Photos of the Week: Christmas and Hanukkah preparations; large trial verdicts

By Kit Doyle · November 26, 2021
 (RNS) - Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes preparations for Christmas and Hanukkah, major trial verdicts in the United States and more. Rabbi Segal Shmoel, from left, and Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal inspect a giant Hanukkah Menorah, set up by the Jewish Chabad Educational Center, ahead of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday, at the Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) A nun takes photos as a crane lifts a 113-year-old, 28-meter-tall spruce in St. Peter's Square, to serve as a Christmas tree, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. A gift from the city of Andalo in Trentino Alto Adige-South Tyrol region, northeastern Italy, the 8-ton present will be lit up on Dec. 10. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Tourists visit Luxor Temple ​on Friday, Nov. 26, 2021, the day after a reopening ceremony of the Avenue of Sphinxes, commonly known as El Kebbash Road, in Luxor, Egypt. The ceremony was meant to highlight the country's archaeological treasures as Egypt struggles to revive its tourism industry, battered by years of political turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed) Rohingya refugees arrive at the Chittagong boat club to board naval vessels that will take them to Bhasan Char island, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2012. Thousands have been relocated on the island in the Bay of Bengal from crammed camps near the Myanmar border. (AP Photo) A man lowers into a grave a tiny white casket of an unborn Iraqi boy, in Bohoniki, Poland, on Tuesday Nov. 23, 2021. The child is the latest life claimed as thousands of migrants from the Middle East have sought to enter the European Union but found their path cut off by a military build-up and fast approaching winter in the forests of Poland and Belarus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) People light wax lamps to make a formation of a temple as part of a ground breaking ceremony for the world's largest Hindu temple in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Construction work on the world's largest temple dedicated to Hindu Goddess Umiya Ma begins in Ahmedabad on Monday. The temple will be constructed on land measuring 60 acres with a budget of over 10 billion rupees ($134 million). (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) People carry out a “die-in” in Portland, Oregon, on Nov. 21, 2021, to protest the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Some protesters chanted “Rittenhouse is guilty.” Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges after testifying he acted in self-defense in the deadly Kenosha, Wisconsin, shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky) Michael Hulett, of Brunswick, Georgia, plays "Let There Be Peace On Earth" on his saxophone during a prayer vigil outside the Glynn County Courthouse where a jury started deliberating the trial of Greg McMichael; his son, Travis McMichael; and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, on Nov. 23, 2021, in Brunswick, Georgia. All three defendants were found guilty Nov. 24 by the jury after 10 hours of deliberation. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) Colombian nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, who was held captive for nearly five years by the Mali-based Islamic insurgency, places her hands on her face during a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The nun, who was seized near the border with Burkina Faso and held since Feb. 7, 2017, was released on Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Members of Aide a l'Eglise en Detresse (Aid to the Church in Distress) hold signs with silhouettes during a procession with Catholic clergy in support of persecuted Christians around the world at Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) A child takes part in a candle light vigil in downtown Waukesha, Wisconsin, Monday, Nov. 22, 2021, after an SUV plowed into a Sunday Christmas parade killing five people and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) Waukesha mayor Shawn Reilly, right gets a hug after speaking at the Rotunda in Waukesha, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, during a gathering of the Jewish community of Waukesha and a lighting of a 12- foot Menorah. On Sunday an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade killing five people and injuring many more. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
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