Photos of the Week: Iran war, Jesse Jackson memorial
By Kit Doyle · March 4, 2026
(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes the war in Iran, a memorial service for Jesse Jackson and more.
A photo made available by Iranian state-run media of the mass funeral for the victims of a strike on an elementary school, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Minab, southern Iran. The school, adjacent to a naval base, was in session on Saturday when an airstrike hit it, killing 175 people, Iranian officials and rights groups said. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency)
Mourners take cover while air-raid sirens warn of incoming missiles launched by Iran toward Israel, during the funeral of Sarah Elimelech and her daughter Ronit who were killed in an Iranian missile attack, in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Shiite Muslims chant anti-U.S. slogans during a rally to condemn the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/M.A. Sheikh)
Government supporters gather in mourning after state TV officially announced the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Catholic Archbishop Bernard Hebda, from left, Cardinals Robert McElroy, Christophe Pierre and Joseph Tobin celebrate a Mass in solidarity with migrants at the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
James Hickman holds photo montages of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson before a public visitation at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Visitors hug during a public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Israelis read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the Jewish festival of Purim, at a bomb shelter synagogue in Hadera, Israel, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
People, some wearing costumes, celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim in an underground metro station used as a shelter against possible Iranian missile attacks, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Details of Mary, left, and Christ during the removal of surface deposits from Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment" fresco for its extraordinary maintenance in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (RNS photo/Claire Giangravé)
Archival Photos
Fire Department chaplain Dean Kaufman, white cross on jacket, watches firefighters battle a blaze in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1949. On hand at all times to give spiritual condolence or other aid, fire chaplains represent all faiths. Kaufman was assistant pastor of the Deer Park Baptist church. (RNS archive photo by Vaughan. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
The Rev. Claude Rainwater of the Second Baptist church leads unemployed mill workers in prayers for re-opening of textile mills in Douglasville, Georgia, in 1950. People everywhere responded to the plight of the jobless there, sending a flood of clothes and food gifts. A prayer movement was launched by Rainwater, who called on residents to "lay the problem before the Lord in daily prayer." (RNS archive photo by Marjory Smith. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
