(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s gallery looks back at some of the best photographs from 2024. 
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) 
Faithful Ethiopian Christians celebrating ‘Ketera’, the eve of Ethiopian Epiphany (Timket) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. Timket, Ethiopia’s Feast of the Epiphany, is one of the highest and holiest holidays in the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian calendar and is celebrated on 19th January every year. (AP Photo/Anteneh Girma) 
The Ram Mandir, a temple dedicated to Hindu deity Lord Ram, was inaugurated in Ayodhya, India, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of an ancient mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in a grand event that is expected to galvanize Hindu voters months before a general election. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) 
Purepecha Indigenous women set down burning copal incense during a rest stop 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 was lit during a “New Fire” ceremony on Feb. 2. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) 
Kashmiri Muslim brides sit during a mass marriage of 30 couples in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Mass weddings in India are organized by social organizations primarily to help economically weaker families who cannot afford the high ceremony costs as well as the customary dowry and expensive gifts that are still prevalent in many communities. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) 
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, wearing a yellow ceremonial hat of the Gelug school, performs a ritual during a short sermon on the 15th day of the first Tibetan month at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) 
A man wears a Make America Pray Again hat before former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Religious Broadcasters convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Feb. 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV) 
Palestinians perform the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan near the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair) 
A woman dances as she participates in a procession to mark Falgun Mahotsav ahead of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File) 
People take part in a bun snatching competition during the annual Bun Festival on Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The annual festival has Taoist origins. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) 
People release lanterns during the celebration of Vesak, which marks the day of Buddha’s birth, death and enlightenment at the 9th century Borobudur Temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi) 
A horseman, wearing a decorative bull mask, and mounted on a prancing horse, attends the Feast of the Divine celebrations, backdropped by the Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, as part of the “Cavalhadas” festival, in Pirenopolis, Goias state, Brazil, Saturday, May 18, 2024. The tradition of the “Cavalhadas” or masked horsemen’s festival was brought to Brazil in the 1800s by a Portuguese priest to celebrate the “Holy Spirit” and to commemorate the medieval victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) 
A man, his face painted in the likeness of a spirit, participates in the He Neak Ta rituals in Phum Boeung village, northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) 
A Saudi man embroiders Islamic calligraphy, using either pure silver threads or silver threads plated with gold, during the final stages in the preparation of a drape, or Kiswa, that covers the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure at the heart the Grand Mosque, at the Kiswa factory in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) 
A Catholic boy walks towards 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) See the rest of the photos HERE. | 
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