Photos of the Week: 11/10 – 11/16

This week's picks for our weekly gallery of religion photos from around the world.

Performers dressed as Santa Claus stand posed in a line during a photocall for the media for the Ministry of Fun Santa School outside the Ragged School Museum in east London, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The Ministry of Fun Santa School is Britain's only genuine training school for professional Santas, preparing them to help out in grottos, department stores, attractions and events over the Christmas period. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious practice around the world. This week’s includes images from the Ministry of Fun Santa School in London; the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.; the “Sigd” holiday in Jerusalem; a graveside service in Sutherland Springs, Texas; a ritual called “Mekotek,” in Bali, Indonesia — and more.

Performers dressed as Santa Claus stand posed in a line during a photocall for the media for the Ministry of Fun Santa School outside the Ragged School Museum in east London, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The Ministry of Fun Santa School is Britain’s only genuine training school for professional Santas, preparing them to help out in grottos, department stores, attractions and events over the Christmas period. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Christian worshipers pray during a procession to commemorate the bringing of the remains of the great martyr St. George to Lod, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. Dozens of Christian Arabs have protested against the Greek Orthodox patriarch of the Holy Land, demanding the resignation of Theophilos III for allegedly selling church land to Israelis. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)


A Pakistani girl stands amid of supporters of Pakistani radical religious party, Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah, as they offer Friday prayers during a sit-in protest in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. Hundreds of Islamists have camped out on the edge of Pakistan’s capital to demand the removal of the country’s law minister over a recently omitted reference to the Prophet Muhammad in a constitutional bill. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

A woman prays outside of the Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a week after a man opened fire inside the church. Hundreds of people gathered in the tiny town for a Sunday service at a tent erected in a baseball field. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Rohingya Muslims travel on a raft made with plastic containers on which they crossing over the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh, as children watch from the bank of the river near Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. More than 600,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority have fled into Bangladesh since August. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

A door opens to the “Exodus” section inside the Museum of the Bible, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in Washington. The project is largely funded by the conservative Christian owners of the Hobby Lobby crafts chain. Hobby Lobby president Steve Green says the aim is to educate not evangelize. But skeptics call the project a Christian ministry disguised as a museum. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ethiopian Jews pray during the ‘Sigd’ holiday in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate the biblical union between the Jewish people and God. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

The Apostolic Palace is reflected in the sunglasses of a man attending Pope Francis’ Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Balloons are released at a graveside service for members of the Holcombe family who were killed in the Sutherland Springs Baptist Church shooting, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A man opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas community Sunday, Nov. 5, killing more than two dozen. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Villagers parade a huge a cone of sticks during a ritual called “Mekotek,” a traditional stick fighting ceremony used to celebrate the triumph of good over evil, in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. The ritual is held every six months by men of a village bringing long sticks and parading it around the village. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

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