Easter in pictures
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Filipino students at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila perform Easter Sunday rites celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. -
The Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu conducts full immersion baptisms in front of St Michael-le-Belfrey church in the city in northern England. -
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing at the end of the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" speech, from the terrace of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. -
Iraqi Catholics on their way to Easter mass in Baghdad pass by a security guard keeping watch. -
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theofilos III (centre) takes part in the Palm Sunday mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem's Old City. -
Penitents from the El Resucitado (The Resurrected) brotherhood are seen before a Holy Week procession in Cordoba, southern Spain. -
A young Christian girl holds a candle during Easter celebrations at midnight mass in St Mary's Church in Secunderabad, India. -
Kenyan hawker sells crosses outside the Holy Family Basilica church in Nairobi, after an overnight vigil mass celebrating Easter. -
An Armenian priest in Bulgaria consecrates hundreds of red eggs during Easter celebrations in a church in the town of Varna, north-east of the capital Sofia.