Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 252 images found }

Loading ()...

  • A Catholic priest shades his eyes from the sun while walking through St. Peters Square with St. Peters Basilica in the background, on 3rd November 1999, in Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
    rome_priest-03-11-1999.jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London; UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London; UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • London, UK. Saturday 19th April 2014. Priest blesses the gathered people with a great deal of holy water. Easter celebration gathering at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Church on Ennismore Gardens in West London. On this day before Easter Sunday Russians gather in a religious festival where their painted eggs; traditional cakes and other offerings are blessed. Then at midnight will be offered to God. Nothing is expected in retun in terms of good fortune.
    20140419_russian orthodox easter pri...jpg
  • A Catholic confessional between a penitent parishioner and her local priest at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. While kneeling to face the priest, the lady speaks in absolute confidence and secrecy to a screen beyond which the man listens and offers spiritual advice. A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation. Usually, the priest and penitent are in separate compartments and speak to each other through a grid or lattice and a crucifix hangs over the grille. But here, a screen grille inserted in it separates the two. The penitent may be able to see the priest through the screen, but the priest can usually never see the penitent - hearing instead of the person's sinful admissions.
    catholic_church111-24-08-2010_1.jpg
  • A Catholic confessional between a penitent parishioner and her local priest at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. While kneeling to face the priest, the lady speaks in absolute confidence and secrecy to a screen beyond which the man listens and offers spiritual advice. A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation. Usually, the priest and penitent are in separate compartments and speak to each other through a grid or lattice and a crucifix hangs over the grille. But here, a screen grille inserted in it separates the two. The penitent may be able to see the priest through the screen, but the priest can usually never see the penitent - hearing instead of the person's sinful admissions.
    catholic_church106-24-08-2010_1.jpg
  • A Catholic confessional between a penitent parishioner and her local priest at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. While kneeling to face the priest, the lady speaks in absolute confidence and secrecy to a screen beyond which the man listens and offers spiritual advice. A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation. Usually, the priest and penitent are in separate compartments and speak to each other through a grid or lattice and a crucifix hangs over the grille. But here, a screen grille inserted in it separates the two. The penitent may be able to see the priest through the screen, but the priest can usually never see the penitent - hearing instead of the person's sinful admissions.
    catholic_church102-24-08-2010_1.jpg
  • Reflected in a mirrored wardrobe door, a Catholic Priest puts on his Alb before morning Mass in the church's private dressing backroom called the Sacristy (also called the Vestry) at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. Using morning summer light from the window of his private dressing room, the Father (the more formal term for a Catholic priest by his congregation) is about to put the Alb over his head. The Alb is the white linen vestment with close fitting sleeves, reaching nearly to the ground and secured round the waist by a girdle (cincture). He is already wearing his Amice, an oblong linen cloth (at least 32 inches long and 24 wide), which is first placed upon the head and then brought down and drawn about the neck where it is fastened with cords. Originally it served as a head-covering for the priest.
    catholic_church59-24-08-2010_1.jpg
  • Protester Father Neil Horan demonstrating on Parliament Square, London. Sometimes referred to as The Grand Prix Priest or The Dancing Priest (born 22 April 1947), is a laicized Irish Roman Catholic priest who is noted for his interference with the running of the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Summer Olympics men's marathon in order to promote his religious belief that the end of the world is near. He went on to appear on Britain's Got Talent in May 2009.
    20110525father neil horanA.jpg
  • Protester Father Neil Horan demonstrating on Parliament Square, London. Sometimes referred to as The Grand Prix Priest or The Dancing Priest (born 22 April 1947), is a laicized Irish Roman Catholic priest who is noted for his interference with the running of the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Summer Olympics men's marathon in order to promote his religious belief that the end of the world is near. He went on to appear on Britain's Got Talent in May 2009.
