Orthodox Religious Services

Ceremonies held in ornate churches featuring clergy in traditional vestments, during mass and special services across Eastern Europe.

Lighting candles in Vladimirskaya Church in Saint Petersburg, -, the second largest city in Russia, located on the Neva River near the Baltic Sea.

Peru, Ayacucho. Holy Week. During the tour of "the seven churches".

Syria, Damascus, Franciscan Church.

Bishop (Vladika) Sava of Shumadija performs Holy Liturgy at the Church of Church of St. George. - May not be used in defamation towards Serbian culture.

Ciempozuelos (Madrid), 12/11/2014. Cloistered convent of Poor Clare nuns of Ciempozuelos. Photo: Ernesto Agudo. ARCHDC.

Mass in the Parish Church of St. John, Christian community of Youhanabad, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, Asia

Friars in the library, Sanctuary of Madonna di Pietralba, Nova Ponente, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

Man holding a boy lighting candles at Khor Virap Monastery; Ararat Province, Armenia

representacion de la beata Caterina Tomàs, fiestas de la Beata, vinculadas con la beatificación de Sor Caterina Tomàs. Santa Margalida. Mallorca. Islas Baleares. España.

Russia; St. Petersburg; During the Russian Orthodox Easter ceremony at Vladimirsky Cathedral.

Visitors in the Main Hall with 56 meter high dome, interior, Hagia Sophia mosque, former church, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey

Interior of San Lazaro Catholic Church, El Rincon, Cuba,

Israel, Jerusalem, Church Of The Holy Sepulchre

Russia Moscow, Russian Orthodox service in Moscow church

cofradias entrando en la catedral, procesion de jueves santo, Palma, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Altar boys and girls at Celebration of the Myrrh bearers' Sunday in the Nazareth Melkite (Greek Catholic) church, Galilee, Israel, Middle East

The ritual of the Good friday covens, Cilento, Campania, Italy

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iglesia de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Rennes-le-Chateau, departamento del Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon,Francia, europa.

Mass in Saint Volodymyr the Great Greek catholic Ukrainian cathedral, Paris, France. Mgr Gollnisch, executive director of LOeuvre dOrient, a French catholic NGO.

Orthodox procession on Palm Sunday in the Solidere quarter, Beirut, Lebanon, Middle East

Fukagawa Hachiman Matsuri (festival-august). Procession of Mikoshi (mobile shrine).Bearers.Tokyo city, Japan, Asia

Stanislaw Wojciech Bergman (1862-1930). Polish painter. Stanislaw Oswiecim at the Body of Anna Oswiecim, 1888. National Museum. Krakow. Poland.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, Mrs. Susan Pompeo, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman tour the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on March 21, 2019.

Dancing dervishes from the Sufi Mevlevi Order, Sema-Zerimonie, dervish dance, Sema, Mevlevihanesi Muezesi, Istanbul, Tuerkei

Ba Vang buddhist temple. Monks at religious rituals. Buddhist ceremony Uong Bi. Vietnam.

bendicion de los animales de Sant Antoni,Palma, Mallorca, islas baleares, Spain.

Candles inside Studenica monastery

Nuns at work in a printing press. Pessano con Bornago-MI

Father Sergei during an exorcism in his church in Ochamchira. He is widely known as an exorcist and receives people seeking help from all over Russia, Ochamchira, Abkhazia, Georgia, Asia

Baptism in the Greek Catholic Church, Anastasia was born on 4. 3. 22 in Kyiv, the father brought his woman under fire from the Russian army to a maternity clinic in the Obolon district of Kyiv, Anastasia spent the first hours of her life in the basement of the maternity clinic, the parents fled to the West to friends who brought the child to the baptism as godparents, Pavliv, Ukraine, Europe

Orthodox Easter, Athos, Greece, Europe

Monk at Koutloumoussiou monastery, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mount Athos, Greece, Europe

Russian Orthodox Priest, Father Sergei, blesses members of the media after having blessed the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 57 crewmembers Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch on October 11 and will spend the next six months living and working aboard the International Space Station.

Cordova. 12/07/2008. The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception minutes before being transferred to the Mosque-Cathedral.

Church of the Franciscan Father Don Giacomino in Baia Sardinia

Delegation of Knights Templar, Pallavicino Castle

Elderly nun in exterior doorway

Russia; St. Petersburg; During the Russian Orthodox Easter ceremony at Vladimirsky Cathedral.

