(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Hanukkah, commemorations for the New Year and more. 
Israeli soldiers light a candle on the seventh night of Hanukkah before being deployed to the Gaza Strip, near the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) 
A menorah is displayed on the seventh night of Hanukkah in Santa Monica, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer) 
Orthodox Jewish yeshiva students dance, right, after lighting candles to mark the holiday of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) 
Christians release balloons to celebrate the New Year after offering prayers at a church in Ahmedabad, India, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) 
Devotees take part in a ceremony honoring Yemanja, a sea goddess in the Yoruba religion, on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. As the year winds down, Brazilian worshippers celebrate Yemanja by offering flowers and launching boats into the ocean, hoping for blessings for the coming year. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) 
Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas opens the holy door of the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, one of the events starting the Jubilee of 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) 
Bishop T.D. Jakes speaks during a New Year’s Eve service at The Potter’s House, his nondenominational megachurch, Dec. 31, 2024, in Dallas. (Video screen grab) 
Pope Francis is joined by children dressed in costumes inspired by nativity characters during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) 
Prayer begins a ceremony marking the anniversary of the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard expeditionary Quds Force, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in 2020,. Amid the crowd hang portraits of left to right, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Nasrallah’s presumed successor, Hashem Safieddine, at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) 
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians dance and sing during celebrations marking St. Gabriel’s annual feast, in the West Bank city of Jericho, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) 
Buddhists monks pray for the victims of a Jeju Air airplane that skidded off a runway and burst into flames, at a memorial altar at Muan Sports Park in Muan, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) Archival Photos 
New York delegates to a National Women’s Conference celebrate following the passage of a resolution supporting the Equal Rights Amendment in 1977. The following year, Roman Catholic Bishop Michael F. McAuliffe of Jefferson City, Mo., an ERA proponent, told the anti-ERA Catholic Daughters of America, “We can accept the principle of equality, but we don’t always agree as to the manner in which it should be applied,” he said. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
After her ordination as an Episcopal priest on Dec. 5, 1981, the Rev. Elizabeth J. Canham is applauded by fellow clergy at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Newark, N.J. Canham sought ordination in the United States because the Church of England in her native United Kingdom did not accept women as priests. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) | 
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