    20110525father neil horanB.jpg
  • In his private rooms, Father Phillipe Dubos a country priest blows smoke from his pipe in the Presbytry at Equetot a local Catholic church in rural Normandy. With literature lining a bookcase and paperwork on his office table, the priest exhales from his pipe, blowing blue smoke across the study. It is a quiet moment after a busy morning of Mass and community activities. It is estimated that somewhere between 83% to 88% of France's population are Catholic. The church is organised into 98 dioceses, served by 20,523 priests.
    catholic_priest4-12-10-1997_1.jpg
  • Reflected in a mirrored wardrobe door, Father Chris Vipers is a Catholic Priest chooses a chasuble that befits the character of the morning Mass in private dressing backroom called the Sacristy (also called the Vestry) at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. The Father (the more formal term for a Catholic priest by his congregation) is already wearing an Alb which is the white linen vestment with close fitting sleeves, reaching nearly to the ground and secured round the waist by a girdle (cincture). Father Vipers is choosing a red chasuble to suit the Mass in honour of St Bartholomew, the Apostle.
    catholic_church62-24-08-2010_1.jpg
  • Sitting on the floor, an elderly Hindu Cham woman weaves a priest's turban with cotton and silk threads on a back-strap loom outside her home in My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups.
    A0027544cc rt_1.jpg
  • Sitting on the floor, an elderly Hindu Cham woman weaves a priest's turban with cotton and silk threads on a back-strap loom outside her home in My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups.
    A0027567cc_1.jpg
  • Sitting on the floor, an elderly Hindu Cham woman weaves a priest's turban with cotton and silk threads on a back-strap loom outside her home in My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups.
    A0027560cc_1.jpg
  • An elderly Hindu Cham woman weaves a priest's turban with cotton and silk thread on a back-strap loom at home in My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups.
    A0027552cc_1.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priests carrying a Tabot, a model of The Ark of the Covenant wrapped in a rich cloth and carried on the head of the priest is assisted by a deacon holding a liturgical parasol. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7479_35a_1_1_1.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priest blessing monks and priests during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7473_6_1_1_1.jpg
  • Watched by statues of saints, Father Phillipe Dubos a country priest lights candles before Sunday Mass in a local Catholic church in Iville St Guerisseurs, rural Normandy. In front of the statues of six saint icons that are lined up along a raised surface in the transept, a quiet corner of the church. It is estimated that somewhere between 83% to 88% of France's population are Catholic. The church is organised into 98 dioceses, served by 20,523 priests.
    catholic_priest3-12-10-1997_1.jpg
  • A priest leads Sunday Mass in a local Catholic church in Le Neubourg in rural Normandy. Father Phillipe Dubos holds up the Holy chalice and wafer before offering it for the congregation to sip and eat. Wearing a green cassock, the mottled light from stained glass window light plays across his shoulder as we see him side-on. It is estimated that somewhere between 83% to 88% of France's population are Catholic. The church is organised into 98 dioceses, served by 20,523 priests
    catholic_priest1-12-10-1997_1.jpg
  • A priest leads Sunday Mass in a local 16th century Catholic church in rural Normandy. Father Phillipe Dubos leads the service to his small parish congregation in Le Neubourg. Wearing a green cassock and with hands and palms open, he offers his liturgy to his flock. It is estimated that somewhere between 83% to 88% of France's population are Catholic. The church is organised into 98 dioceses, served by 20,523 priests.
    catholic_priest2-12-10-1997_1.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priest baptises the crowd during the festival of Timkat. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7473_35_1_1_1.jpg
  • Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 dresses into his ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, with the help of two of his Shinto priest colleagues, Kageji Toyama and Kiyoto Suyama from neighbouring villages. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize ones sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the here and now and allow ones sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity, Kiso Mura village.
    20160708_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. During the festival of Timkat (Epiphany), the priest blesses the water before baptising the crowd. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7450_26_1_1_1.jpg
  • Buddhist priest in Lung Shang Temple, Taipei, Taiwan
    cp_tai_0196_1.jpg
  • Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 dresses into his ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, with the help of two of his Shinto priest colleagues, Kageji Toyama and Kiyoto Suyama from neighbouring villages. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize ones sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the here and now and allow ones sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity, Kiso Mura village.
    20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • Priest wearing a white habbit walking and mediating along a small country road at dusk in Lagrasse, France. The Abbey of St. Mary of Lagrasse is a Romanesque abbey in Lagrasse, southern France. The priests, live in common under the Rule of St. Augustine, and dedicate their lives to the liturgy, which they celebrate in the pre-Vatican II form, and to evangelization. Common life, contemplative life, and apostolic life form the three facets of their charism.
