Photos of the Week

This week’s photo selection includes the sentencing of the attacker on two New Zealand mosques, unrest in several eastern European countries, 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 the sentencing of the attacker on two New Zealand mosques, unrest in several eastern European countries and more.

Mosque shooting survivors from left, Mustafa Boztas, Wassail Daragmih and Temel Atacocugu celebrate as they leave the Christchurch High Court after the sentencing hearing for Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Tarrant, a white supremacist who killed 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques in March 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)


A policeman consoles Fatima Tuyan, whose son Zekeriya Tuyan was shot at the Al Noor Mosque, as she prepares to enter the Christchurch High Court for the final day in the sentencing hearing for Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Tarrant, a white supremacist who killed 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques in March 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Mosque shooting survivor Taj Mohammad Kamran reacts with supporters outside the Christchurch High Court after the sentencing hearing for Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Tarrant, a white supremacist who killed 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques in March 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Twenty-nine-year-old Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant stands in the dock at the Christchurch High Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of terrorism in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. More than 60 survivors and family members will confront the New Zealand mosque gunman this week when he appears in court to be sentenced for his crimes in the worst atrocity in the nation’s modern history. (John Kirk-Anderson/Pool Photo via AP)

Orthodox nuns, wearing masks as a measure of prevention against the spread of the coronavirus, light candles for a procession to bring the icon of the Virgin Mary from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the tomb where she is believed to be buried, in Jerusalem’s Old City, early Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Orthodox nuns carry herbs and flowers after visiting the tomb where the Virgin Mary is believed to be buried, just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, at the end of a procession in which her icon was brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, early Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish students study religious texts in a yeshiva, or Jewish seminary, using protective plastic shields set up amid the coronavirus pandemic, that allows the customary practice of learning together with a partner, in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community has been especially hard hit by the country’s coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

An opposition supporter holds a cross during a church-led protest in Podgorica, Montenegro, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Montenegro is holding a parliamentary election this weekend, with the pro-Western government facing pressure over the new coronavirus outbreak and ongoing tensions in relations with Serbia and the Serbian Orthodox Church because of a religious property law. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)


People pray inside a Catholic church in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. Several dozen protesters found refuge in the Catholic church facing the square, and police blocked its doors to keep them inside while they moved to disperse the demonstration. Minsk Bishop Jury Kasabucki condemned the police action as a violation of freedom of conscience and religion and an insult to believers. Police in Belarus dispersed protesters who gathered on the capital’s central square, detaining dozens. (AP Photo/Dasha Sapranetskaya )

An idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha is lifted on a crane for immersion into the Hussain Sagar Lake on the seventh day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. The festival is a celebration of the birth of Ganesha, the Hindu god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Saint Teresa, wearing masks and face shields as precaution against the coronavirus, distribute food to poor and homeless people in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. Wednesday marked the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who spent 45-years serving the poor, the sick, the orphaned, and the dying. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Shiite Muslim males beat their chests during a Muharram procession in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Mrs. Mamie Doud Eisenhower, widow of the late President Dwight Eisenhower, holds the first copy of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Edition of “Good News for Modern Man,” the New Testament in modern English, after it was presented to her by the American Bible Society at her home in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 10, 1969. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society

President Lyndon Johnson embraces his 17-year-old daughter, Luci, after addressing the graduating class of National Cathedral School for Girls on June 1, 1965. The commencement exercises, which saw Luci and 60 other girls graduate, were held in the Washington National Cathedral. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society


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