Photos of the Week: Hanukkah, Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day

By Kit Doyle · December 17, 2025

(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes solemn and celebratory Hanukkah observances, Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day and more. Rabbi Motti Feldman speaks during a menorah lighting ceremony at a floral memorial for victims of Sunday's shooting, at the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Jewish people dance beneath a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah in Trafalgar Square, London, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) People pass by a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah in Independence Square, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Chabad of Edinburgh marks the first night of Hanukkah on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in St. Andrew Square in Scotland's capital. (RNS photo/Yonat Shimron) A woman places an Israeli flag over flowers outside Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Pilgrims arrive at Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, the night before her feast day. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel) Pilgrims ride bicycles toward Mexico City for celebrations honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe, in San Francisco Zentlalpan, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) A woman cries as she looks up at the Virgin of Guadalupe image hanging on the wall at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, on her feast day, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel) Christians ride camels in a peace rally ahead of Christmas in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) A 27-meter fir tree from the Ultimo valley in South Tyrol, Italy, is lit up as Christmas tree, together with a crib, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Pope Leo XIV, front left, prays in front of a nativity scene set in the Paul VI Hall during an audience with donors of the Christmas tree and of the nativity scenes, at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Devotees take part in the annual Saint Lazarus procession, a pilgrimage that blends Catholic and Afro-Cuban Santería traditions, in El Rincón, on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jorge Luis Banos) Archival Photos Dr. Sidney M. Berkowitz, rabbi of Rodef Sholom Temple in Youngstown, Ohio, lights menorah candles as his family observes Hanukkah in December 1953. His wife, Pauline, and sons, Larry, 4 (left), and Roger, 9, watch and wait to exchange gifts during the Festival of Lights. (RNS archive photo by Glenn Hartman. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) Children participate in a Christmas play in 1974 in Malasiqui, Philippines. For Filipinos, the Christmas season officially begins on Dec. 16, with the first of the nine-day novena of dawn Masses, the "Misa de Gallo," and doesn't end until the Feast of the Epiphany, Jan. 6. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)

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