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People take part in a mass at a church in the town of Fot, during 'Ash Wednesday' celebrations. (AFP Photo/Attila Kisbenedek)
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A woman, her forehead marked with ash in the symbol of the crucifix, attends a mass in observance of Ash Wednesday at a Catholic church in Hyderabad. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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Bavarian State Governor and head of German Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer (R) and former Bavarian state governor Edmund Stoiber lift their beer steins at the party's traditional Ash Wednesday rally in Passau, southern Germany. (AFP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)
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A visitor of the traditional Ash Wednesday rally of the German Christian Social Union (CSU) holds up a beer stein in Passau, southern Germany. (AFP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)
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Bavarian state governor and head of German Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer (L) and former Bavarian state governor Edmund Stoiber (R) hold up their beer mugs at the party's traditional Ash Wednesday rally in Passau, southern Germany. (AFP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)
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Hans Baumgartner, in traditional Bavarian clothes, drinks beer during the traditional Ash Wednesday meeting of the SPD in Vilshofen, southern Germany. (Reuters/Michaela Rehle)
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Philippine Roman Catholic seminarians apply ash on the foreheads of faithfuls during the observance of Ash Wednesday, at a church ground in Paranaque City suburban Manila. (AFP Photo/Ted Aljibe)
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Devotees light candles after being marked with black ashes on their foreheads at a Catholic church in observance of Ash Wednesday to usher the 40-day Lenten Season in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Catholic lay leader marks the foreheads of devotees with black ashes in the sign of a cross, in observance of Ash Wednesday in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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