Photos of the Week: SCOTUS leak, Eid al-Fitr

By Kit Doyle · May 9, 2022

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the U.S. Supreme Court leak about abortion, the end of Ramadan and more. Muslims girls look on during Eid al-Fitr prayers in an outdoor area in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, May 2, 2022, at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) Muslim men offer Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Sunda Kelapa port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) Muslim girls attend Eid al-Fitr prayers at a park in the mixed Arab Jewish city of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, May 2, 2022. Muslims around the world celebrate the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Muslims offer an Eid al-Fitr prayer, making on the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan) This rendering provided by Lifang Vision Technology in May 2022 shows designs for the planned renovation of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, which on Oct. 27, 2018, was the scene of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. On Tuesday, May 3, 2022 organizers released the new design plans by architect Daniel Libeskind, whose previous works include Jewish museums, Holocaust memorials and the master plan for World Trade Center after 9/11. (Lifang Vision Technology via AP) Pope Francis arrives in a wheelchair to attend an audience with nuns and religious superiors in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Pope Francis suffers from strained ligaments in his right knee. Recently Francis revealed he had undergone some injections to relieve the pain, though it wasn't clear what the procedure entailed. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People work to lower a heavy, wooden cross from a hilltop to carry it to a church as part of celebrations marking the day of the Holy Cross, in the Santa Cruz Xochitpec neighborhood of Mexico City, late Monday, May 2, 2022. The importance of the fabric-draped cross is reflected in the area's very name, which means "Holy Cross of the Flowered Hill." (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) People pray outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, May 3, 2022, in Washington. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report released Monday. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Steve Corson blows a shofar in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Washington. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins People demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, May 3, 2022, in Washington. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins Anti-abortion activist David Lane stands outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization (JWHO), Mississippi's last remaining abortion clinic, called the "Pinkhouse", Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Jackson, Mississippi. Lane and other anti-abortion advocates, urge entering patients to not have the procedure. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Women protest holding hands as they surround the San Bernardo Convent in Salta, Argentina, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. They women gathered in support of the convent's cloistered nuns who have accused the Archbishop of Salta province Mario Antonio Cargnello and other church officials of gender-based psychological and physical violence. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A woman prays in the Cathedral in Salta, Argentina, Monday, May 2, 2022. Eighteen cloistered nuns from the San Bernardo Convent in Salta province have made a formal allegation against the Archbishop Mario Cargnello of Salta and two other members of the church for alleged physical and psychological gender violence. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Archival Photos An armed man hides his face as he runs from a burning car as another terrorist, left rear, throws a Molotov cocktail during street violence which erupted on March 30, 1980, in San Salvador, El Salvador, as the funeral Mass was in progress for Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in Metropolitan Cathedral. When the shooting began, Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco, the president of Catholic Bishops in the United States and other officials from England, Ireland, Canada, Belgium and Latin American countries were at the altar officiating at the rites for Archbishop Romero. Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, of Mexico, was nearing the end of his eulogy and had just said, "We cannot love by hating. We cannot defend life by killing," -- then the first explosion occurred. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society. Circuit Judge W. May Walker, left, welcomes Donald Brandeis, center, a 27-year-old man Walker sentenced to prison three years earlier, to First Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1955. Brandeis preached to an overflow audience. Looking on are W. D. Hopkins, right, the attorney who prosecuted Brandeis for car theft, and Dr. Harold G. Sanders, pastor of First Baptist Church, who befriended Brandeis while visiting him in prison. Brandeis, who plans to devote his life to preaching the gospel, was converted while in jail by a man serving sentences totaling 199 years. RNS archive photo by Mike Beaudoin. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.

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