Voting on Sunday in Ziguinchor, Senegal, in an election that many young people see as a chance to overhaul the political and economic order.
In front of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, in northern India.
Security was high at the temple before the consecration on Monday.
David Weissenstern, left, Menachem Weissenstern, Israel Ganot, Yossi Weisenstern, Duby Weisenstern and Efi Epshtein, all volunteers with ZAKA, last month in Yesodot, Israel.
During his New Year’s Day address, Pope Francis said he was “following with concern what is happening in Nicaragua” and its crackdown on the Catholic Church.
Carrying offerings to the sea on Friday in Rio de Janeiro as part of an annual rite by devotees of Afro-Brazilian religions.
Haya Saleh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, with students this month at the Max Rayne Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem. She teaches a class on tolerance and empathy with a Jewish Israeli teacher.
The Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, in the chapel at Lambeth Palace, his residence in London, in December.
This week, Pope Francis approved a new rule which allows priests to bless-same sex couples.
Hijabs for sale in Brussels in 2016. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday that public-sector offices could bar workers from wearing religious garments such as head scarves.
Mourners gathering in Arras, France, on Sunday, two days after a teacher was killed in a knife attack at a public school in the city.
The new postgraduate degree program at the University of Exeter in Britain taps into growing interest in the history of witchcraft and other related subjects.
The opening session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, or the Synod on Synodality, at the Vatican last week.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. Beijing considers the Dalai Lama a separatist and asserts that only the ruling Communist Party can name his next incarnation.
Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday.
The Oasis of Peace, a small village in Israel where an evenly split number of Arab and Jewish families live side by side.