Photos of the Week: 11/24 – 11/30

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

People take part during a candlelight vigil as they hold national flag for victims of a Friday mosque attack at the Journalists Syndicate, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Friday's assault was Egypt's deadliest attack by Islamic extremists in the country's modern history, a grim milestone in a long-running fight against an insurgency led by a local affiliate of the Islamic State group.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious practice around the world. This week’s includes images from a candlelight vigil in Egypt; a Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh; the Mar de Plata Naval Base in Argentina; a road in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where workers prepared for a visit from Pope Francis; Bosnian Croat people praying in the town of Mostar; the National Institute of Professional Training in Tegucigalpa, Honduras – and more.

People take part during a candlelight vigil as they hold national flag for victims of a Friday mosque attack at the Journalists Syndicate, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Friday’s assault was Egypt’s deadliest attack by Islamic extremists in the country’s modern history, a grim milestone in a long-running fight against an insurgency led by a local affiliate of the Islamic State group.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Bosnian Croat people, gather to light candles and pray for Gen. Slobodan Praljak, in southern Bosnian town of Mostar 140 kms south of Sarajevo, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. Praljak yelled, “I am not a war criminal!” and appeared to drink from a small bottle, seconds after judges reconfirmed his 20-year prison sentence for involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat ministate in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Croatia’s state TV says Praljak who claimed to have taken poison just after his 20-year sentence was upheld by appeals judges at a U.N. war crimes tribunal, has died. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)


Rohingya Muslim men carry the body to a cemetery in Kutupalong refugee camp on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017, in Bangladesh. Since late August, more than 620,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state into neighboring Bangladesh, where they are living in squalid refugee camps. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

A relative of missing submarine crew member Celso Oscar Vallejo kneels in prayer in front of the Mar de Plata Naval Base, Argentina, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. The international search continues for the ARA San Juan submarine carrying 44 crew members that has been lost in the South Atlantic for ten days. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A portrait of Pope Francis is displayed as workers sweep a road the Pope is expected to take during his visit, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. Pope Francis is expected to arrive in Bangladesh Thursday on the second leg of his weeklong South Asia tour. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones, reflected in the window in front of the 16th Street Baptist Church and speaks to the media about his role in the prosecutions of klansman in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. Jones was the prosecutor for the case in the bombing deaths of four young black girls in the 1963 explosion at the 16th Street Baptist Church. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Supporters of Libre Alliance presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla kneel in prayer during a protest outside the National Institute of Professional Training, where election ballots are stored, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. Nasralla has alleged fraud and said he won’t respect the official results. He’s watched an initial five-point lead diminish in recent days as official results have trickled out, giving incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez a slim lead for re-election. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A group from Teotihuacan wafts ceremonial incense to perform rites at the site where the body of Lesvy Berlin Osorio was found, ahead of the arrival of Maria de Jesus Patricio, known as MariChuy, presidential candidate for the National Indigenous Congress, and Osorio’s mother, on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Many of Mexico’s voiceless, impoverished indigenous people see Patricio as a way to assert their own voice in politics. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A grave is decorated with lights on occasion of the last Sunday before Advent commemorating the dead on the main cemetery in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017. This commemoration day of the protestant church has a 200-year-old tradition. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

People celebrate Moulid al-Nabi, a gathering which commemorates the birth of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, outside al-Hussein Mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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