(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Orthodox and Coptic Christmas celebrations, Biden visiting Mother Emanuel AME and more. 
Georgians with their children carry national flags as they take part in a religious procession to mark Orthodox Christmas in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. While much of the world has Christmas in the rearview mirror by now, people in some Eastern Orthodox traditions celebrate the holy day on Jan. 7. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov) 
Coptic Christians pose for selfies in front of a Nativity display at the Church of Ava Bishoy and St. Karas the Anchorite in Cairo, Egypt, late Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. Coptic Christians observe Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the old Julian calendar. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) 
Ethiopian pilgrims pray during a mass service for Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas at the Bole Medhanemalem Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo) 
A Russian Orthodox Church priest makes the sign of the cross during an Orthodox Christmas service at the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, late Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) 
Bishop T.D. Jakes leads a revival on Jan. 5, 2024, at First Baptist Church of Glenarden International in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. (Photo by Lee Bonds, courtesy First Baptist Church of Glenarden) 
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, outside a morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair) 
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 8, 2024, where nine worshippers were killed in a mass shooting by a white supremacist in 2015. (AP Photo/Mic Smith) 
Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) 
Hasidic Jewish students observe as law enforcement establishes a perimeter around a breached wall in the synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by students, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in New York. A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a secret tunnel built beneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway. (Bruce Schaff via AP) 
Handcuffed controversial spiritual leader Ram Bahadur Bomjan is seen during a press conference at Central Investigation Bureau after he was arrested in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Nepal’s police arrested the spiritual leader — believed by many to be the reincarnation of Buddha — on charges he sexually assaulted a minor. He is also suspected of involvement in the disappearance of at least four of his followers from his camps, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) 
Men play bagpipes and drums as they wade into the cold Tundzha River to celebrate Epiphany, in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. The legend goes that the person who retrieves the wooden cross from the river will be freed from evil spirits and will be healthy throughout the year. Epiphany marks the end of the 12 days of Christmas, but not all Orthodox Christian churches celebrate it on the same day. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova) Archival Photos 
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York, National Director of the Society for the Propogation of the Faith, left, and Bishop James E. Kearney, of Rochester, listen to “Friar Cappy”, a Capuchin puppet, at the Mission Scene-a-rama in Rochester, New York, in Oct. 1955. (RNS archive photo by James Hannan. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
View of the crowd as Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race, addresses the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ, held in Chicago in July 1965. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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