(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Iranian Zoroastrians, Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish women and more.
Zoroastrian worshipers carry torches to set fire to a pile of wood in a ceremony celebrating their ancient mid-winter Sadeh festival on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Hundreds of Zoroastrian minorities gathered after sunset to mark their ancient feast commemmorating the creation of fire, dating back to Iran’s pre-Islamic past. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) 
A Zoroastrian priest approaches a giant bonfire in a ceremony celebrating Zoroastrians ancient mid-winter Sadeh festival on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Hundreds of Zoroastrian minorities gathered after sunset to mark their ancient feast commemorating the creation of fire, dating back to Iran’s pre-Islamic past. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) 
Theresa Kilmurray, of the Brigidine Congregational Leadership, center, with Brigidine sister, Louise Cleary, right, carries a revered relic of St. Brigid, draped in red, home to Kildare, Ireland, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. Accompanying them are three girls portraying the medieval Irish knights who, tradition says, brought a relic of St. Brigid to a church in Portugal. Pilgrims and locals welcomed the relic back to Brigid’s hometown, about a millennium after her body had been moved from Kildare to a secret grave for safety from Viking attacks. The ceremony is part of the 1,500th anniversary commemoration of the death of the woman some call “the matron saint of Ireland.” (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) 
Tourists visit the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz – Birkenau on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) 
People offer food to Buddhist monks outside Sensoukharam temple in Luang Prabang, Laos, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. Luang Prabang was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site nearly 30 years ago, but a multibillion-dollar dam project is raising questions that could deprive the city of its coveted status and prompting broader concerns the Mekong River could be ruined by multiple dams that are being planned. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) 
Purepecha Indigenous women carrying burning copal incense take a rest as they walk from Erongaricuaro, where residents kept a flame alive for one year, to Ocumicho in Michoacan state, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. To mark the new year, based on an ancient lunar calendar, a new flame will be lit during a “New Fire” ceremony on Feb. 2. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) 
Purepecha Indigenous people attent the “New Fire” ceremony to mark the start of the new year, based on an ancient lunar calendar, in Ocumicho, Michoacan state, Mexico, just before midnight, late Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) 
Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch women pray at the resting place of the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson at Montefiore Cemetery, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Queens, New York. Thousands of women leaders from more than 100 countries gather in nearby Brooklyn for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) 
Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch women and men pray in separate spaces near the resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, at the Montefiore Cemetery, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Queens, New York. Thousands of women leaders from more than 100 countries gather in New York for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) 
People hold candles during a Mass for religious orders said by Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) 
President Joe Biden speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast with congressional leaders, in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) 
Turkish police officers guard a cordoned off area outside Santa Maria Catholic Church in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. Two masked assailants attacked the church in Istanbul during Sunday services, killing one person, Turkish officials said. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) Archival Photos 
Representatives of church groups demonstrate for passage of the Civil Rights Bill in Congress at an “interreligious witness for civil rights” in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall Square on May 24, 1964. The meeting was attended by several hundred persons from about 25 cooperating religious groups. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
Dr. Joseph H. Jackson of Chicago, president of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., is welcomed to Detroit for the denomination’s annual meeting in 1964. With him is Dr. Mary O. Ross, president of the denominational women’s auxiliary. With about 5,500,000 members, the convention was the largest Black church group in the United States at the time. (RNS archive photo by H. Ward. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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