbol for the Orthodox Christmas Eve, in front of St. Luke Church in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

 

 

Ethiopian pilgrims pray during an Orthodox Christmas Eve service at the Bole Medhane Alem Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo)

 

 

A Lithuanian Orthodox woman lights candles before the liturgy on Orthodox Christmas Eve in the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

 

 

An Aymara Indigenous spiritual guide blesses a statue of baby Jesus with incense after an Epiphany Mass at a Catholic church in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

 

 

Soldiers carry in the casket of former President Jimmy Carter, delivering his body to lie in state on Jan. 7, 2025, in the Capitol rotunda. Carter died Dec. 29 in his home state of Georgia at the age of 100. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)

 

 

A joint services body bearer team carries the casket of former President Jimmy Carter after a state funeral service at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

 

 

President Joe Biden speaks during the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

 

Archival Photos

 

 

Lutheran Dr. Manas Buthelezi, left, South Africa’s only black doctor of theology, was served with a government “banning order” under the so-called Suppression of Communism Act in 1973. The order imposed on Dr. Buthelezi, who is director of the anti-apartheid Christian Institute of South Africa in the Province of Natal, prohibits him from attending social, political or educational gatherings and from teaching students. No newspaper could publish what he says — or anything he has ever said in his life at all, even before he was banned. Buthelezi, 38, is shown with the Rev. Will Herzfeld, former staff member of the Lutheran Council in the USA and now pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran church in Oakland, Calif., during a visit to the United States. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)

 

 

Farouk Kaddoumi, left, representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), walks toward his seat after the United Nations Security Council voted to allow the PLO to participate, with the rights of a U.N. member nation, in the debate on the Middle East, in January 1976. The vote was 11 to 1, with only the United States voting against the proposal. Israel announced that it would not ask to take part in the debate. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)

 

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