Pictures of the Week: November 27 - December 3, 2009

For the Feast
The blood of a cow slaughtered for the celebrations of the first day of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha flows over a stone path in the Rhodope Mountain village of Ribnovo, Bulgaria. The annual festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, marks the end of the Hajj.