Christians around the world observe holy week - in pictures

Religious processions fill the streets again after Covid-19 pandemic

Pope Francis during a Chrism Mass at St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. EPA

Nuns take part in the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony on Easter Holy Week in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. REUTERS / Ammar Awad

Filipinos in the predominantly Catholic Philippines go on pilgrimages to holy sites and practise penitence in a centuries-old tradition of observing lent since the islands were colonised by Spain in the 1500s. Getty Images

A parishioner waits to take part in a Holy Thursday procession in Antigua, Guatemala. AP Photo

Penitents from the Ecce-Homo brotherhood take part in a procession in Ronda, Spain. Reuters

Members of the Penitential Brotherhood take part in a procession known as 'El Ensogado', in Sietamo, northern Spain. AP Photo

A devotee at the Basilica of St Teresa in Caracas, Venezuela. AP Photo

Candles are lit for the 'El Ensogado' procession in the northern Spanish village of Sietamo. AFP

Hundreds of Nicaraguan Catholics during a traditional Easter festival that has been celebrated for more than a century. EPA

A woman watches the procession of Jesus of Nazareth in Caracas, Venezuela. Reuters

The procession of the ribbons in the community of Cot de Cartago, in San Jose, Costa Rica. EPA

Two days before Good Friday in the community of Tzintzuntzan, a traditional performance takes place, in which men dressed as Roman soldiers, on horseback and with their faces covered with red hoods so as not to be identified for betraying Jesus, take to the streets in search of of the Nazarene to arrest him. EPA

Palm leaf crosses stacked outside the Santa Teresa Basilica in Caracas, Venezuela. Reuters

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