Photos: Holy Week, Easter around the world

Photos: Holy Week, Easter around the world

Pope Francis delivers his Easter message “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 17, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis baptizes a new member of the church during the Easter Vigil celebrated by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 16, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

A young family takes their turn venerating the cross during the Good Friday service April 15 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in St. Cloud. (Photo courtesy of St. Mary’s Cathedral)

Ukrainian nurse Iryna and Russian nursing student Albina pass the cross to a family after completing the 13th station during the Way of the Cross presided at by Pope Francis outside the Colosseum in Rome April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis kisses the crucifix during the Good Friday Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

A barefoot penitent carrying a large wooden cross takes part in a Good Friday procession in Mexico City April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Henry Romero, Reuters)

Christians take part in the Good Friday procession in Marjayoun, Lebanon, April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Aziz Taher, Reuters)

A worshipper prays on the Stone of Unction, where tradition holds that Jesus was laid out after his death, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City on Good Friday, April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Ronen Zvulun, Reuters)

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, who is in Ukraine as a papal envoy, prays over a mass grave near Borodyanka, Ukraine, on Good Friday, April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pilgrims walk across a tidal causeway during the final leg of their Good Friday pilgrimage in Northumberland, England, April 15, 2022. For nearly 40 years, Christians have taken part in the pilgrimage to Holy Island. (CNS photo/Lee Smith, Reuters)

Bishop Donald Kettler washes feet during Holy Thursday Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral April 14. The tradition recreates a key event of Holy Week when Jesus washed the feet of the Twelve Apostles at the Last Supper. (Photo courtesy of St. Mary’s Cathedral)

Clergymen arrive for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City on Holy Thursday, April 14, 2022. (CNS photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters)

Nuns pray during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City on Holy Thursday, April 14, 2022. (CNS photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters)

New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond washes the foot of an inmate at the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans Holy Thursday April 14, 2022. This Holy Thursday tradition recreates a key event of Holy Week when Jesus washed the feet of the 12 apostles at the Last Supper. (CNS photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald)

Catholic faithful carry a large platform with a scene of Christ’s crucifixion as part of Holy Week in Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 12, 2022. (CNS photo/Luis Echeverria, Reuters)

Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly of the Knights of Columbus and Ukraine State Deputy Youriy Maletskiy, a leader of the Knights in Lviv, deliver Easter care packages April 12, 2022, to Ukrainian families at a 14th-century monastery in Rava-Ruska in the Lviv Archdiocese. The families, been displaced by war, were taking refuge in the monastery in Western Ukraine. (CNS photo/Tamino Petelinsek, courtesy Knights of Columbus)

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