(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes a Philippine mud festival, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the United States and more. 
A Catholic boy walks toward the church of Saint John the Baptist during the “Taong Putik,” or mud people festival, at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) 
Devout Catholics hold dried banana leaves, which they will use to cover themselves in, and walk toward the church of Saint John the Baptist during the mud festival at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) 
Devout Catholics gather at the church of Saint John the Baptist during the mud festival at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) 
Eldar Avital, 12, left, joins pro-Israel supporters to condemn a violent protest that occurred over the weekend outside Adas Torah Synagogue, as members of the Jewish community gather at Simon Wiesenthal Center, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) 
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro gives remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tree of Life complex in Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The new structure is replacing the Tree of Life synagogue where 11 worshipers were murdered in 2018 in the deadliest act of antisemitism in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke) 
Ukrainian women jump over the fire at a traditional Midsummer Night celebration near Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The age-old pagan festival is still celebrated in Ukraine amid the third year of the Russia-Ukraine war. Many people believe that jumping over the fire will cleanse them of evil spirits. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) 
A crowd of Buddhist clergy and devotees attend the cremation of the late monk Bhaddanta Munindarbhivamsa in Bago, Myanmar, Thursday, June 27, 2024. The senior monk was shot dead last week by soldiers who the military government said mistaked the vehicle in which he was traveling for a security threat. (AP Photo) 
Bishop Sean Rowe, center, the Presiding Bishop Elect of the Episcopal Church, is introduced during the denomination’s General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, Wednesay, June 26, 2024. (Photo by Randall Gornowich) 
The Episcopal Church General Convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday, June 23, 2024. (Photo by Randall Gornowich) 
Sister Mary Fatima Pham, second from right, kneels with fellow Catholics as they watch the Eucharist brought on board a boat on the Ohio River at the Steubenville Marina in Steubenville, Ohio, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will conclude at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in mid-July, the first held in more than 80 years. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
A riverboat carrying the Eucharist cruises down the Ohio River between Wellsburg, West Virginia, and Brilliant, Ohio, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The voyage is part of a two-month series of cross-country pilgrimages focused on the Eucharist, seeking to raise devotion around a sacrament in which Catholics believe they encounter Jesus’ real presence. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
Priests known as “curas villeros” celebrate a Mass marking the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, at the San Cayetano Catholic Church in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. “Curas villeros” work in shantytowns combating poverty and drug addiction. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Archival Photos 
This is what every pastor hopes for — a packed congregation — in 1946, possibly in Appleton, Wisconsin. Not only is every seat occupied, but both floors of this church are lined with standees. The desire of many people to attend regular worship services, as more and more of them seek spiritual guidance during the present state of world uncertainty, is indicated by a rising church attendance in many parts of the country. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
Three ministers are among these four leaders of the three-month boycott protesting segregation in city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1956. Twenty-four clergymen will be among those tried on March 19, 1956, for allegedly violating the state’s anti-boycott law. Left to right are: The Rev. L.R. Bennett; the Rev. H.H. Hubbard; the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; and E.D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP. The boycott was launched in December 1955 after a Black seamstress was fined $14 for refusing to move to the rear of a bus. Alabama state and local laws require that Black riders be segregated in public conveyance. Protestant church groups in various parts of the country have expressed sympathy with the boycott. (RNS archive photo by Mildred Smith. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
