Photos of the Week: Australian stabbing; Middle East tensions

By Kit Doyle · April 19, 2024
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes a stabbing at an Australian church, rising tensions in the Middle East and more. Security officers stand guard outside Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney, Australia, Monday, April 15, 2024. Police in Australia say a man has been arrested after a bishop and churchgoers were stabbed in the church. There are no life-threatening injuries. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Father Daniel Kochou, right, gestures as he speaks with people, across the road from the Christ the Good Shepherd church in suburban Wakely in western Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during an Orthodox Assyrian church service, as horrified worshippers watched online and in person, was an act of terrorism. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Sudanese students, who mostly fled to Egypt after the civil war in Sudan, pray during the morning lineup at their school in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Sudan has been torn by civil war for a year now, which has killed at least 14,600 people across Sudan and created the world's largest displacement crisis, according to the UN. More than 8 million people have been driven from their homes, fleeing either to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) Israeli soldiers look at chairs reserved for hostages held in Gaza at a Passover Seder table on April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel. A quarter of all Kibbutz Nir Oz residents were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) A worshipper chants slogans as she holds an Iranian flag during an anti-Israeli gathering after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 19, 2024. An apparent Israeli drone attack on Iran saw troops fire air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan, an assault coming in retaliation for Tehran's drone-and-missile assault on Israel. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, gestures while leading a Mass in the Palestinian West Bank village of Beit Jala, Sunday, April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Azia Wiggins, an organizer with Working Together Mississippi, opens the Mississippi Medicaid Expansion Rally at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, with a song, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. A variety of interfaith clergy spoke in favor of "full" Medicaid expansion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Rabbi Levi Raskin, director of the JCrafts Center for Jewish Life and Tradition, playfully adds flat discs of dough to the oven to cook into matzah, as prepared by first graders from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital, during a "Model Matzah Factory" field trip to the center in Rockville, Md., Thursday, April 18, 2024. To be kosher for the Passover holiday, which begins Monday evening, the dough has to be prepared and cooked all within 18 minutes and not allowed to rise. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Ultra-Orthodox Jews organize food distributed to large families for free, in a special market ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday, in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) Pope Francis accepts a scarf as a gift at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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