RNS Photos of the Week: Escalating Mideast tensions; anti-war demonstrations

(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes escalating Mideast tensions around Israel, anti-war demonstrations in the United States and more.   Mourners from the Druze community surround the bodies of some of the 12 children and teens killed in a rocket strike at a soccer field, in the village of Majdal Shams at the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)   Iranians follow a truck, center, carrying the coffins of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, who were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel, on Wednesday, during their funeral ceremony at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)   Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road to protest against military recruitment, in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)   This scene during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, Friday, July 26, 2024, was meant to represent Greek gods during a banquet, according to organizers. The moment received strong criticism due to perceived similarities with Last Supper paintings. (Video screen grab)   The Apache Christ painting hangs behind the altar of St. Joseph Apache Mission church in Mescalero, New Mexico, Saturday, July 13, 2024. The painting, an icon that depicts Christ as a Mescalero medicine man, was the forefront of a tension-filled episode between the community and the local Diocese when it was removed by the church’s then priest when the region was reeling from wildfires. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)   Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Believers’ Summit 2024 at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach, Fla., July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)   Tents set up by migrants, many from Venezuela, cover the plaza outside the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)   Kayaking activists, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, protest the Christians United for Israel summit from the Potomac River, July 29, 2024, in National Harbor, Md. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)   An interfaith group of clergy and other pro-Palestinian protesters blocks buses filled with attendees for the Christians United for Israel summit in National Harbor, Maryland, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)   Mennonite participants in the “All God’s Children March for a Ceasefire” march cross the Potomac River, Sunday, July 28, 2024, entering Washington, D.C., from Virginia. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)   Tourists visit the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. The centuries-old Angkor temple complex that sprawls across some 155 square miles, containing the ruins of capitals of various Cambodian empires from the 9th to the 15th century, is the country’s most popular tourist attraction. In the first half of this year the site attracted more than half a million international tourists. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)   Archival Photos   People visit a Bible display at a library during the Tokyo Olympics in Oct. 1964, in Tokyo, Japan. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)   Near a cross on the grounds of the Taize monastic community, young people exchange ideas during the World Council of Youth in summer 1974, in Taize, France. The three-day gathering saw 40,000 youth from 120 countries come together for fellowship and prayer. Rather than resolutions, plenary sessions, or committee meetings, the major events were the daily worship services — moments of prayer, praise and testimony by youth as to how to live the Gospel in the face of exploitation, oppression, poverty and isolation. The only thing close to a formal pronouncement to come out of the gathering was a “Letter to the People of God” issued on behalf of the young people. In it, the church was called to give up the means of power, the compromises with political and financial power, to surrender its privileges and stop amassing wealth in order to become a place of communion and friendship for the whole of humanity. (RNS archive photo by Wendy Goldsworthy. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)   Talk to Us We want your feedback on the RNS Photos of the Week — what you think we're doing right and what we should be doing differently. Send us an email at Comments@ReligionNews.com Subscribe to other RNS Newsletters. Forward this email to a friend. View the archive of past newsletters. RNS is free to read, but it's not free to produce. If you value our reporting, please consider making a donation today. If you prefer to mail a donation, please address to: Religion News Foundation, PO Box 1808, Columbia, MO 65205. Yes, I support the work you're doing! Forward this email to a friend