Photos of the Week: Diego Maradona; Kashmiri Muslims

This week’s selection includes the death of former Argentine soccer superstar Diego Maradona, Kashmiri Muslims commemorating a Sufi saint and more.

A man, wearing a jersey honoring Diego Maradona and a rosary, waits in a line outside the presidential palace to pay his last respects, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The Argentine soccer great, who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title, died from a heart attack at his home Wednesday, at the age of 60. (AP Photo/Maria Paula Avila)

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s selection includes the death of former Argentine soccer superstar Diego Maradona, Kashmiri Muslims commemorating a Sufi saint and more.

A man, wearing a jersey honoring Diego Maradona and a rosary, waits outside the presidential palace to pay his last respects, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The Argentine soccer great, who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title, died from a heart attack at his home Wednesday, at the age of 60. (AP Photo/Maria Paula Avila)

Mourners pay their respects at a memorial outside the San Paolo stadium commemorating soccer legend Diego Maradona, in Naples, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)


A man holds a candle as people gather to honor soccer legend Diego Maradona, in “Quartieri Spagnoli” neighborhood, in Naples, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Maradona played for Naples from 1984 to 1991. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vivian Zayas holds onto the walker once belonging to her recently deceased mother Ana Martinez while her family prays before Thanksgiving dinner, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020, in Deer Park, New York. Ana Martinez died from COVID-19 complications at 78 on April 1 while recovering at a nursing home from a knee replacement. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Kashmiri Muslim devotees watch from windows as a cleric displays a relic of Sufi saint Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani at his shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Hundreds of devotees thronged the shrine Friday to mark the saint’s Urs, or yearly commemoration. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as a cleric displays a relic of Sufi saint Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani at his shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Hundreds of devotees thronged the shrine Friday to mark the saint’s Urs, or yearly commemoration. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Men walk past the Yetev Lev temple Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Compliance with coronavirus restrictions in some of New York’s Orthodox Jewish communities has been an issue since the pandemic started last spring. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Mourners attend the funeral prayer of Khadim Hussein Rizvi, an Islamist scholar and leader of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. Tens of thousands of mourners on Saturday thronged the funeral of the radical cleric whose Islamist party has defended Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law that calls for the death penalty for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Waleed Ahmed)


Students wearing face masks sit at a distance during a trial run of a class with COVID-19 protocol at Nurul Amal Islamic school in Tangerang, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

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