TOPSHOT - -- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2018 -- A Franciscan friar plays basketball with Palestinian children from the Terra Sancta school during a sport session in the Old City of Jerusalem, on March 1, 2018. - Dispatched to the city 800 years ago by the Catholic order's founder, Saint Francis of Assisi, the Franciscans have for centuries ensured a permanent Christian presence in the Holy Land. Pilgrims know them primarily as the Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre, protecting the site where Jesus is believed to have been crucified and buried. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP)