ISRAEL. Jerusalem. 1995. Refectory of the orphanage run by Franciscans in the Old City. Plates and cups are aligned under a woven carpet of the Last Supper. | License

PHILIPPINES. Pampanga district. Village of Santa Lucia. 1995. Crucifixion of a fidel on Good Friday. | License

SPAIN. Sevilla. 1996. Holy week. The head of Jesus is displayed in a shop window during the Semana Santa. | License

SOUTH KOREA. Umsong. 1998. A Christian volonteer feeds a handicapped child in the "Flower Village" run by Catholic priests. | License

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 1999. Every Sunday, at dawn, priests of the Zion Church, from the Khayelitsha black township, take their newly converted congregation to the sea to be baptised through immersion. | License

MALI. Bamako. 1994. At sunrise, a fisherman in his boat on the river Niger. | License

SUDAN. Near Weethoa Gang. 1998. Women prepare the evening meal in a Nuer village set in a zone where guerillas fight the central government of Khartum. | License

MALI. Village of Bandiagara. 1996. Abbot Georges FONGORO celebrates an evening mass inside a parishioner's courtyard. | License

RUSSIA. Moscow. 1998. Priests of the "Church of the Mother of God" attend to a statue of Mary. This church, founded by the Archibishop Johann, is dedicated to the Marial cult and is open to dialogue with other Christian denominations. | License

RUSSIA. Veliokoretskaya. Pilgrimage of Saint Nicolas. At the end of a 120 kms walk, the pilgrims pass under the tree where the icon of the saint is supposed to have been found in the 16th century. This is a pagan ritual within an Orthodox pilgrimage. 1998. | License

RUSSIA. Vyatka region. 1998. Pilgrimage of St. Nicolas. The saint's icon is carried from village to village, covering 120 kms in three days. This pilgrimage dates back to the 16th century. | License

PHILIPPINES. Town of Davao. Matina district. 1995. Christianity. Aglipayan National Church member, which has broken from Catholic Church in 19th century. | License

BRAZIL. Bahia state. Salvador. District of Pelhourinho. 1996. A "wounded angel" in the Church of Nossa Senhora de Rosario. | License

BRAZIL. Sao Paulo state. Aparecida do Norte. 1996. Candles offered to Nossa Senhora Aparecida, patron saint of Brazil. | License

PHILIPPINES. Manila. 1995. Widows of Jesus mourn Christ's crucifixion around the church of San Augustin, during the Holy Week. | License

FRANCE. Saint Benoit sur Loire. Abbaye de Fleury. 1997. At meal time, monks bow to the Lord, thanking Him for the food which is about to be partaken. | License

SERBIA. Zica. 1995. The Orthodox monastery. A nun stands outside the church during lithurgy inside. | License

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1996. Newly born Christians, about to be baptised, pin their written confession to the cross standing on the stage of the Willow Creek Community Church. The church, one of the richest in the country, is pastored by Bill HYBLES. One sinner has written his confession on a floppy disk, pinned to the bottom on the cross. | License

SOUTH AFRICA. Ficksburg. 1999. Jackie VON MALITZ, a self-confessed extreme right winger, who believes that the country was sold to the Blacks, carries a gun over her Bible after a Saturday service held in the Seventh Day Adventist Church. | License

CUBA. Havana. 1997. Church of Cristo de Buen Viaje. A woman listening to a sermon raises her Bible as a flag, before going to visit homes to take in "the Lord's words". Up to the late 1990s, proselytism was strictly prohibited in Cuba. | License

USA. New York. New York City. 2003. Bishop Liston PAGE lays hands on a woman to protect her from disease during a Pentecostal service in the Greater Highway Church of Christ he pastors in East Harlem. | License

SPAIN. Sevilla. Holy week. Olympic champion Carl Lewis springs from an ad poster as hooded Nazarenos linger about. | License

USA. New York City. Manhattan. An impersonator of Jesus Christ. 1999. | License

BRAZIL. Ceara state. Juazeiro do Norte. 1996. A man, who had his shoulder and arm amputated after having been hit by gunfire, makes a pilgrimage to the statue of Padre Cicero, to thank him. for a miraculous cure. | License

USA. Alabama. Selma. MARIE ROSE, self-appointed "Prophet of Jesus" displays both the Christian cross and the American flag outside her shack-house she has turned into a church bearing hand-written religious sayings. 2003. | License

U.S.A. Alabama. Montgomery. November 12, 2003. Fundamentalist Christians display the Ten Commandments at the rally in favour of State Supreme Chief Justice Roy MOORE about to be dismissed for refusing to remove a 15-ton Ten Commandments sculpture from the entrance hall to the Supreme Court. | License

SENEGAL. Fadiouth. 1988. Baobab trees stand guard, monstrous and familiar giants, over tombstones in the Catholic cemetery of Fadiouth. | License