Cultural Celebrations and Processions

Images of vibrant cultural events, including torchlight processions and traditional attire, capturing festive atmospheres across various global locations.

Toronto, ON, Canada - June 18, 2022: Dancer during the National Aboriginal Day and Indigenous Arts Festival. The festival celebrates Indigenous and Me

LAO - LE RYTHME DES EAUXAu Nord du Laos, enclavée dans les montagnes, la paisible cité de Luang Prabang prospère depuis des siècles au sein de la péninsule formée par la confluence du fleuve Mékong et de la rivière Nam Khan. Avant dêtre devancée par Vientiane, elle fut la capitale du puissant Royaume de Lane Xang (Royaume du Million dEléphants). Son architecture coloniale et ses majestueux temples lui valent dêtre inscrite au patrimoine mondiale de lUNESCO depuis 1995.La légende raconte que Bouddha y serait venu au cours de lun de ses voyages et quil a souri. Aujourdhui, la ville est un haut lieu bouddhique de lAsie du Sud-Est. Les jeunes y viennent des campagnes alentours pour faire une retraite monastique et ainsi recevoir une éducation gratuite.A loccasion de Pi Mai, la Fête de l'Eau, Luang Prabang se réveille. Correspondant au Nouvel An lao et bouddhique, on fête le retour de la saison des pluies et la renaissance de la nature. Durant les plusieurs jours de festivités,

Italy, Rome on 2022-04-15. Easter ceremony and torchlight procession at the foot of the hill in the presence of Pope Francis. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.Italy, Rome le 2022-04-15. Ceremonie de Paques et procession aux flambeaux au pied du Collisee en presence du Pape Francois. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

St. Paul, Minnesota. Asian Americans and supporting communities rally at the capitol to remember the victims of Atlanta Killings and show the world they are united and not shattered by the violence.

The persecution of Jesus was re-enacted during the 48th Annual Via Crucis, Living Way of the Cross, held on Good Friday, in Chicago's Pilsen neighbourhood. This reenactment of the 14 Stations of the Cross draws thousands each year to witness the solemn tradition. Chicago, USA.

Santa Maria del Tule, Mexico - 03 November 2023: View of the Day of the Dead cemetery alive with vibrant costumes and confetti, a joyful celebration amidst the night.

13th mountain procession with mountain devotion to the Festival of Lights in Bergiesshuebel

Creative costume at a no kings rally

Khampa women with 108 braids at the Cham dances, Katok Dorjeden Monastery - Kham, (eastern, Tibet), Sichuan, China

Pro-Palestinian student holds sign on behalf of Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and T

Toronto, ON, Canada - June 18, 2022: Dancer during the National Aboriginal Day and Indigenous Arts Festival. The festival celebrates Indigenous and Me

Sikh demonstration in France against the ban on turban wearing in schools

Maple Grove, Minnesota, Stop Asian hate protest to remember the victims of the Atlanta Killings.

Maple Grove, Minnesota, Stop Asian hate protest to remember the victims of the Atlanta Killings.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - July 1, 2021: A sign held up at a 'Cancel Canada Day' protest against treatment of indigenous people in Canada.

Sea of lights demonstration, Theresienwiese, Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Nogales, Sonora Mexico, Activists held rallies on both sides of the U.S. and Mexico border fence to protest the increasing militarization of the border, the separation of immigrant families, and U.S. policies that make it hard for refugees fleeing repression to enter the United States. The events were organized by the School of the Americas Watch, a group of religious and community activists.

Poster against Mullah regime, Iran, showing religious leader Ali Khamenei as Murderer, murderer, after young protester Mohsen Shekari was sentenced to death and hanged, shown at a demonstration for woman's rights in Iran, Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Ku Klux Klan members supporting Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California, as an African American man pushes signs back. Warren K. Leffler, photographer. July 12, 1964.

World Youth Day 2023. Pope Francis welcoming mass at Tagus Park. Lisbon. Portugal.

An Every Child Matters banner is surrounded by children's shoes and toys. They represent First Nations children who died in residential schools.

