Faith Gallery

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Lightbulbs are tested after they installed between the minarets of Suleymaniye mosque during the installation of mahya in Istanbul August 5, 2010. Mahya, where dangling lights suspended between minarets spell out devotional messages in huge letters, are intended to reward and inspire the faithful who have spent the daylight hours fasting. Today, the tradition unique to Turkey and for which Istanbul's Ottoman-era imperial mosques with their soaring minarets are ideally suited, just a handful of Istanbul's mosques use Mahya; but they are the city's grandest, and the phrases set by Turkey's directorate of religious affairs are legible from afar. Picture taken August 5, 2010. To match Reuters Life! TURKEY-RAMADAN/LIGHTS REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)

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Thousands of believers dressed in purple congregate to pay homage to a painting of the "Lord of Miracles," Peru's most revered Catholic religious icon, in a major procession through central Lima October 18, 2010. The procession, which draws the largest gathering of believers on the continent, can be traced to the colonial era in which an Angolan slave drew the image of a black Jesus Christ on the walls of a hut in the plantation of Pachacamila, near Lima. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)

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An overcrowded train approaches as other passengers wait to board at a railway station in Dhaka, November 16, 2010. Millions of residents in Dhaka are travelling home from the capital city to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday on Wednesday. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha to mark the end of the haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: RELIGION IMAGES OF THE DAY)