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Mar Elias Church Victims Funeral - Damascus

A priest says prayers on a the casket of one of the people killed in the Mar Elias Church suicide attack during a funeral held in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday June 24, 2025. At least 25 worshipers were killed and 65 wounded when a man opened fire and detonated his explosive vest on Sunday June 22. Photo by Mohamad Daboul/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Floods Cleanup Efforts Continue - Spain

The parish priest with a man in the parish of Nuestra Señora del Pilar on November 10, 2024, in Catarroja, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. The DANA, which swept through the province of Valencia on October 29, has already left more than 220 dead and more than 40 missing. In addition, five of the municipalities affected by the storm are still without drinking water, in another 60 it is recommended to boil it before consumption and 7,000 homes are still without water supply. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Floods Cleanup Efforts Continue - Spain

The parish priest with a man in the parish of Nuestra Señora del Pilar on November 10, 2024, in Catarroja, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. The DANA, which swept through the province of Valencia on October 29, has already left more than 220 dead and more than 40 missing. In addition, five of the municipalities affected by the storm are still without drinking water, in another 60 it is recommended to boil it before consumption and 7,000 homes are still without water supply. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Ceremony to pray for rich grain harvest at Kyoto temple

KYOTO,Japan, June 20 Kyodo -A man posing as a monk soldier chops green bamboo stalks, representing a big snake, during a traditional ceremony dating back over 1,000 years to pray for a rich harvest of grain at Kurama Temple in Kyoto on June 20, 2024.(Kyodo)

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Holodomor Remembrance Day in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 25, 2023 - Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine His Beatitude Epiphanius attends the events commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the genocide of the Ukrainian people, at the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide on Holodomor Remembrance Day, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. On the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Holodomor, the 193233 man-made famine that killed millions.

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One dead in machete attack in Spanish churches

STORY: One dead in machete attack in Spanish churches DATELINE: Jan. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:00 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the scene of the attack STORYLINE: A man armed with a machete killed one person and injured several others on Wednesday when storming two churches in the city of Algeciras in southern Spain. Local police said a sexton was killed and a priest was seriously wounded in the attack. According to reports from the Spanish TV network RTVE, the attacker shouted "Allah" during his attack. Police said the attacker had been arrested. The details of the attacker's name or nationality have not been released. The authorities are investigating the attack as a possible act of terrorism. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Madrid. (XHTV)

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Bamboo cutting ritual at Kurama Temple

KYOTO, Japan - A man wearing the costume of a warrior priest cuts a bamboo, symbolizing a big snake, with a sword during the traditional "Takekirie" bamboo cutting ritual at Kurama Temple in Kyoto City on June 20, 2014.

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A-bomb artifact sold for 45 pounds at auction amid criticism

LINCOLN, Britain - Auctioneers explain an artifact from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945 which was put up for auction July 11 in Lincoln and sold for 45 pounds (about 6,700 yen). An 81-year-old British man decided to sell a roof tile from a Buddhist temple which was damaged by the explosion. He was given the piece by Sairenji's priest as a gift when he traveled to Hiroshima in 1952.

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Catholic Priest Murdered In Western France

File photo dated July 18, 2021 - A view of partially burnt facade of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes, western France, on July 18, 2020. A volunteer detained for questioning over the fire has been released without charge. The blaze tore through the cathedral early on Saturday morning, destroying stained glass windows and the grand organ inside. The detained Rwandan refugee, 39, was in charge of locking up the building the day before the fire. The Nantes public prosecutor said the man was freed on Sunday evening. -- A Rwandan national suspected of causing a major fire that ravaged the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last year murdered a Catholic priest Olivier Maire in western France. Photo by Masson A/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Catholic Priest Murdered In Western France

File photo dated July 18, 2021 - A view of partially burnt facade of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes, western France, on July 18, 2020. A volunteer detained for questioning over the fire has been released without charge. The blaze tore through the cathedral early on Saturday morning, destroying stained glass windows and the grand organ inside. The detained Rwandan refugee, 39, was in charge of locking up the building the day before the fire. The Nantes public prosecutor said the man was freed on Sunday evening. -- A Rwandan national suspected of causing a major fire that ravaged the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last year murdered a Catholic priest Olivier Maire in western France. Photo by Masson A/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Catholic Priest Murdered In Western France

