(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s gallery includes commemorations for Sikh Guru Gobind Singh, an attack during Hanukkah in New York, and more.
Indian Sikh devotees gather to pay obeisance at a Sikh gurdwara as they mark the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, in Jammu, India, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth Sikh guru. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Indian Sikh devotees gather to pay obeisance at a Sikh gurdwara as they mark the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, in Jammu, India, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth Sikh guru. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
A man pushes a small boat carrying flowers and a statue of Yemanja, a deity from the African Yoruba religion, during a ceremony in honor of the goddess of the sea, which is part of the New Year’s celebrations, off Praia Vermelha beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. As the year winds down, Brazilian worshippers of Yemanja celebrate the deity and ask for blessings for the coming year. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Faith leaders pray with President Donald Trump during a rally for evangelical supporters at the King Jesus International Ministry church, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Orthodox Jews, including Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, left, celebrate the arrival of a new Torah near the rabbi’s residence in Monsey, New York. A day earlier, a knife-wielding man stormed into the home and stabbed multiple people as they celebrated Hanukkah in the upstate New York community. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Members of the Guardian Angels, left, a volunteer safety patrol organization, stand in front of the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Brooklyn, New York. The Guardian Angels and police have increased patrols in the Crown Heights neighborhood following an anti-Semitic attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Neighbors gather to show their support of the community near a rabbi’s residence in Monsey, New York, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing Saturday night during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Costumed youth watch Pope Francis arrive to preside over a Mass for the solemnity of St. Mary at the beginning of the new year, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
