Finding comfort: Photos show how faith helped in wake of disaster and tragedy across world

Photos around the world showed the central role faith plays in providing both material and spiritual succor in the wake of disaster and death, be it natural causes or brought about by human conflict.

Seated in a camping chair next to packages of food and water, a man played the guitar in the parking lot of a church-turned-shelter for evacuees from a raging wildfire in California. Hundreds of men attended funeral prayers over 13 wooden coffins containing victims of an explosives attack on a truck in the Pakistani port city of Karachi.