(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the Lunar New Year, Yemanja commemorations in Uruguay and more. 
Members of Cambodia’s Chinese community, wearing masks and costumes of their ancient gods, celebrate Lunar New Year Friday morning, Feb. 9, 2024, in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ahead of Lunar New Year. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) 
Believers gather around a ritual bonfire during the Dugzhuba, a Buddhist pre-New Year ritual of purification, near the Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. During the Dugzhuba, ritual believers symbolically purify by eliminating all negative and harmful energies. This ritual takes place on the eve of the Buddhist New Year, called Sagaalgan by Russian Buddhists, and follows the lunar calendar. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) 
Worshippers pray as they burn their joss sticks at a temple to welcome in the Lunar New Year of the Dragon in Hong Kong, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) 
Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head cleric displays a relic at the Hazratbal shrine on the occasion of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) 
Catholic faithful pray at the Chapelle de l’Externat Saint Paul Church in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Ivory Coast’s seemingly miraculous progression to the Africa Cup of Nations semifinals has convinced locals that God is on their side. The host nation has survived several close shaves with elimination thanks to fortune with results in other games and scarcely believable comebacks. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) 
Shiite worshippers gather at the golden-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, who died at the end of the eighth century, during the annual commemoration of the saint’s death, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) 
Devotees wade into the waters of Ramirez beach as part of a ritual honoring the African sea goddess Yemanja, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Worshippers visit the beach on Yemanja’s feast day, bearing candles, flowers, honey and fruit to honor the deity. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico) 
A devotee takes part in a ritual honoring the African sea goddess Yemanja, along the shore of Ramirez beach, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Worshippers visit the beach on Yemanja’s feast day, bearing candles, flowers, honey and fruit to honor the deity. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico) Archival Photos 
Problems expected to be encountered by college students going to Mississippi this summer to conduct voter registration and education sessions for Blacks are outlined during an orientation session at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, in June 1964. The week-long training was held by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race, in cooperation with civil rights groups which were sponsoring the “freedom schools.” Here, the Rev. Bruce Hanson, center, the NCC official heading the orientation program, is flanked by Robert Moses, left, of New York, director of the Mississippi program for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and James Forman, right, of Atlanta, executive secretary of the SNCC. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
Christian history is made in the Holy Land as Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of the Eastern Orthodox Church, left, and Pope Paul VI meet in Jerusalem in January 1964. Their conversation at the residence of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Delegate to Jordan was the first between a Pope and a supreme leader of Orthodoxy in 525 years. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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