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 3 February 2017, Interfaith religious leaders rally during Friday prayers at the Muslim Unity Center in solidarity with the Muslim community and against the Trump administration's immigration/refugee ban. Syrian refugees, whose family was separated by the ban, spoke through a translator (right).

Memorial outside US Capitol for Brian Sicknick killed January 6

Street preacher with a banner: Jesus the Good Shepherd. Boston. Massachusetts. United States.

England, London, Religious protestor outside Downing Street.

The 74th Nakba Protest and a memorial for Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera journalist who was shot by Israeli occupation forces was held in Melbourne. The protest was Organised by Free Palestine Melbourne. Australia.

Boy scouts holding communion signs at a memorial mass held for the victims of the Smolensk airplane crash

Pro-Palestinian activists hold sign on behalf of Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and

USA, Illinois, White Supremacist Ku Klux Klan rally on steps of Illinois state capitol building.

HONG KONG - PROTEST - WALK FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTSManifestation de 800 000 personnes à Hong Kong pour la journée mondiale des Droits de l'Homme.HONG KONG - PROTEST - WALK FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTSDemonstration of 800,000 people in Hong Kong for World Human Rights Day.

Montreal,Quebec,Canada,July 1, 2021.Sign at a protest march for indigenous culture.Mario Beauregard/Alamy News

St. Paul, Minnesota. Asian Americans and supporting communities rally at the capitol to remember the victims of Atlanta Killings and show the world they are united and not shattered by the violence.

USA, Illinois, White Supremacist Ku Klux Klan rally on steps of Illinois state capitol building. Rally was opposed by a variety of protest groups.

Close-up of Black Lives Matter sign held by a peaceful protester

Ottawa, Canada. September 23rd, 2020. Local First Nations groups gather to sing ceremonial songs and hold space to bring to forefront various injust

Pilgrims carry a wooden cross as they walk along Via della Conciliazione toward the Holy Door of St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican during the Jubilee of the Volunteer World, March 8, 2025. Volunteers from over 100 countries gather in Rome for the event, which will draw 25,000 participants and feature cultural activities, health screenings, and workshops across the city.

A woman holds up shoes towards Jones, a symbol of disrespect, in a crowd of mostly Arab-Americans gathered across the street from Dearborn City Hall to oppose Rev. Terry Jones, the anti-Islamic Florida pastor who burned the Quran and held a demonstration "against sharia and jihad", Dearborn, Michigan, USA, North America

England, London, St Paul's. Anti-capitalist tent city in front of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.

Colorful rainbow flag on Halsted Street in 'Boystown' the gay neighborhood in Chicago Northside.

Tubac, Arizona, 9 October 2016, Immigration reform activists march through the Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 19, about 25 miles north of the Mexican border, where motorists are asked about their citizenship. They were protesting the increasing militarization of the border, the separation of immigrant families, and U.S. policies that make it hard for refugees fleeing repression to enter the United States.

Suite à la loi à la promulgation par le président Donald Trump ainsi que le congres et le senat américain d'une loi en faveur des manifestants pro-democratie à Hong Kong, les manifestants ont fêté Thanksgiving avec des discours et des concerts pour les remercier.Following the law following the promulgation by President Donald Trump and the US Congress and Senate of a law in favour of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong, the demonstrators celebrated Thanksgiving with speeches and concerts to thank them.

Shiite Muslims in New York take part in the Ashura.

Aboriginal teepees in downtown Calgary, protesting the Canadian justice system

HONG KONG - PROTEST - WALK FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTSManifestation de 800 000 personnes à Hong Kong pour la journée mondiale des Droits de l'Homme.HONG KONG - PROTEST - WALK FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTSDemonstration of 800,000 people in Hong Kong for World Human Rights Day.

