Photos of the Week: Five years after George Floyd, vigil for Israeli Embassy staffers

By Kit Doyle · May 28, 2025
 (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder, a vigil for the two Israeli Embassy staffers and more. People attend a candlelight vigil at Say Their Names Cemetery on the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, prays with family members of George Floyd during a memorial service on the anniversary of Floyd's death on Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) People embrace while attending a march remembering George Floyd on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Quakers and their supporters walk along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington, on the final day of a march of more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II greets a Christian family during his visit to the Monastery of Mar Mina in Alexandria, Egypt, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) People gather to light candles in a makeshift memorial during a vigil May 22, 2025, outside the White House in Washington to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were killed as they left an event the night before at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Law enforcement work the scene after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.) Family and friends gather outside Congregation Beth Torah after a funeral for Sarah Milgrim, a staffer at the Israeli Embassy who was killed last week outside a Washington Jewish museum, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Overland Park, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Married Hindu women perform rituals around a banyan tree at Vat Savitri festival, where married women pray for the longevity of their husbands, at Prayagraj in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) People visit a cattle market set up for the upcoming Muslim Eid al-Adha or Feast of Sacrifice holiday, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad) Deborah, left, and Louis Prevost meet President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office of the White House, May 20, 2025. (Photo by Margo Martin/White House) Israeli police scuffle with young Israelis marching through Jerusalem's Old City marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) Archival Photos One year after the death of Babe Ruth, a memorial for the famous baseball player nears completion in the plant of A. Ottavino in Ozone Park, Long Island, N.Y., in 1949. One of the plant workers puts finishing touches on the head of the child-likeness of Babe Ruth as a boy. Looking on with admiration and devotion are two Ozone Park youngsters. The figure of Christ is 7 feet, 2 inches. Later it was placed at Ruth's grave in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, N.Y. Two panels, one bearing an inscription by Francis Cardinal Spellman, flank the monument. The inscription reads: “May the divine spirit that animated Babe Ruth to win the crucial game of life inspire the youth of America.” (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) The Rev. Charles Lawhon, center, has lunch with the crew of a ship as part of his ministry to seamen, in Jacksonille, Florida, in 1975. The Southern Baptist clergyman usually seeks out an English-speaking crew member to assist him in communicating with others. (RNS archive photo by Don Rutledge. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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