(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Iowa caucusing, Orthodox Epiphany celebrations and more. 
A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. On the eve of Saint Anthony’s Day, dozens ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the “Luminarias,” a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) 
People bathe in water during a traditional Orthodox Epiphany celebration, as the temperature dropped to about -1 degrees Fahrenheit, near the Achairsky monastery outside the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. Across Russia, the devout and the daring are observing the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany by immersing themselves in frigid water through holes cut through the ice of lakes and rivers. Epiphany celebrates the revelation of Jesus Christ as the incarnation of God through his baptism in the River Jordan. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Sofiychuk) 
Faithful of Ethiopian Christians celebrating ‘Ketera’, the eve of Ethiopian Epiphany (Timket) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. Timket, Ethiopia’s Feast of the Epiphany, is one of the highest and holiest holidays in the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian calendar and is celebrated on January 19th every year. (AP Photo/Anteneh Girma) 
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, center, stands in a boat aduring abaptism ceremony in the waters of the Jordan River as part of the Orthodox Feast of the Epiphany at the Qasr al-Yahud baptismal site, near the West Bank town of Jericho, Israel, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The site is believed to be the place where John the Baptist baptized Jesus. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) 
A saffron flag with an image of Hindu deity Ram is seen in the foreground as supporters of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate the upcoming opening of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya, at a two-wheeler rally in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. The Ayodhya temple’s opening will fulfill a decadeslong Hindu nationalist pledge that is expected to resonate with voters during the upcoming national election. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) 
A person takes a selfie in front of a replica of the Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya, which is on display outside India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party office, in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) 
Anti-war activists march to the White House during a pro-Palestinian demonstration demanding a cease-fire in Gaza, at Freedom Plaza in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) 
Judges and parties at the opening of the hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Jan. 11, 2024. The United Nations’ top court opened hearings Thursday into South Africa’s allegation that Israel’s war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP Photo/Patrick Post) 
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, center, joins members of the audience in a prayer before Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a Northside Conservatives Club Meeting at The District in Ankeny, Iowa, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) 
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump takes the stage at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2024. Evangelical Christians, and most other demographics, pushed Trump to win the Iowa caucus. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Archival Photos 
Harper Sibley, second right, of the Church World Service, is presented with a portrait bust of himself by Joseph T. Reznak, right, a former refugee, on Oct. 27, 1955, in New York. Reznak, a former Czechoslovakian, carved the bust in appreciation of the help CWS gave him in coming to the United States. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
Five Arapahoe high school students from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming visit New York City for the first time in Oct. 1955. The boys, who had not previously left the reservation nor flown on a plane, were awarded the trip for their grades by the Marquette League for Catholic Indian Missions. (RNS archive photo by Irving Newman. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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