Photos featured this week include the Olympic rings displayed on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower, Pope Francis with Rome’s Mayor Roberto Gualtieri and more.
Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova, Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden and Britain’s Prince William applaud June 6, 2024, during the international ceremony in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer in France’s Normandy region marking the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings at Omaha Beach and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany occupation. (OSV News photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)
Pope Francis and Rome’s Mayor Roberto Gualtieri overlook the Roman Forum from the Campidoglio balcony during the pope’s visit to Rome’s City Hall June 10, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope Francis greets participants in an international meeting of parish and diocesan choirs in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican June 8, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Almog Meir Jan, 22, a hostage rescued by Israeli forces June 8, 2024, reacts after being returned to Ramat Gan, Israel. The Israeli military rescued Jan and three other hostages from the central Gaza Strip in a heavy air and ground assault. (OSV News photo/Marko Djurica, Reuters)
People pray during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Mass June 9, 2024, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The Mass marked the closing event of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s Seton Route stop in the nation’s capital. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, speaks at a news conference at the Vatican June 11, 2024, to present an international workshop celebrating the legacy of Father Georges Lemaître, the Belgian priest who formulated the Big Bang model for the expansion of the universe. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)
A member of a delegation from the British Army’s Royal Irish Regiment and 38 (Irish) Brigade plays a bagpipe before Pope Francis arrives in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience at the Vatican June 12, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
The Olympic rings are displayed on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris June 9, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (OSV News photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)
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