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Easter around the world
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Pope Benedict XVI leads the Vatican's Easter vigil service at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. Christians on Easter joyously mark their belief that Christ rose from the dead after his crucifixion. AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito
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Catholics attend an Easter Vigil mass at the Cathedral Primada de America in Santo Domingo. REUTERS/Ricardo Rojas
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Cardinal Audrys Juozas Backis during the blessing at the Easter vigil mass in the Cathedral in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday. AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis
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Bulgarian Catholic women attend an Easter vigil mass in the Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel in the town of Rakovski. AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff
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A Greek Orthodox nun makes a palm ribbon before attending a vesper ceremony inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
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Protesters take part in traditional Easter anti-war demonstration in the southern German city of Stuttgart. AFP/Franziska Kraufmann
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A Christian girl decorates an Easter egg in preparation of Easter Sunday in Guwahati, India. AP Photo/Anupam Nath
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Chinese Catholic pray as they attend an Easter service at the historic South Cathedral in Beijing. AFP/Mark Ralston
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Pope Benedict XVI waves at the end of the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday at St Peter's basilica at The Vatican. AFP/Vincenzo Pinto
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Philippine schoolchildren dressed as angels dance as they take part in a religious procession outside a Catholic church in Quezon City suburban Manila. AFP/Jay Directo
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Fishermen dressed as Roman soldiers collapse as they re-enact a scene from the Bible during mass as part of the Easter tradition at the church in the village of Sumartin, on the Adriatic island of Brac. REUTERS/Matko Biljak
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