    _F3A0880.jpg
  • The family priest gives a blessing (puja) to Radakrishna and Srikanda Stpathy and their wives in the family shrine in the Stapathy house.The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the ,ƒÚlost wax,ƒÙ process remains unchanged to this day..
    SFE_100129_475.jpg
  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, Swamimalai, India
    SFE_100128_212.jpg
  • Father Chris Vipers is a Catholic Priest and says a brief prayer in the private dressing backroom called the Sacristy (also known as the Vestry) before Mass at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. He is wearing a decorative red Chasuble (the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for the celebration of the Eucharist in Western-tradition Christian Churches that use full vestments, primarily in the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches). Saying a brief prayer to a photograph portrait of Cardinal Newman. Father Vipers is about to go out into the main church where his congregation awaits for the Mass, this morning with the theme of St Bartholomew, the Apostle.
    catholic_church63-24-08-2010_1.jpg
  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India.
    SFE_100128_207.jpg
  • Three men fish in Cape Cornwall Pool, Priest's Cove, St Just, Cornwall, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
    30-11_1.jpg
  • A Greek Orthodox priest  buys seafood from a stall in the Athens Central Market on Athinas Street. Athens, Greece
    SFE_120225_067_1.jpg
  • A Greek Orthodox priest  buys seafood from a stall in the Athens Central Market on Athinas Street. Athens, Greece
    SFE_120225_074_1.jpg
  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India
    SFE_100128_230.jpg
  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India.
    SFE_100128_230_1.jpg
  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India.
    SFE_100128_207.jpg
  • A recently-ordained woman priest enjoys a humerous moment with her mother after historical ceremony in Bristol Cathedral.
    woman_priest01-07-12-1993_1.jpg
  • A Catholic priest leans his briefcase on railings to show a document to two nuns in St. Peters Square, on 3rd November 1999, in Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
    rome_people05-03-11-1999.jpg
  • A priest from Santo Tomas de Vilanova seminary, practices his skills on the pitch, Ourinhos, Brazil
    20130425_football_brazil_0099_1.jpg
  • The family priest gives a blessing (puja) to Radakrishna and Srikanda Stpathy and their wives in the family shrine in the Stapathy house.The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the ,?Úlost wax,?Ù process remains unchanged to this day..
    SFE_100129_475.jpg
  • A priest by a shrine at the Murugan temple, gives ritual blessings to pilgrims in Swamimalai, India.
    SFE_100128_230.jpg
  • The climax of a Hindu wedding. Shweta Singhal, sits on her father's lap whilst a priest together with the bride's mother and closest family members look on as the groom Rohit, places around his newly wed wife a necklace with a gold locket, which is sign of a married women. The guests sprinkle  the newly weds in a shower of pink rose petals, Neemrana Fort, Palace, Rajasthan, India.
    20071128_india_0203_1.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A priest in prayer holding a cross during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7452.34_1_1_1.jpg
  • Priest at prayer at the Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
    4118_5_3x_1_1.jpg
  • Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 dressed in his ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71. They are the  25th and 24th uninterrupted generational SHINTO priests in their family line dating back to the 12th century AD. Seen here leaving the family home to walk to the inner sanctum of their sanctuary.  The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize ones sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the here and now and allow ones sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity, Kiso Mura village.
    20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 dresses into his ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71. They are the  24th and 25th uninterrupted generational SHINTO priests in their family line dating back to the 12th century AD. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize ones sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the here and now and allow ones sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity, Kiso Mura village.
    20160708_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • The climax of a Hindu wedding. Shweta Singhal, sits on her father's lap whilst a priest together with the bride's mother and closest family members look on as the groom Rohit, places around his newly wed wife a necklace with a gold locket, which is sign of a married women. The guests sprinkle  the newly weds in a shower of pink rose petals, Neemrana Fort, Palace, Rajasthan, India.
    20071128_india_0206_1.jpg
  • The climax of a Hindu wedding. Shweta Singhal, sits on her father's lap whilst a priest together with the bride's mother and closest family members look on as the groom Rohit, places around his newly wed wife a necklace with a gold locket, which is sign of a married women. The guests sprinkle  the newly weds in a shower of pink rose petals, Neemrana Fort, Palace, Rajasthan, India.
