5385 - Syro-Malabar Catholic family at prayer, Akkaparambu, Kerala, India.

692 - Pilgrim with prayer wheel, Lhasa, Tibet.

660 - Tibetan refugee, Bir, Himachel Pradesh, India.

ni0457 - Charismatic prayer, Catholic mass at Rancho Grande, Nicaragua.

3053 - Prayer meeting at Hutu refugee camp with Friar Dan Dhmann, Ngara, Tanzania.

675 - Bethany Catholic novices of the Syro-Malankaran rite at prayer, Trivandrum, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

mn0442 - Old woman with prayer beads, Gandan Buddhist monastery and temple, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia.

06mm223 - Sunday mass in the Catholic church at Myitkyina, a largely Kachin, and Catholic, community in north Burma near the Chinese border. Woman with prayer book, Myanmar.

7365 - Old woman deep in prayer at mass at the Catholic church, Xinghe village, Shanxi, Xian, China.

7360 - Women deep in prayer at mass at the Catholic church, Xinghe village, Shanxi, Xian, China.

mn0445 - Old woman spinning prayer wheels, Gandan Buddhist monastery and temple, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia.

3047 - Prayer meeting at Hutu refugee camp with Friar Dan Dhmann, Ngara, South Sudan, Sudan.

06cn011 - Prayer beads on sale at Yuantong Buddhist temple, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.

7325 - The seminary at, Xian, China.

9840 - Aspirants at prayer, Daughters of Saint Thomas, Palai, Kerala, India.

6490 - Prayer circle Nanyangacor, South Sudan, Sudan.

7169 - The Buddhist Temple, Beijing, China.

9839 - Prayer session by aspirants, Daughters of Saint Thomas, Palai, Kerala, India.

5553 - Woman reading prayer at Legion of Mary meeting,Ticimul, Yucatan, Mexico.

mn0417 - Pilgrims spinning prayer wheels Gandan monastery, Ulaan Baatur, Mongolia.

mn0418 - Pilgrims spinning prayer wheels Gandan monastery, Ulaan Baatur, Mongolia.

mn0419 - Pilgrims spinning prayer wheels Gandan monastery, Ulaan Baatur, Mongolia.

9841 - Aspirants at prayer, Daughters of Saint Thomas, Palai, Kerala, India.

9836 - Sister Claris Thazhathuveettil, at prayer, Novitiate House, Palai, Kerala, India.

7330 - A seminarian at the seminary at Xian, China.

06in233 - Queen’s Garments, a project for poor women run by the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (CMC) Sisters, Kottayam, Kerala. All the women stop work at 12 noon for a few minutes to say the Angelus prayer. 2006, India.

5149 - Prayer wheels and temple at Iviolginsk Monastery , Buryatia, Russia.

04et252 - 64-year-old Meregeta Zewde Tadesi, a scribe who was trained in Gondar, writing a prayer book, Bilbala village, near Lalibela. With his son, who is also studying the art, Ethiopia.

05co098 - Women’s group meet for an evangelical Christian prayer service, Ciudad Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia.

04et257 - 64-year-old Meregeta Zewde Tadesi, a scribe who was trained in Gondar, writing a prayer book, Bilbala village, near Lalibela. A detail of the master writing. He always squats on his haunches and writes on his knee, in the traditional style, Ethiopia.