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Christians praying in Aleppo and Muslims praying in Damascus
Left: The dance of the Hassidim. Right: A Christian penitential ritual that happens every seven years in the Italian town of Guardia Sanframondo
Left: A young Tibetan monk walks toward the Himalayan mountains. Right: The bazaar in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The town is well known for its complex of cave churches, where a symbolic design that reproduces the sacred geography of Celestial Jerusalem is cared into the tufa rock.
Left: To honor the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, the Sufi of Ethiopia run into the middle of the desert, grasping branches of trees similar to olive trees, which they then burn as they sing. Right: Tibetan nomads cooking under a black tent made of young yak wool.
Left: A Moroccan Muslim woman writhes, like the possessed tarantolate, in southern Italy. Right: In Haiti, it is through water that the souls of the dead reunite with the living. Here it happens in a kind of collective epiphany, a mass possession of the initiates.
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A fertility and harvest festival in Libya.
Tuareg Muslim, in the Sahara in Libya
The Samaritans sacrifice lambs in a burnt offering, a tradition that comes from Abraham sacrificing a lamb instead of his son. Mount Gerizim, Israel.
A procession on the night of Good Friday in Sessa Aurunca, Italy.
A follower of Ogun in Haiti dries off the sweat-drenched face of a drum player.
Egyptian Sufis practice sacred dances and dhikr prayers.
Preparation for a baptism in the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite, in Egypt.
Christians returning home at dawn after a night of vigil, dream, song and dance. Ethiopia.
The Hasidim dance. Israel.
A novitiate of the Monastery of Saint Anthony. Egypt.
The eve of the National Vodoun festival in Abomey, once the capital of what had been the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin.
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