(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Buddha relics in Thailand, protesting a Hindu leader’s arrest in Bangladesh and more. 
Officers carry Buddha’s sacred tooth relics, on loan from China, to the Royal Garden in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) 
Buddhist monks attend the arrival of Buddha’s sacred tooth relics, on loan from China, at the Royal Garden in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) 
A group, largely from Jewish organizations, demonstrates in support of transgender rights outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Wed., Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) 
Thousands of rabbis pose for the annual group portrait outside Chabad-Lubavitch Worldwide Headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (Photo © Nehoray Edri/Kinus.com) 
Aymara women dressed as elves dance during the annual Christmas Parade in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) 
The National Christmas tree is lit during the lighting ceremony at Cathedral square in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) 
Mercedez-Benz CEO Ola Källenius, left, presents Pope Francis with a new, fully electric popemobile at the Vatican, Dec. 4, 2024. (RNS photo/Claire Giangravé) 
Newly appointed cardinal P. Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe, British theologian and spiritual father of the just-concluded synod, meets journalists in the Vatican press room ahead of his elevation, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) 
Shiite Muslims gather at the holy shrine of Imam Abbas in Karbala, Iraq, Thursday, Dec.5, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) 
Members of Hindu Aikya Vedika, or Hindu United Front, shout slogans condemning the recent arrest of prominent Hindu leader Krishna Das Prabhu and the alleged attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh during a protest in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) 
Members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) shout slogans as they are stopped by police during a protest outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) 
Devotees from Kinnaur in the upper Himalaya pray for the longevity of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, unseen, during a special prayer session in Dharamshala, India, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Archival Photos 
Among those responding to the music of the Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble at a three-day interfaith disarmament conference, “The Arms Race and Us,” held at New York’s Riverside Church on Nov. 15-17, 1981, were some of the featured speakers. From left, they are: The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, senior minister at the church; Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, of Gary, Ind., Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman of Los Angeles’ Leo Baeck Temple, co-chairman of the Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race and Roman Catholic bishop Leroy T. Matthiesen, head of the Amarillo, Texas Diocese and editor of the diocesan publication, West Texas Catholic. (RNS archive photo by Odette Lupis. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s political department, speaks during a Special U.N. Assembly in July 1980, where developing nations and Soviet bloc countries joined in overwhelmingly approving a resolution calling for the formation of a Palestinian state. In addition to the U.S. and Israel, only Australia, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Norway voted against the measure. There were 24 abstentions — including 9 European countries. Kaddoumi, acknowledging he had hoped for stronger Western European support, said the outcome “reflected the ever-increasing support of the international community to our just cause.” (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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