In a newly founded church in Mexico committed to Diego Maradona, a reproduction of his famous no. 10 shirts and other souvenirs adorned an altar in honor of the Argentine football legend who died in November.
An ocean in the distance in Madrid, a bullfighter dressed in a “suit of lights” or a soft suit richly embroidered, took the hand of a young woman in prayer in a chapel before performing in the famous arena of Las Ventas.
Several photographs captured through AP photographers from around the world in July highlighted a likely interaction between the world of religion and the sport’s more secular and recreational realm.
This included the jewel in the quadrennial crown of the sports festival: the Summer Olympics, which took place this year in Tokyo. Muslim women from all over the world.
And rarely did he arrive with a more whimsical tone: In Miami, San Diego Padres baseball enthusiasts donned brown monk robes and bald tonsure wigs at the ballpark as they dressed and applauded in prayer for the game of the team opposed to the Marlins.
July has also been a month of festivals and ceremonies sacred to devout traditions around the world.
For a moment a year, the hajj’s annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, has been drastically reduced due to the pandemic, but others have done their best to make the most of it: staff dressed in a hygienic mask have set up a tent camp. welcome pilgrims in the nearby town of Mina; newly deployed policemen, two officers of the force remained alert and in uniform as worshippers walked past the cube-shaped construction of the Kaaba of the Great Mosque; and Muslims prayed in the shade of umbrellas on the open-air Rocky Mountain of Mercy in Mecca.
At the end of the hajj, the Eid al-Adha dinner or “Feast of Sacrifice” was celebrated through Muslims in Tel Aviv, Israel, where Palestinians enjoyed a dip in the Mediterranean Sea, in Dakar, Senegal, where a boy walked coldly through the sand dressed in sunglasses and dressed in his prayer mat after ending up in a mosque.
In India, a hindu devotee grimaced in a ritual of piercing the cheeks with a steel bar on an annual pilgrimage to the temple of goddess Sheetla Mata in the northern city of Jammu, while to the south in Hyderabad, a worshipper sported a brightly colored face. painting for the bonalu festival of a month dedicated to Kali, goddess of destruction.
And in Jerusalem, ultra-Orthodox Jewish men observed the fasting day of Ticha Be Av, which commemorates the destruction of ancient temples, offering prayers at the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray in the Old City.
These and many others are among the AP religion-like photographs of the month.
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