File photo dated July 18, 2021 - A view of partially burnt facade of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes, western France, on July 18, 2020. A volunteer detained for questioning over the fire has been released without charge. The blaze tore through the cathedral early on Saturday morning, destroying stained glass windows and the grand organ inside. The detained Rwandan refugee, 39, was in charge of locking up the building the day before the fire. The Nantes public prosecutor said the man was freed on Sunday evening. -- A Rwandan national suspected of causing a major fire that ravaged the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last year murdered a Catholic priest Olivier Maire in western France. Photo by Masson A/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Catholic Priest Murdered In Western France

File photo dated July 18, 2021 - A view of partially burnt facade of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes, western France, on July 18, 2020. A volunteer detained for questioning over the fire has been released without charge. The blaze tore through the cathedral early on Saturday morning, destroying stained glass windows and the grand organ inside. The detained Rwandan refugee, 39, was in charge of locking up the building the day before the fire. The Nantes public prosecutor said the man was freed on Sunday evening. -- A Rwandan national suspected of causing a major fire that ravaged the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last year murdered a Catholic priest Olivier Maire in western France. Photo by Masson A/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Catholic Priest Murdered In Western France

File photo dated July 18, 2021 - A view of partially burnt facade of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes, western France, on July 18, 2020. A volunteer detained for questioning over the fire has been released without charge. The blaze tore through the cathedral early on Saturday morning, destroying stained glass windows and the grand organ inside. The detained Rwandan refugee, 39, was in charge of locking up the building the day before the fire. The Nantes public prosecutor said the man was freed on Sunday evening. -- A Rwandan national suspected of causing a major fire that ravaged the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last year murdered a Catholic priest Olivier Maire in western France. Photo by Masson A/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Saint Of 9/11; Saint Of 9 11 (2006)

Father Mychal Judge & Homeless Man Film: Saint Of 9/11; Saint Of 9 11 (2006) Director: Glenn Holsten 27 April 2006 Date: 27 April 2006

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The Best Man (2005)

Amy Smart, Seth Green, Peter Capaldi & Stuart Townsend Characters: sarah marie barker, murray, priest, olly pickering Film: The Best Man (2005) Director: Stefan Schwartz 10 November 2005 Ein Trauzeuge zum Verlieben (The Best Man, GB 2005, Regie: Stefan Schwartz) Amy Smart (li.), Seth Green (vorn, 2.v.li.), Stuart Townsend (re.), hi.: Peter Capaldi (Pastor) / Braut, Trauzeuge, Trauzeugen, heiraten, Hochzeit, Heirat, Kirche innen / ------- WICHTIG: Nutzung nur bei Filmtitelnennung und/oder in Zusammenhang mit Berichterstattung ｸber diesen Film --- IMPORTANT: To be used solely for coverage of this specific motion picture/tv programme Date: 10 November 2005

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A Man For All Seasons - film (1966)

Orsen Welles Film: A Man For All Seasons (1967) Director: Fred Zinnemann 12 December 1966 Date: 12-Dec-66

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Ride The Man Down film (1952)

Barbara Britton Characters: Lottie Priest Film: Ride The Man Down (1956) Director: Joseph Kane 25 November 1952 Date: 25-Nov-52

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A-bomb artifact sold for 45 pounds at auction amid criticism

LINCOLN, Britain - Auctioneers explain an artifact from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945 which was put up for auction July 11 in Lincoln and sold for 45 pounds (about 6,700 yen). An 81-year-old British man decided to sell a roof tile from a Buddhist temple which was damaged by the explosion. He was given the piece by Sairenji's priest as a gift when he traveled to Hiroshima in 1952. (Kyodo)

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A priest and his disciple

This is a loose photograph from a Yokohama album. Taken at a photograph studio, it shows a Buddhist priest with a kesa and formal head covering and an apprentice praying to a statue of Buddha. The makeshift altar looks crude.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐86‐0]

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Priests

This Yokohama photograph is entitled (in pen), Priests- Buddhists and shows two young priests. The studio backdrop suggests that it was taken by Stillfried in the early Meiji Period.==Date:about 1870, Place:unknown, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐72‐0]