    20071128_india_0227_1.jpg
  • The climax of a Hindu wedding. Shweta Singhal, sits on her father's lap whilst a priest together with the bride's mother and closest family members look on as the groom Rohit, places around his newly wed wife a necklace with a gold locket, which is sign of a married women. The guests sprinkle  the newly weds in a shower of pink rose petals, Neemrana Fort, Palace, Rajasthan, India.
    20071128_india_0198_1.jpg
  • Street scene in Omonia, a Greek Orthodox Church priest walking doing his rounds, every few metres in this poor area he gives a small omount of mony to those in need. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
    20110919greek orthodox priestA.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall and then arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_097.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_095.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_094.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_096.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_085.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_086.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_048.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_046.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_012.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall and then arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_013.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion climate change activist and priest lies down in Whitehall to await being arrested by police as sites around Westminster are blocked on 8th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191008_extinction rebellion_011.jpg
  • The village priest blesses the shepherds at the Measurement of the Milk Festival, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. The Measurement of the Milk festivals take place at the beginning of May, when the shepherds bring the flocks, which have spend a few days grazing in the hills, to meet the villagers at a clearing where the measurement will take place.  The sheep are milked by their owners, and the yield of each family’s animals measured to determine the quota of cheese that they will receive during that season.
    62-12_1.jpg
  • A priest awaits confessions in Catania Cathedral, Catania, Sicily, Italy<br />
Duomo di Catania Cattedrale di SantAgata, is dedicated to Saint Agatha. It was the seat of the Bishops of Catania until 1859, when the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese, and since then has been the seat of the Archbishops of Catania.
    SFE_170518_002.jpg
  • A priest enjoys sunshine in the arched passageway of the Renaissance Cloth Hall on Rynek Glowny market square, on 22nd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-270-22-09-2019.jpg
  • Family and relatives watch a 4 year-old's baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church. Reaching down to the young lad, the priest touches him on the cheek as part of this ancient rite when a Christian is welcomed into the church. The word baptism is a sacrament and an ordinance of Jesus Christ. In some denominations, baptism is also called christening but for others the word "christening" is reserved for the baptism of infants.
    jamie_baptism03-01-03-2014.jpg
  • The UK government has imposed Coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules on religious gatherings so a priest accompanies two of his parishioners praying at a makeshift altar on the pavement outside St. Patricks Catholic church in Soho Square, between construction work and some offices, on 22nd June 2020, in London, England. The government is expected soon to relax the social distance rules from two metres to one metre in a bid to restart the economy. However, in the last 24hrs a further 15 have died from Covid, bringing the total today to 42,647.
    coronavirus_prayers-01-22-06-2020.jpg
  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9947_1.jpg
  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9929_1.jpg
  • Priest and disabled homeless man. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9895_1.jpg
  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9676_1.jpg
  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9655_1.jpg
  • Trainee Priest showing his devotion. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9590_1 1.jpg
  • Priest at the altar and people workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9427_1.jpg
  • Greece . Athens airport. A passenger, an Orthodox priest, waits to board a domestic flight.
    gr_9922_1.jpg
  • Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 conduct the Summer Festival starting in Yabuhara sanctuary and weaving itself through Kiso Mura village. Seen here the moment of the ceremony called Houbei-no-gi, which expresses the deepest respect moments after the most central part of the sanctuary which dates back to 680 AD at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, is taken down to be placed inside the Mikoshi. The festival known as Matsuri in Japanese is conducted across  80.000 Jinjas sanctuary throughout Japan and the number of Jinja increase to 4.000.000 sanctuaries if including very small ones. All sanctuaries have their own Matsuri throughout the year and Grand festival, known as Taisai. This is only conducted once a year at each sanctuary. The summer festival is called Yabuhara Jinja Taisai annual Grand festival, which is commonly known as Yabuhara Matsuri. Matsuri have been conducted uninterupted every year since the founding of the sanctuary in 680AD.