England, London, St Paul's. Anti-capitalist tent city in front of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 14th May, 2022. Red fingerprints seen on a tipi (traditional Indigenous house) near Dawson College during the demonstration. Protesters marched against the controversial Bill-96 at Dawson College. Proposed by the party Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), Québec's Premier François Legault, believes the law will protect French culture and language in Canada. The English community believes the law will have catastrophic consequences in the province, impacting access to education, justice and healthcare. (Credit Image: © Giordanno Brumas/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)

Good Friday procession at the Via Dolorosa Jerusalem

Muted Canada Day celebration with a focus on First Nations and reconciliation. After various sites with unmarked graves from the Residential School Sy

Taqueria stands in view as hundreds of thousands of immigrants participate in march for Immigrants and Mexicans protesting against Illegal Immigration reform by U.S. Congress, Los Angeles, CA, May 1, 2006

Close-up of a monk in the city

Poster, anti vaccine and protest with freedom, street and communication with justice, opinion and march. Person in city, cardboard and holding sign with info, paper and covid with choice or option

Detroit, Michigan, Atheists join gay and lesbian activists marching for equality in the Motor City Pride parade.

Detroit, Michigan, During its annual convention, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) holds a symbolic funeral to bury the N-Word.

Victoria, Canada. 4th Mar, 2020. Indigenous people have blocked government buildings, bridges, and rail lines to protest a natural gas pipeline to be run through the Wet'suwet'en territory by Coastal GasLink. The private company failed to consult hereditary chiefs, the nation's leaders since well before colonisation. The Canadian government and hereditary chiefs met on the weekend after two weeks of pressure to revisit the agreement and drafted an agreement not made public yet. Calling themselves Land Protectors, Indigenous youth from 31 nations have held ceremonial vigil on the front steps

People holding icons at a procession, Orthodox icon procession, Agros, Troodos mountains, South Cyprus, Cyprus

2005 Presidential Inauguration Demonstrations

Demonstrators rise the Indigenous communities flag as people protest in an anti government protest against president Ivan Duque and Police Brutality after a month of demonstrations that had left at least 45 dead in unrest and police abuse of authority cases, in Medellin, Antioquia - Colombia on May 28, 2021.

Silent peace vigil marking anniversary of dropping off atomic bombs on Japan during WWII

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 3 February 2017, Interfaith religious leaders rally during Friday prayers at the Muslim Unity Center in solidarity with the Muslim community and against the Trump administration's immigration/refugee ban.

A Buddhist monk is sharing the alms (meal) with a beggar at the Mahagandayon Monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar, surrounded by Chinese tourists photographing.

Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year, pilgrims dance shortly after arrival on the grounds around the grave of Rabbi Nachmann, Uman, Ukraine, Europe

Traditional Muslim dress in Fes, Morocco

A man raises a cross during Pope's weekly Angelus prayer at St. Peter's Square in The Vatican, on June 28, 2020.

On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a large solidarity rally of Dresdeners with numerous Ukrainian refugees took place on Neumarkt in front of the Church of Our Lady. At the end, all participants came together to form a large chain of lights

Detroit, Michigan, Participants line up to process into a Catholic mass for immigrant families that are separated or in detention. The event raised money for the Catholic Dioceses of El Paso and Brownsville for their work among immigrant families. The mass, at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, was held as Democratic Presidential candidates were debating nearby.

The Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) supporters raise slogans demanding a separate Greater Tipraland state for tribals, in Bermuda Ashram Para. Agratala. Tripura, India.

Aboriginal teepees in downtown Calgary, protesting the Canadian justice system

Sign lettering "Religion ist heilbar", German for "religion is curable, " protest against Christian fundamentalism and for the right to bodily self-determination, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Hamtramck, Michigan USA, 22 March 2019, A rally remembers the victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings and protests continuing Islamophobia. Hamtramck has always been a city of immigrants, most recently from Muslim countries.

Meditation in Rennes following the attacks of 13 November 2015. Recueillement à Rennes suite aux attentats du 13 Novembre 2015.

Rome, many Ukrainian citizens at the mass for peace in the basilica of Santa Sofia in the Boccea district, the ceremony was also attended by the President of the Republic.

People demonstrating their solidarity with the Dalai Lama in front of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Close-up of Crucified Christ at Golden Hour

Santa Maria del Tule, Mexico - 03 November 2023: View of a child dressed as a skeleton amidst the crowd, holding a broom, at Day of the Death cementary.

Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, A member of the Westboro (Kansas) Baptist Church carries a sign calling Barack Obama the Antichrist because of his support for abortion rights and gay rights. The group picketed Grosse Pointe South High School to protest a play produced at the school called ""The Laramie Project."" The play is about the 1998 torture and beating death of Matt Shepard, an openly gay college student, in Laramie, Wyoming. Westboro church members believe God is punishing America because of its tolerance of homosexuality.

Rome. Good Friday, chaplains of the Hospital Saan Giovanni Addolorata carry the crucifix out of the complex for a blessing to nurse doctors and patients during the Coronavirus Emergency.

Demonstrators participating in "No Kings" Protest March, Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, October 1, 2025

Keep abortion legal demonstration protest sign

A hand made banner with words Refugees welcome, made of bedsheets. Voice of people

Pro-Choice Demonstration. New York City.

Ottawa, Canada. July 1st, 2021. Cancel Canada Day Indigenous rally following discovery of unmarked children graves in Residential Schools

Young Catholic in prayer, World Youth Day, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Rome, Basilica of Santa Sofia, continues the collection of basic necessities to be sent to Ukraine

Flags are seen on the National Aboriginal War Veterans Monument in Confederation Park.

London, UK. 6th June, 2021. Shoes outside the High Commission of Canada, symbolising the recent discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a large residential school in Canada. Credit: Jessica Girvan/Alamy Live News

A pilgrim walks carrying an image of crucified Jesus Christ during the annual pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Combined "Black lives Matter" and "Indigenous Lives Matter" with Indigenous designed flag Stapled on pole in Ottawa, Canada

Local First Nations protesters holding the Míkmaq State flag

A defaced Canada flag is displayed by an anti-pipeline protester in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en outside of Liberal MP Carolyn Bennentt's office.

Wichita, Kansas, A pro-immigration mural on the wall of a store in Wichita's predominantly Latino North End neighborhood. It is part of the Horizontes Project, which aims to bring together the North End neighborhood with the predominantly African-American Northeast neighborhood.

Nogales, Arizona, 8 October 2016, Religious activists hold a candlelight vigil at the U.S. and Mexico border fence. The interfaith religious ceremony protested the increasing militarization of the border, the separation of immigrant families, and U.S. policies that make it hard for refugees fleeing repression to enter the United States. The event was organized by the School of the Americas Watch, a group of religious and community activists.

Montreal, Canada. 21st June, 2022. An Indigenous elder starts the ceremonial fire to celebrate the summer solstice. During this summer solstice, Canadians celebrated the 26th National Indigenous Peoples Day. Many members of the First Nations of Turtle Island (Montreal), Kahnawake and beyond, danced and shared their stories during the seasonal transition in several events throughout the city. Speaking in Kanien'kehá before French or English, the Indigenous highlighted their culture and traditions in Old Montreal. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News

Naples Coronavirus hanged skeletons displayed in a shop window in Piazza Trieste e Trento with the words 'You are killing us more than Covid' (Naples - 2020-11-06, napolipress). The photo can be used in compliance with the context in which it was taken, and without the defamatory intent of the decorum of the people represented.

USA, New York, New York City, Mid-Town Manhattan, Times Square religious person, NR

Welcome, symbolic photo for sexual orientations and open society, LGBT, Germany, Europe

HONG KONG - PROTEST - WALK FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTSManifestation de 800 000 personnes à Hong Kong pour la journée mondiale des Droits de l'Homme.HONG KONG - PROTEST - WALK FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTSDemonstration of 800,000 people in Hong Kong for World Human Rights Day.

Muted Canada Day celebration with a focus on First Nations and reconciliation. After various sites with unmarked graves from the Residential School Sy

Image of Jesus Christ in chalk on a sidewalk; Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

LOURDES - JUNE 15, 2019: Pilgrim filling bottles of holy water near the grotto of Lourdes

Memorial to aboriginal children whose remain found in Residential Schools in Canada. Child moccasin and painted orange rock left in memory, Ottawa

Die Proteste gegen das marode Finanzsystem und die Abzocker halten in Zuerich an: Die Occupy-Bewegung hat Asyl bei der Kirche am Stauffacher erhalten. Das Gewerbe ist nicht erfreut. Zuvor waren die Aktivisten auf dem Lindenhof gedultdet

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