Photos of the Week: Ramadan winds down, synagogue attack
By Kit Doyle · March 17, 2026
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes the final week of Ramadan, an attack on a Michigan synagogue and more.
Shiite Muslims attend the annual Al-Quds Day rally to show the importance of Jerusalem to Muslims and in solidarity with Palestinian and Iranian people in Kano, Nigeria, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Sani Maikatanga )
Muslim worshippers attend prayers during the holy month of Ramadan outside the destroyed Al-Farouq Mosque in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Muslims pray during the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble after a U.S.-Israeli strike in southern Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Sajjad Safari)
Leqaa Kordia, left, moves to embrace friends, family and supporters after being released from the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A visitor tries out a coffin at Death Fest in Nonthaburi, Thailand, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Kittinun Rodsupan)
South Korean Buddhist monks and members of civic groups bow and prostrate themselves on the road as they march towards the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, to protest against President Donald Trump asking multiple countries to send warships to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Law enforcement escort families with children away from the Temple Israel synagogue Thursday, March 12, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Police tape hangs outside the Temple Israel synagogue Friday, March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Law enforcement respond to a call at Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Corey Williams)
Archival Photos
Captain Larry Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. Tony Horstman in Miami in April 1957, before leaving to preach among the Caribbean islands and distribute Gospel literature. After their return to the U.S., they planned to go back for intensive missionary work. (RNS archive photo by Steve Wever. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Three youth say grace before lunch in Hamilton, N.Y., in 1951. Twenty-one Black boys and girls from southern states attended New York state's first summer school for children of migrants. The school was conducted by a migrant committee sponsored jointly by the New York State and National Councils and Churches and lasted seven weeks. An experimental project under the migrant program of the National Council's Home Missions Division, the school had the interest and cooperation of state educational authorities. One of the purposes of the school was to reduce the number of boys and girls working in the fields. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