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The Chokugaku-mon Gate of Yusho-in Reibyo, Zojoji Temple, Shiba

Chokugaku Gate at Yushoin Mausoleum, located outside the Hall of Worship, is viewed from the southeast. Although probably staged, the photograph depicts a man kneeling on the stone steps and a Buddhist monk touching the gatepost engraved with dragons. It is said that the stone lanterns donated by the feudal lords numbered more than one thousand.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐42‐0]

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A priest

This is a photograph from an album by Usui Shuzaburo. The caption written in pencil says, Japanese Priest. The priest is wearing a kesa robe with white tabi socks and is holding a hossu brush.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number94‐22‐0]

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A priest

This is a photographs from a Yokohama album by an anonymous photographer. It shows a Buddhist priest with shaved head wearing a kimono with an opulent kesa robe and holding a hossu brush.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐49‐0]

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A priest and his disciples

This photograph by Kashima Seibei bears the English title Buddhist Priests. The old priest is sitting on the chair performing a service, and the two young apprentices at his side are holding Buddhist utensils.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kajima Seibei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐24‐0]

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Samurai warriors in travelling attire

Twelve men in travel attire with swords at the waist pose for the camera. One man is holding a straw hat, and his head looks like that of a Buddhist priest. The men standing on the left wearing coats with family crests and derby hats are watching the travellers.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐14‐0]

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A priest

This photograph by Kashima Seibei bears the English title, Buddhist Priest. The priest is wearing the kesa robe of high-ranking clergy over a purple kimono. Behind him is a byobu screen with illustrations.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐15‐0]

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Priests facing each other

This is one of the photographs in the 1876 album by Stillfried. It shows two Buddhist priests in official attire. The tatami mats and fusuma doors suggest that this was taken in a temple. Early Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number76‐23‐0]

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A monk with a begging bowl

This business card-sized photograph of Buddhist priests is mounted on paper of unknown origin. The priests are dressed as mendicants and appear to be women. They are wearing amigasa hats and straw sandals. There is a house with a latticed window behind them.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐81‐0]

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Higashi Honganji Temple

The Taishi-do of Higashihonganji Temple is viewed from the southeast. Men stand under magnificent looking pines in front of the building. The Taishi-do took 15 years to build. It was completed in 1895 according to the wishes of the head priest, Otani Kosho. Built in single-story irimoya style with a tiled roof, it is 76m wide, 56m deep, 38m high, and covers 3,800 square metres. It is the largest wooden structure in the world.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐61‐0]

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Priests

This is a collotype photograph by Tamamura Kozaburo from a Yokohama album. The English title is written in pen and says, Priests. The photograph shows priests praying with prayer beads. The models appear to be women.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐8‐0]

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Priests

This is a collotype photograph by Tamamura Kozaburo from a Yokohama album. The English title is written in pen and says, Priests. This photograph was staged at a photograph studio. The older priest is holding juzu beads and a hossu brush, while the younger one is holding a fan and a juzu.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐2‐0]

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A Shinto priest

The man wears a full Shinto priest costume with an eboshi cap and holds a mace. A scroll is displayed in the alcove to the far left, and an altar is visible. Sacred paper strips and a sacred pitcher are seen on the plain wood tray.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number60‐3‐2]

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A home in the cave,Dogashima Island

This is the cave just before Shiraito Falls after going up the mountain road behind Yakushi-do after crossing Hayakawa River from Dogashima. It is reported that the famous Buddhist monk Musokokushi (1275-1351, a Zen priest and probably the most important figure in Japanese medieval garden design) practiced religious austerities during Muromachi Period. An old man and young sisters are standing at the entrance of the cave and someone appears inside. Sandals are being dried on the rock and the bloom and pail are placed at the entrance. It is possible that they used the water from the falls.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐21‐0]

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A funeral procession

If the letters on the sacerdotal robe worn by the rickshaw man were legible, it might be possible to determine the identity of the deceased. The colouring applied to the purple bamboo blind of the coffin, the clothes of the priest and the children is skillful and looks natural.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐149‐0]

