Photos of the Week: May 16, 2022

Men carry a statue of Mary May 13, 2022, at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. Thousands of pilgrims arrived at the shrine to attend the 105th anniversary of the first apparition of Mary to three shepherd children. (CNS photo/Pedro Nunes, Reuters)
Israeli riot police scuffle with mourners carrying the casket of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a procession in Jerusalem’s Old City May 13, 2022. The prominent Palestinian-American journalist was killed in clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen in Jenin, West Bank, May 11. (CNS photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters)
Smoke from wildfire rises above a residential area in Laguna Niguel, Calif., May 12, 2022. (CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters)
Pope Francis looks at information given to him by Kateryna Prokopenko, wife of Ukraineís Azov Regiment commander Denys Prokopenko, and Yulya Fedosiuk, wife of Azov soldier Arseniy Fedosiuk, at the end of his weekly general audience May 11, 2022, in St. Peter’s Square. The women asked the pope’s help in securing safe passage for their husbands and some 2,000 soldiers inside the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
A woman prays as she shelters in the basement of a school in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 10, 2022, during shelling by Russian troops. (CNS photo/Ricardo Moraes, Reuters)
The house owned by Sri Lankan politician Sanath Nishantha in Arachchikattuwa is seen May 9, 2022, after anti-government demonstrators set it on fire. More than 50 houses of politicians were burned overnight that day, reports say. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith appealed for peace as clashes broke out in the island nation after the prime minister quit amid a worsening economic crisis. (CNS photo/Reuters)

Author: Catholic News Service

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