Photos of the Week: Eid al-Adha; Haitian president funeral

By Kit Doyle · July 23, 2021

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes Muslims celebrating Eid al-Adha, funeral of slain Haitian president and more.

Israeli Arabs stand under a waterfall during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday at the Gan HaShlosha national park near the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. This most important Islamic holiday marks the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham to Christians and Jews) to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Muslims pray at a distance as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak during an Eid al-Adha prayer at Zona Madina mosque in Bogor, Indonesia, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Muslims across Indonesia marked a grim Eid al-Adha festival for a second year Tuesday as the country struggles to cope with a devastating new wave of coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Birds seen over deserted Jama Masjid on Eid al Adha following restrictions due to COVID-19 pandemic in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Muslims worldwide marked the Eid al-Adha holiday in recent days amid a global pandemic that has impacted nearly every aspect of this year's celebrations. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

A Muslim worshipper offers Eid al-Adha prayers in the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The major Muslim holiday, at the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, is observed around the world by believers and commemorates the prophet Abraham's pledge to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Muslims offer prayers during the first day of Eid al-Adha, outside the historic Haghia Sophia in the Sultan Ahmed district of Istanbul, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Thousands of Muslims attended dawn Eid al-Adha prayers in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Mucahid Yapici)

Muslim pilgrims pray atop the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, beside inscriptions which were left by pilgrims from previous years, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, July 19, 2021. The coronavirus has taken its toll on the hajj for a second year running. Normally drawing some 2.5 million Muslims from across the globe, the hajj pilgrimage is now almost unrecognizable in scale. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Socially distanced pilgrims pray in front of the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the final ritual of the hajj that pilgrims must perform before they return home, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, July 22, 2021. The coronavirus has taken its toll on the annual hajj for a second year running. Normally drawing some 2.5 million Muslims from around the globe, the hajj pilgrimage is now almost unrecognizable in scale. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

A man attends the funeral of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise, at Moise's family home in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Friday, July 23, 2021. Moise was assassinated at his home in Port-au-Prince on July 7. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Mourners hold electric candles during a memorial service for Haiti's assassinated President Jovenel Moïse at Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church on Thursday, July 22, 2021, in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami. Miami's Haitian Consul General hosted the service for members of the city's large Haitian community to pray for the troubled nation and pay their respects to the president, who was slain in a July 7 attack at his home which left his wife seriously wounded.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

People wash pews from a local church after they were damaged by flooding in Pepinster, Belgium, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Belgium held a day of mourning on Tuesday for the victims of the devastating flooding last week, when massive rains turned streets in eastern Europe into deadly torrents of water, mud and flotsam. (AP Photo/Valentin Bianchi)

An Israeli police officer stands guard as Jewish men visit the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, onTisha B'Av (the ninth of Av) — a day of fasting commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, July 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Reader Photos

An interdenominational Christian worship service is held Sunday, July 18, 2021, on the banks of Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park, in Washington state. Interdenominational services, such as this one, are arranged in most of the nation's parks by "A Christian Ministry in the National Parks.” Photo by John Schmidt

Archive Photos

Mrs. Doris Witmer, a Dallas housewife, displays the "Gospel message" gift wrapping paper she had designed with an assist from artist Art Farstad in 1971. Mrs. Witmer, wife of Dallas Theological Seminary professor John Witmer, got fed up with her fruitless search for Christmas wrapping paper with a “scriptural" theme and decided to do something about it. RNS archive photo by Andy Hanson. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.

More than 180 people participated in the 10th Anniversary Conference of Ordained Lutheran Women, April 13-16, 1980, in Rochester, Minnesota. The conference, which attracted 105 women clergy and 28 women seminary students, marked the 10th anniversary of the ordination of women by North American Lutherans. In all there are 187 ordained women in The American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church in America, and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. Among the participants were: (left to right) Rev. Elizabeth Bettenhausen, Associate Professor of Social Ethics and Theology, Boston University (LCA), Boston, MA., the Rev. Joan Martin, Staff Associate for Justice for Women, National Council of Churches, New York; and the Rev. Jean Bozeman, faculty and dean of students, Lutheran School of Theology (LCA), Chicago. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.