(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Afro-Brazilian faiths marking the end of the year, Epiphany festivities in Spain and more. 
Devotees carry a small boat filled with offerings into the sea on Vermelha beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. As the year winds down, Brazilian worshippers honor Yemanja, the African goddess of the sea, by offering flowers and launching large and small boats into the water in exchange for blessings for the coming year. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) 
Devotees in a trance take part in the “temple on the way to peace” Umbanda religious ceremony as part of a year-end tradition, at Urca beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) 
Indian Sikh warriors display martial arts skills in a religious procession ahead of the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. The birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru, is marked on Jan. 5. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) 
Pope Francis presides over the First Vespers and Te Deum, the rite of thanksgiving for the end of the year, in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) 
People strike a giant bell to celebrate the New Year at the Zojoji Buddhist temple, minutes after midnight, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) 
Indian Christians release balloons to celebrate the New Year after offering prayers at a church in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) 
Participants of the Cabalgata Los Reyes Magos (Cavalcade of the Three Kings) stand together ahead of the cavalcade, the day before Epiphany, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. The parade symbolizes the coming of the Magi to Bethlehem following the birth of Jesus, marked in Spain and many Latin American countries. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) 
People use their umbrellas to catch candies during the “Cabalgata de Reyes” Epiphany parade in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Christians around the world will mark Epiphany on Jan. 6 with a series of celebrations that go from parades and gift-giving for children to the blessing of water. The holiday is also called the Feast of Epiphany, Three Kings Day and Theophany. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) 
Devotees carry a replica of the Black Nazarene during the traditional blessing outside the Quiapo church in downtown Manila, Philippines, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. Tens of thousands of Roman Catholic devotees are expected to join a procession to celebrate the Feast Day of the Black Nazarene on Jan. 9. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) 
Devotees bathe a statue of San Benito de Palermo, or Saint Benedict, with rum during a procession honoring the oil city’s patron saint, in Cabimas, Venezuela, Dec. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) 
Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel plays on a giant drum that will be presented to the Ram Mandir, a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Ram, being built at the site of the demolished Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya, in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. The special drum will be handed to the temple on Jan. 15. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Archival Photos 
Cardinal Francis Spellman, Archbishop of New York, kisses a cross before hanging it in one of three new cottages he dedicated at the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Home for Neglected Children in the Bronx, New York, on May 26, 1965. In the background are, from left: Msgr. Michael F. Dwyer of New York, Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Msgr. Henry J. Vier, also of the New York archdiocese. The home was established in memory of Mrs. Kennedy’s eldest son killed in World War II. A photo of another son — the late President John F. Kennedy — is in the background. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
Jazz musician Dave Brubeck, center, and composer-conductor C. Alexander Peloquin, right, chat with the Rev. Ronald E. Brossard, left, as they prepare for their appearance at the 1980 regional convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Providence, Rhode Island. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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