(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes Candlemas in Mexico, Haitian TPS uncertainty and more.
Cambodian Buddhist monks hold candle lights to float in a pond, marking Meak Bochea Day, in Wat Phneat Sampily in a suburb of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, as held in veneration of Buddha. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Adolfo Vertiz repairs a figurine of Baby Jesus ahead of Dia de la Candelaria, or Candlemas, in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A man takes communion carrying a Baby Jesus figurine during a Mass marking Candlemas Day at the Xochimilco Catholic Church in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Modify Thrift owner Kadjahtou Balde, center, interacts with Tyllah Gorham, 25, at the Muslim-owned modest thrift shop in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in New York. (RNS photo/Ulaa Kuziez)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Sanz Hasidic dynasty gather around a long table with fruit to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, the "New Year of the Trees," in Netanya, Israel, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Congregants worship at the First Haitian Evangelical Church of Springfield, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
Faith leaders from across the United States gather in support for Haitian migrants fearing the end of their Temporary Protected Status in the U.S., at an event held at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Springfield, Ohio, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. (RNS photo/Jana Riess)
A Syrian Shiite woman walks next of portraits of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, foreground, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Kassem, center, and the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, background, at the Imam Ali Housing Compound, where hundreds of mostly Lebanese and Syrian Shiite Muslims displaced from Syria reside, in Hermel, northeast Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Clergy and others demonstrate against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jan. 28, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (Photo by Sam Woodward)
Archival Photos
At a moving dockside prayer service in Toledo, Ohio, more than 250 people gathered on a chilly day to dedicate 2,100 metric tons of corn bound for starving people in Somalia and Ethiopia in 1981. The corn was part of a $1.4 million shipment of 10,350 metric tons of various foods provided by the Mennonite Central Committee. (RNS archive photo by Bruce Janzer. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Members of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights march down New York's Fifth Avenue during a demonstration on Aug. 28, 1980. Hundreds of men and women joined a rally which followed, marking the 60th anniversary of women's right to vote. (RNS archive photo by Odette Lupis. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
