Photos of the Week: Cycling in church; Rabbi Cohen’s funeral
By Jessi Dodge · August 26, 2022
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes cycling through a Dutch church, Rabbi Cohen's funeral and more.
Riders pass through the Grote Kerk, or Large Church, during the third stage of the Vuelta cycling race over 193.2 kilometers (120 miles) with start and finish in Breda, Netherlands, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses in front of his unveiled work 'La Commedia Umana' a huge hanging glass sculpture otherwise referred to as a 'chandelier' at the San Giorgio deconsecrated church in Venice, Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei lampoons the surveillance culture and social media with his first ever glass sculpture, made on the Venetian island of Murano, that stands as a warning to the world: "Memento Mori,'' or Latin for "Remember You Must Die." (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Ukrainian Lyubov weeps on her knees as she prays in front of portraits of fallen soldiers in a church in Lviv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Ultra-Orthodox men attend the funeral of Rabbi Shalom Cohen in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Cohen, a prominent Israeli rabbi and spiritual political leader has died at the age of 91. Cohen, who died on Monday in Jerusalem, was the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, one of two major ultra-Orthodox political parties in Israel. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Ultra-Orthodox men attend the funeral of Rabbi Shalom Cohen in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Cohen, a prominent Israeli rabbi and spiritual political leader has died at the age of 91. Cohen, who died on Monday in Jerusalem, was the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, one of two major ultra-Orthodox political parties in Israel. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Christian women hold candles during a procession to bring an icon of the Virgin Mary to the tomb where it is believed she is buried, along the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem, early Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. Every year before the Feast of the Assumption, the icon is brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the tomb of the Virgin Mary to honor her Assumption. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Volunteers from an Islamic charity group prepare food packets to be sent into flood-hit areas in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Pakistan's government in an overnight appeal sought relief assistance from the international community for flood-affected people in the impoverished Islamic nation, as the exceptionally heavy monsoon rain lashed various parts of the country, killing more people and raising the overall death toll from mid-June to 937. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
A general view of a 1,200-year-old rural estate, discovered during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority during expansion of the town of Rahat, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Located in Israel's south near the Bedouin town of Rahat, the building dates back to the early Islamic period in the 8th or 9th centuries. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
People hold balloons and a photo of Mohammed Eid, who was killed in an Israeli raid during the last escalation on Gaza, as Palestinian fighters from Islamic Jihad take part in an anti-Israel rally in Rafah, south of Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
People walk past idols of elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha displayed for sale ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
