Photos of the Week

This week’s photo selection includes Eid al-Fitr commemorations, coronavirus complications and more

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes Eid al-Fitr commemorations, coronavirus complications and more

A worshipper offers Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, outside a shrine to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 24, 2020. Muslims worldwide celebrated one of their biggest holidays under the long shadow of the coronavirus, with millions confined to their homes and others gripped by economic concerns during what is usually a festive time of shopping and celebration. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)


Muslim worshippers offer Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a park in Jaffa, Israel, Sunday, May 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A cemetery worker shovels dirt into the grave of Apolonia Uanampa, who died from the new coronavirus, as the coffin that contains the remains of Demetria Huamani, background, also a victim of the virus, is carried to her burial site at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A Greek Orthodox priest distributes Holy Communion during Sunday Mass, May 24, 2020, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, using the traditional method of a shared spoon. Contrary to scientific evidence, the Greek Orthodox Church and its followers insist it is impossible for any disease, including the coronavirus, to be transmitted through Holy Communion. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Astronauts James A. McDivitt, left center, and Edward H. White II, right, have breakfast with two Florida priests and NASA officials at Cape Kennedy on the morning the Gemini 4 spacecraft took off for a four-day orbital flight into space, June 3, 1965. The priests are Msgr. Irvine J. Nugent of Daytona Beach, second right, and the Rev. James Herlihy of St. Augustine, top center. The 55th anniversary of the mission is next week. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society

Municipal workers disinfect the grounds of the historical Suleymaniye Mosque, in Istanbul, during the third day of Eid el-Fitr and the last day of a four day curfew due to the coronavirus outbreak, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Istanbul municipal workers disinfected several mosques which were locked down for more than six weeks and will be partly open again for prayers on Friday, May 29. The Muslim holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, traditionally a time of gathering, was marked by a nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Children react from inside their family’s car as a volunteer from the Muslim Community Center blows bubbles at them as part of an Eid al-Fitr celebration, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Sunday, May 24, 2020, in New York. Due to the need for social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic, the celebration was held as a drive-thru event in which sweets and toys were handout out. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Patricia Perry tends some of the ten tons of food, clothing, medicine and books collected by Catholics in the Detroit archdiocese in July 1965 for shipment to Selma, Alabama, to aid civil rights workers in that racially torn city. The relief materials were collected by representatives of the Detroit Catholic Archbishop’s Committee for Human Relations. Patricia’s mother served as drive chairman. RNS archive photo by Keith J. Pitcher. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society


Orthodox worshipers at an open archaeological site outside the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, which includes ruins dating as far back as the Roman Empire, hold candles during a religious service in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Romanian Orthodox Archbishop Teodosie rescheduled the Orthodox Easter service, which was to be held in mid-April, to offer worshippers an opportunity to celebrate Easter properly after the cancelling of the original April 19 service due to the national lockdown imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Muslims wearing face masks attend Eid al-Fitr prayers outside a mosque in Gaza City, Sunday, May 24, 2020. Millions of Muslims worldwide are marking a muted Eid al-Fitr, the festival that ends the fasting month of Ramadan, usually a joyous three-day celebration that has been significantly toned down as coronavirus cases soar. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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