Sepuh Sargsyan, archbishop and prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Diocese of Tehran, blesses a child after Easter Sunday Mass at Saint Sarkis Cathedral in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Christians around the world celebrated on Sunday the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most important holiday in the Christian liturgical calendar.
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People raise their hands to the sky in song during an Easter Sunday sunrise prayer service at the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)People attend a traditional Easter fire, a traditional bonfire lit symbolizing the resurrection of Jesus Christ, on a mine dump of the last German coal mine, in Bottrop, Germany, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)Young women in folk costumes sing during the Easter folk festival in the village of Holloko, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in northeastern Hungary, on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026. (Peter Komka/MTI via AP)Worshippers carry a figure of Jesus Christ during an Easter procession through Panama City’s old town, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)Neophytes get dressed in their new white robes after being baptized at an Easter vigil at St. James Cathedral, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Indian Christian devotees offer prayers at a church on Easter Sunday in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 5, 2026.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)Archbishop Paul D. Etienne baptizes a candidate during an Easter vigil at St. James Cathedral, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Worshippers attend Easter Sunday Mass at Saint Sarkis Cathedral, an Armenian Apostolic church, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Worshippers hold candles during the Easter vigil Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of Vilnius, Lithuania, late Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)A woman leans on a wall during Easter Sunday Mass at Saint Sarkis Cathedral, an Armenian Apostolic church, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Christian worshippers attend an Easter mass at the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Worshippers who will receive the sacrament of baptism gather in a room ahead of the Easter Vigil Mass at Our Lady of the Angels Church in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)A young worshipper rests on a bench outside the nave of the cathedral during an Easter vigil at St. James Cathedral, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful at the end of Easter Mass he presided over in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)Worshippers hold candles during the Easter vigil Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of Vilnius, Lithuania, late Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)People raise their hands to the sky during an Easter Sunday sunrise prayer service at the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
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