    20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 conduct the Summer Festival starting in Yabuhara sanctuary and weaving itself through Kiso Mura village. Seen here the moment of the ceremony called Houbei-no-gi, which expresses the deepest respect moments after the most central part of the sanctuary which dates back to 680 AD at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, is taken down to be placed inside the Mikoshi. The festival known as Matsuri in Japanese is conducted across  80.000 Jinjas sanctuary throughout Japan and the number of Jinja increase to 4.000.000 sanctuaries if including very small ones. All sanctuaries have their own Matsuri throughout the year and Grand festival, known as Taisai. This is only conducted once a year at each sanctuary. The summer festival is called Yabuhara Jinja Taisai annual Grand festival, which is commonly known as Yabuhara Matsuri. Matsuri have been conducted uninterupted every year since the founding of the sanctuary in 680AD.
    20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • Coca Dai talks with his priest to make the final preparations before his wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai059.jpg
  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9621_1.jpg
  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9617_1.jpg
  • Bolivia June 2013. La Paz. Statue of a priest (Dom Bosco) with his hand on a girl's head.
    bol1_1028.jpg
  • The Mikoshi is carried through the village of Kiso Mura as part of the Summer festival parade. Here been ovesrlloked by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 the senior Shinto priest of the village of Kiso Mura. For all the participants it’s an all day sake drinking affair, stopping en route to soak up the alcohol with food as they sing along as part of the celebrations. The Mikoshi is also a portable Shinto shrine which on continuation of the ceremony is then carried by a large number of strong young men on their shoulders across the village for approximately 12 – 14 hours.
    20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 conduct the Summer Festival starting in Yabuhara sanctuary and weaving itself through Kiso Mura village. Seen here the moment of the ceremony called Houbei-no-gi, which expresses the deepest respect moments after the most central part of the sanctuary which dates back to 680 AD at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, is taken down to be placed inside the Mikoshi. The festival known as Matsuri in Japanese is conducted across  80.000 Jinjas sanctuary throughout Japan and the number of Jinja increase to 4.000.000 sanctuaries if including very small ones. All sanctuaries have their own Matsuri throughout the year and Grand festival, known as Taisai. This is only conducted once a year at each sanctuary. The summer festival is called Yabuhara Jinja Taisai annual Grand festival, which is commonly known as Yabuhara Matsuri. Matsuri have been conducted uninterupted every year since the founding of the sanctuary in 680AD.
    20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • Shinto priests Masatsugu Okutani, 41 (far right) together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 dressed in their ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary. They are the  24th and 25th uninterrupted generational SHINTO priests in their family line dating back to the 12th century AD. Seen here with priests Kagesi Toyama (far left) and Kiyoto Suyama (center left), which will assist in the ceremonial festivities which take place over a 36 hour period in early July every year.  The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize one's sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the "here and now" and allow one's sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity, Kiso Mura village.
    20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Ki...jpg
  • A detail of a priests Alb outer garment after Mass was held held in a local rural Catholic church, on 15th October 1997, in Neubourg, Normandy, France.
    catholic_church-15-10-1997_3.jpg
  • Priests from the Abbey of Lagrasse having a post Christmas stroll, 27th December 2016, Lagrasse France. The Abbey of St. Mary of Lagrasse is a Romanesque abbey in Lagrasse, southern France. The priests, live in common under the Rule of St. Augustine, and dedicate their lives to the liturgy, which they celebrate in the pre-Vatican II form, and to evangelization. Common life, contemplative life, and apostolic life form the three facets of their charism.
    _E6A4503.jpg
  • Muslim Cham girls wearing white dresses and bronze and copper jewellery receive blessings from the priests at a Karoh (maturity) ceremony in Van Lam, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. Cham girls usually in groups of around 5, undergo a Karoh (maturity) ceremony, one of the most important ritual events of their lives and if it has not taken place, the girl cannot marry. The Cham, a Muslim community of around 39,000 people living along the coast of Central Vietnam are one of the 54 ethnic groups recognised by the Vietnamese government.
    A0027904cc_1.jpg
  • Priests at The Surya Mandir (known as the Monkey Temple), Jaipur, India
    SFE_111029_395_1.jpg
  • Priests in St Peter's Square, The Vatican. Rome, Italy.
    7693_3_15_1_1.jpg
  • Priests from the Abbey of Lagrasse having a post Cristmas stroll, 27th December 2016, Lagrasse France.
    _E6A4503_1_1.jpg
  • Priests conducting the ceremony, drinking holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
    _MG_9566_1.jpg
Next
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x

In Pictures

  • About
  • Contact
  • Join In Pictures
  • Archive
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area