World Youth Day 2023, Departure Mass from French headquarters, Lisbon, Portugal

Liturgy commemorating victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor (Famine) and Russian-Ukrainian war started 2014, Madeleine Basilica, Paris, France

Orthodox monk at St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai Desert in Egypt

Orthodox monks at St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai Desert in Egypt

Orthodox monk at St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai Desert in Egypt

Orthodox monks at St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai Desert in Egypt

Priest carries Blessed Sacrament in Corpus Christi catholic traditional Benediction ceremony in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland

Frere Alois, leader of the Taize community and Mgr Gerard Daucourt, Nanterre bishop, gather with young Christians in a Montrouge church, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Europe

Tens of thousands of buddhist pilgrims from around the world traveled to bodhgaya, a town in northern india, to hear exiled tibetan spiritual leader hh dalai lama give the kalachakra-religious teachings. Pilgrim take rickshaw to the main temple in bodhgaya. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, bihar, india

Tens of thousands of buddhist pilgrims from around the world traveled to bodhgaya, a town in northern india, to hear exiled tibetan spiritual leader hh dalai lama give the kalachakra-religious teachings. Pilgrims walk through the entrance banner at main temple in bodhgaya. They carry kusha grass for offering. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, bihar, india

Tens of thousands of buddhist pilgrims from around the world traveled to bodhgaya, a town in northern india, to hear exiled tibetan spiritual leader hh dalai lama give the kalachakra-religious teachings. Pilgrims offer holy kusha grass (amrisso). Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, bihar, india

Leifur Eriksson statue and Hallgrimskirkja Church, Reykjavik, Iceland

Bishop blessing the palms,mass,Palm Sunday.Interior of Basilica Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Statue of Pope Pius the ninth, Saint Peter's Square, Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

President Mohammad Khatami and religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, Ashura rituals, penitent processions, Isfahan, Iran

Ahmed al Fateh Mosque, offering place for 7000 believers, pictures of the leaders, capital city, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, Persian Gulf

Prayer flags of Tibetan Buddhism with Buddhist mantra on it in Dharamshala monastery temple. There is the residence of Tibetan Buddhism spiritual leader Dalai Lama. Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, Asia

Central square Meidan-e Emam, Imam Khomeini, Hamadan, Hamedan, Iran, Persia, Asia

Equestrian statue of the military leader and mayor Hans Waldmann on the Muensterbruecke bridge, unveiled in 1937, in the back the twin towers of the Grossmuenster great minster, Zurich, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, Europe

A Shaman performs a ceremonial ritual on Olkhon Island, Siberia, Russia.

Mourners gather in Warsaw following the death in an airplane crash in Russia of the Polish president Lech Kaczynski, his wife and over ninety other high ranking government, military, civic and religious leaders.

Mourners gather in Warsaw following the death in an airplane crash in Russia of the Polish president Lech Kaczynski, his wife and over ninety other high ranking government, military, civic and religious leaders.

A portrait of a Russian priest on Olkhon Island, Siberia, Russia.

Mourners gather in Warsaw following the death in an airplane crash in Russia of the Polish president Lech Kaczynski, his wife and over ninety other high ranking government, military, civic and religious leaders.

Mourners gather in Warsaw following the death in an airplane crash in Russia of the Polish president Lech Kaczynski, his wife and over ninety other high ranking government, military, civic and religious leaders.

Mourners gather in Warsaw following the death in an airplane crash in Russia of the Polish president Lech Kaczynski, his wife and over ninety other high ranking government, military, civic and religious leaders.

A portrait of a Russian priest on Olkhon Island, Siberia, Russia.

Priest Raises His Hands Toward Heaven

Man Yells

Statue Of Cola Di Rienzo By Girolamo Masini, Erected In 1877 Near The Capitoline Hill, Where He Was Killed, Rome, Italy

Fresco, Holy Monastery of Varlaam, Meteora; Thessaly, Greece

Fresco, Holy Formation Cathedral, Trinity Sergius Lavra Monastery complex; Sergiev Posad, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Church of Elijah the Prophet, with colourful frescoes on the walls depicting Biblical scenes; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Fresco, Malancrav Fortified Church, 14th Century, Malancrav, Sibiu County, Romania

A mature woman praying, after doing some personal Bible study, in a coffee shop : Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Frescoes, New St George Church, 1705, Old Town Bucharest; Bucharest, Romania

A mature Christian woman studying her bible in a coffee shop and doing some extra research on her smart phone: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Fresco in the Church of St John the Baptist; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Fresco in the Church of St John the Baptist; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Fresco, New Testament Trinity, Spassky Monastery; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Church of Elijah the Prophet, with colourful frescoes on the walls depicting Biblical scenes; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Fresco, Holy Formation Cathedral, Trinity Sergius Lavra Monastery complex; Sergiev Posad, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Church of Elijah the Prophet, with colourful frescoes on the walls depicting Biblical scenes; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Fresco, Saviour Church on the City; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Fresco in the Church of St John the Baptist; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Fresco, Saviour Church on the City; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Fresco in the Church of St John the Baptist; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Hand crafted and painted door in Buddhist Monastery, Sikkim, India