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Priests

This is a Yokohama photograph, possibly depicting a Buddhist service at a big temple. It shows a number of Buddhist priests in opulent kesa robes surrounded by the faithful.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐132‐0]

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Priests

This is one of a set of photographs from a Yokohama album. A business card-sized photograph, it shows a group of eleven young Buddhist priests wearing official kimono, kesa and white tabi socks. Some are holding fans, some are showing Buddhist mudra, and others have their hands hidden under their sleeves.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐55‐0]

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The entrance to Ueno Park

The stairs on the right lead to Ueno Park from Ueno Square. The hill above the stairs was called Sakuragaoka. A Confucian Shrine (later moved to Yushima) was built there in 1630 by Hayashi Razan. The famous statue of Saigo Takamori by Takamura Koun was erected here in 1897. The roof to the left of the stairs is Ueno Kiyomizu-do, built by the priest Tenkai. The Kuromon (Black Gate) was stood formerly on the site at the left edge of the photograph. Mid-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐68‐0]

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A priest

This photograph from an anonymous Yokohama album bears the English title, Buddhist Priest. The priest keep his fan in the neck of his kimono when he is not holding it. He wears a kesa robe and holds juzu beads.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number47‐49‐0]

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Disciplinant blowing a trumpet shell

An ascetic wearing high geta clogs blows a triton while walking eastward on the old Hanaya-machi Street. A Caucasian man wearing white clothes is watching him with interest. This is the busy Nishihonganji Temple quarter with advertisements, lanterns, gas lights at shop fronts, and Buddhist accessory shops. The Kyozo (Sutra Repository) of Nishihonganji Temple is visible over Horikawa River through the foliage.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐112‐0]

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Tea ceremony

Probably a scene of tea ceremony practice. The master serves tea to a priest and two young women in furisode (long-sleeve kimono). On the tatami, there is the tea kettle, tea spoon, tea container, sweets to go with the tea and tea cups.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐19‐0]

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IWAMOTO GOZEN,LORD

Carried on page 79 of the July 17, 1872 edition of The Far East. This person is the brother of a feudal lord who is a Shinto priest at Enoshima. He is 85 years old, and manages a hotel. He asked what the purpose of the photo was and agreed to be photographed when told that it would be a memento after his death.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐57‐0]

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A priest

Taken by Beato Written Japanese priest . A young priest wears a surplice in front of a temple. The same photo is seen in the stereo photos by W. Burger, and the location of the photo may be Nagasaki.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐23‐0]

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A priest

A Buddhist priest wears a surplice and priests hat and holds a hossu in his hand.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐24‐0]

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A priest

A Buddhist priest wearing a kesa (surplice) and holding a purifier.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐29‐0]

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Benten Pond,Eikan-do Temple

The head temple of the Jodo Sect, Nishiyama Zenrinji, in the Eikandoji in the Sakyo district, Kyoto City. The lake is surrounded by trees in the spacious temple grounds and has a bridge. At the foot of the lake is a priest sitting, and in the fore a parked rickshaw. The rickshaw man seems to be talking with the priest.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐42‐0]

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A funeral procession

A priest wearing a head dress sits at the seat placed in the centre and chants from scriptures toward the coffin placed in front. To the right and left of the coffin are three priests each holding bells etc.In the foreground stands a man wearing a haori (kimono coat ) and his child.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number2‐49‐0]

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A priest

A Buddhist priest holding holy scriptures and wearing a kesa (surplice).==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number1‐18‐0]

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Bamboo cutting ritual at Kurama Temple

KYOTO, Japan - A man wearing the costume of a warrior priest cuts a bamboo, symbolizing a big snake, with a sword during the traditional "Takekirie" bamboo cutting ritual at Kurama Temple in Kyoto City on June 20, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Shinto shrine head, 2 others killed in Tokyo sword attack

File photo taken in September 2013 shows Tomioka Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, where three people including the chief priest Nagako Tomioka, 58, were killed and one man was injured in a sword attack on Dec. 7, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kanji for "disaster" chosen as best to characterize 2018

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest of Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the kanji character "sai" meaning disaster with a calligraphy brush on Dec. 12, 2018. The character was selected as the single best kanji to symbolize the national mood for the year, referencing a string of natural and man-made calamities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo