Photos featured this week include flooding in New Delhi, a deadly bus crash in southern Mexico and Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia touring Ukraine.
Authorities and volunteers work at the site of a deadly bus crash in southern Mexico July 5, 2023. The bus lost control and veered off a road and into a 75-foot-deep gully in the largely Indigenous Mixteca region of the southern state of Oaxaca, killing at least 29 passengers, officials said. (OSV News photo/Jose de Jesus Cortes, Reuters)
Activists are pictured in a file photo carrying placards during a protest against assisted suicide in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin. Assisted suicide remains unregulated in Germany as lawmakers fail to agree on new rules to regulate it; churches and other interest groups have urged that suicide prevention efforts be strengthened. (OSV News photo/Thomas Peter, Reuters)
Ukrainian and Polish clergymen lead a a service to commemorate victims of World War II at St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Lutsk, Ukraine, July 9, 2023. (OSV News photo/Alina Smutko, Reuters)
People walk in a procession for a celebration during the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Giglio Sunday, July 9, 2023. The oldest Italian American feast in New York City and home of the world famous Dance of the Giglio opened opened July 5 and ends July 16, the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. (OSV News photo/Amr Alfiky, Reuters)
In this June 29, 2023 image, Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia inspect a memorial near Irpin, Ukraine made of cars shelled by Russian troops as Ukrainian civilians attempted to flee the area in 2022. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)
Police officers on patrol take part in an anti-gang operation amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 3, 2023. U.N. human rights expert William O’Neill, who was appointed to assess the situation in Haiti in April, told reporters June 28 that a “specialized international force” is needed to help fight gang violence ravaging the impoverished Caribbean nation. (OSV News photo/Ralph Tedy Erol, Reuters)
Residents carry their belongings on a rickshaw July 12, 2023, as they wade through a street flooded by the rising water level of the Yamuna River after heavy monsoon rains battered New Delhi. Schools in India’s capital were closed because of the heavy rains, which caused landslides and flash floods in the country’s north, killing at least 15 people over a three-day period. (OSV News photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters)
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