(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s gallery looks back at some of the best photographs from 2023. 
People queue to see the late Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI lying in state inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, where thousands went to pay their homage, Jan. 3, 2023. Pope Benedict was a German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) 
A member of Filhos de Gandhi, a Yoruba Afro-religious cultural group, participates in a ritual during the first cultural and religious activity of the year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) 
Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany, a colorful festival celebrated all over Ethiopia to commemorate the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist in the River Jordan, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday Jan. 19, 2023. The eve, starting on Jan 18, is known as Ketera, which means blocking the flow of water for the blessing of the celebrants. On the eve of Ketera, people escort their parish church tabot (replicas of the Ark of the Covenant) to Timkete-Bahir (a pool, river or artificial reservoir). (AP Photo) 
The Venerable Guo Yuan, in orange, leads a Buddhist prayer ceremony on Jan. 31, 2023, outside Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California, the site of the mass shooting that left 11 people dead. (RNS photo/Alejandra Molina) 
Hindu devotees join a procession as they walk inside the Sri Subramaniyar temple during Thaipusam celebrations at Batu Caves, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. Thaipusam, which is celebrated in honor of Hindu god Lord Murugan, is an annual procession by Hindu devotees seeking blessings, fulfilling vows and offering thanks.(AP Photo/Vincent Thian) 
People mourn after they bury their loved ones in Adiyaman, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey, pulling several people, some almost unscathed, from the rubble, days after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 20,000. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) 
A “momotxorro” participant takes part in the carnival wearing typical carnival dress, in Alsasua, northern Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. During the carnival Momotxorros, characters who seem to have been resurrected from a prehistoric ritual come out onto the streets wearing horns and hiding their faces under headscarves, and dressed in a white sheet stained with blood. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) 
Attendees come forward to pray together during worship at Hughes Auditorium on the campus of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. Both floors were completely full of attendees for the service. A student-led revival lasted for weeks at the university. (Photo by Fiona Morgan) 
A woman searches for the grave of her husband, a Ukrainian serviceman killed in the Bakhmut area, in the Alley of Glory part of the cemetery in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) 
Men from Barsana village smeared with colors play Holi at Nandagram temple in Nandgoan village, 70 miles south of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Women from Nandgaon, the birthplace of Hindu God Krishna, beat the men from Barsana, the legendary birthplace of Radha, the consort of Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to their efforts to put color on them. The same act is then replicated in Barsana between the women of that village and the men of Nandgaon as they observe the Lathmar Holi festival, a celebration of love and friendship. (AP Photo/Deepanshu Aggarwal)
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