(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious practice around the world. This week’s includes images from the wildfires in California; the supermoon in Naypyitaw, Myanmar; protests at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City; the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington; prayer at a football game in New Orleans – and more.
Flames from a wildfire advance down a hillside near the Springs of Life Church in Casitas Springs, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Wind-driven fires tore through California communities Tuesday for the second time in two months, leaving hundreds of homes feared lost and uprooting tens of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
The supermoon rises behind the Uppatasanti Pagoda seen from Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. The Dec. 3 full moon will be the first of three consecutive supermoons. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
An Israeli border police officer pushes away Palestinian protesters outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Clashes between hundreds of Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops erupted across the West Bank on Thursday while demonstrators in Gaza burned posters of President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Israeli and U.S. flags. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A Kashmiri Muslim girl watches men devotees offer prayers at the Hazratbal shrine on Eid-e-Milad, or the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the prophet. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
David Barrows, of Washington, wears a costume of the Bible and a sign saying “use me not for your bigotry” as people gather outside the Supreme Court which is hearing the ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission,’ Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Framed by a Christmas tree, Pope Francis waves to faithful during the Angelus noon prayer he delivered from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday Dec. 3, 2017. (Ap Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Abdirahman “OJ” Mohamed, of Seattle, holds a sign that reads “No Wall No Ban,” during a protest, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. The U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing President Donald Trump’s third travel ban to take effect has intensified the attention on a legal showdown Wednesday before three judges in Seattle who have been cool to the policy as they hear arguments in Hawaii’s challenge to the ban, which restricts travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries and has been reviled by critics as discriminatory. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays in front of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. On that day, President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and instructed the State Department to begin the multi-year process of moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty. Caption amended by RNS.)
A traditional Nativity scene depicts the birth of Jesus, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in front of St. Susanna’s Catholic Parish, in Dedham, Mass., but also includes signs listing U.S. mass shootings and the number of people killed at each. The Catholic church is using its Nativity scene to call attention to gun violence. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers players hold hands and pray in a prayer circle after an NFL football game in New Orleans, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. The Saints won 31-21. (AP Photo/Bill Feig)