SPAIN - Els Ports (district) - Valencia autonomous region - Castellón. Els Ports (comarca): virgin procession from the Vallivana sanctuary till Morella at the Fiestas del / Sexeni festival (Els Ports - Maestrat / Maestrazgo region)

encendido de velas votivas, catedral de Santa Eufemia, Rovinj,peninsula de Istria, Croacia, europa.

Women wearing traditional Potosi rebozos and carrying candles.

Bethlehem the Latin Christmas ceremony

Mass in Saint Volodymyr Greek catholic Ukrainian cathedral, Paris, France

'Torna, Lònia Guiu'. de Maria Antònia Oliver, Manacor, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Children going to first communion, Manila Cathedral, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, with U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria James Warlick, left; tour the Boyana Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, on February 5, 2012.

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Father Sergei during an exorcism in his church in Ochamchira. He is widely known as an exorcist and receives people seeking help from all over Russia, Ochamchira, Abkhazia, Georgia, Asia

Holy week. Palm sunday mass celebration. Switzerland.

Stockholm, Sweden Oct 6, 2024 Women burning incense at a Peruvian culture and Catholic procession in the Sodermalm district to commemorate the El Senor de los Milagros tradition.

Rascafría (Madrid), 11/08/2023. Report of the Royal Monastery of Santa María de El Paular of Benedictine monks. In the image, Miguel Muñiz Vila, subprior of the Monastery. Photo: Ignacio Gil. ARCHDC.

Spain, Murcia region, Mula, convent, cloistered nuns

Vatican, Vatican. 01st Apr, 2022. Italy, Rome, Vatican, 2022/04/01 Pope Francis receiving a delegation of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, in Vatican City, Vatican, 01 April 2022. Pope Francis on the day apologised to representatives of Canadian Indigenous peoples for the suffering they endured in Catholic residential schools in the North American country Photograph by Vatican Media /Catholic Press Photo. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. Credit: Independent Photo Agency/Alamy Live News

Botiza village, Mamamuresh, Romania, Europe

Bethlehem Christmas at Manger Square

Sainte-Marie-Madeleine church, Rennes-le-Chateau, Aude department, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Europe.

His Holiness Patriarch Pavle, spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church. - May not be used in defamation towards Serbs.

A monk in front of a rural church in the countryside outside Homs, central Syria. (Photo by: Giulio Paletta/UIG)

Fresco of Christian founding fathers in Aghios Andreas monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, Europe

Russian Orthodox Priest Father Sergei blesses the Soyuz rocket and members of the media at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 61 crew members Jessica Meir of NASA and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates will launch September 25th on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station.

Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepequez, Guatemala. Men carrying banners during the Semana Santa Holy Week Easter procession. (Editorial Use Only)

Expedition 70 Soyuz Blessing. A Russian Orthodox Priest blesses the Soyuz Rocket and personnel, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 31 in Kazakhstan. Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on Sept. 15.

Funeral of Oleg Yashchishin, Kirilo Vishivaniy, Sergey Melnik and Rostislav Romanchuk in the Jesuit Church of St. Peter and Paul, the four officers killed in a Russian missile attack two days earlier in a military camp near the border with Poland in Yavoriv, at least 35 people died, Lviv, Ukraine, Europe

Italy, Sicily, Trapani Province, Trapani. April 19, 2019. The Processione dei Misteri di Trapani, performed for 300 years, celebrates Easter with parades throughout the week. (Editorial Use Only)

Procession of the Madonna Immacolata, Mary Immaculate, in Torre del Greco, Napoli, Campania, Italy

Mosaic of Madonna and Child flanked by the Byzantine Emperor, John II Comnenus, and his wife, Irene, Hagia Sophia mosque, former church, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey, Asia

children watching the Palm Sunday ceremony Jerusalem

State of Vatican City, Holy See, 2022-04-18. Easter Ceremony and Benediction urbi et orbi in St Peter's Square in the presence of Pope Francis. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.Etat de la Cite du Vatican, Saint-Siege, le 2022-04-18. Ceremonie de Paques et benediction urbi et orbi sur la Place Saint-Pierre en presence du Pape Francois. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Albania, Shkodra, Catholic Baptism With Priest Performing Ceremony Surrounded By Family

La Nuit des Temoins, an event organized in the Sacre Coeur basilica in Paris by Aide à l'Eglise en Detresse, a charity supporting persecuted christians worldwide

Participants at a reception in honor of attendees of the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 25, 2018.

Córdoba, 08/13/2024. The Córdoba CF squad makes a floral offering to San Rafael in the Juramento church. Photo: Valerio Merino. ARCHDC.

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