内容摘要：This gallery shows the year in images, as seen through the lenses of AP photojournalists.

This gallery shows the year in images, as seen through the lenses of AP photojournalists.

A different kind of music rings out in a Spanish village as Josep-Maria Grosset, a student at a bell ringer schoolof a 12th-century church. The school, seeking to revive the manual ringing of church bells, has graduated its first class of 18 students.

And our photographers were mindful of a hymn writer’s memorable phrase, “All creatures great and small.”Students pray during recess in the mosque at Ibn Khaldoun, a private Muslim school, in Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)Students pray during recess in the mosque at Ibn Khaldoun, a private Muslim school, in Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

At monasteries half-way round the world from each other, a Buddhist monk in Bhutan and an Orthodox Christiandisplay their love of dogs. Not to be outdone, Presbyterian pastor Lee Scott pets one of the

Wearing a necklace with her name in Hebrew, Charlotte Gleicher, 7, a first grader at Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, is helped by her teacher, Dafna Kiverstein, to roll out dough for matzah during a “Matzah Factory” field trip at the JCrafts Center for Jewish Life and Tradition in Rockville, Md., Thursday, April 18, 2024, ahead of the Passover holiday. To be kosher for Passover, which begins next Monday evening, the dough has to be prepared and cooked all within 18 minutes and not allowed to rise. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Wearing a necklace with her name in Hebrew, Charlotte Gleicher, 7, a first grader at Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, is helped by her teacher, Dafna Kiverstein, to roll out dough for matzah during a “Matzah Factory” field trip at the JCrafts Center for Jewish Life and Tradition in Rockville, Md., Thursday, April 18, 2024, ahead of the Passover holiday. To be kosher for Passover, which begins next Monday evening, the dough has to be prepared and cooked all within 18 minutes and not allowed to rise. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, Juneau, Alaska (1,595 square feet)

Agricultural Marketing Service, Los Angeles, Calif. (1,527 square feet)United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Madison, Wis. (2,871 square feet)

Railroad Retirement Board, Mesa, Ariz. (1,946 square feet)Farm Service Agency - County, Monticello, Utah (4,233 square feet)