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)
Christians are celebrating Holy Week with processions and reenactments across the globe.
The week between Palm Sunday and Easter, known as Holy Week, is the most sacred time of the year for Christian faithful as they commemorate the passion of Jesus Christ.
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Worshippers light candles at Our Lady of the Angels Church during the Easter Vigil Mass in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)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 attend a traditional Easter fire, a traditional bonfire lit on Holy Saturday symbolizing the resurrection of Jesus Christ, in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)Pope Leo XIV waves after leading the Easter Vigil inside St. Peter’s Basilica at The Vatican, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)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 faithful attends Pope Leo XIV’s Easter Vigil inside St. Peter’s Basilica at The Vatican, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)Participants prepare to march during an Easter parade in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)Girls wait inside a church for their Children’s Holy Thursday procession during Holy Week in Tunja, Colombia, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)A hooded Filipino flagellant, with a Virgin Mary tattoo, whips his back along a street as part of Maundy Thursday rituals to atone for sins or fulfill vows for an answered prayer on April 2, 2026 at Mandaluyong city, Philippines as they practice bizarre lenten rituals frowned upon by the church in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Priests attend Mass presided over by Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on the Catholic feast of Palm Sunday, commemorating Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)Inmates perform a Stations of the Cross reenactment at Tacumbu prison in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)Catholics take part in a Holy Week procession in Panama City’s Casco Viejo, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)Catholic worshipers carry their children on their shoulders as they march in a procession during a Palm Sunday Mass in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Parishioners take part in a Holy Week procession in Puellaro, Ecuador, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)Parishioners pray in a Mass during a Nazarene of Saint Paul procession honoring Jesus Christ during Holy Week in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Women wearing traditional “mantillas” of the ‘Franciscana de Pasion’ brotherhood attend a Holy Week procession in Lucena, southern Spain, Monday, March 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)A woman and her dog attend a Mass on Palm Sunday, marking the start of Holy Week, at the Divine Child Church in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)Penitents of the ‘Pollinita’ brotherhood, dressed in a typical Apostle costumes pose for a picture ahead the Holy Week procession in Cabra, southern Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Christian clergy attend a Palm Sunday Mass in Gaza City Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Llamas wait to be sold on Palm Sunday at the Feria de Ramos, in El Alto, Bolivia, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)A priest distributes the Holy Communion during the Palm Sunday Mass at the St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic church in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)Catholic faithfuls collect palm fronds to commemorate Palm Sunday, outside St. Micheal’s Cathedral church, in Minna, Nigeria, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)Catholic children representing angels pose for photos prior to join the Palm Sunday commemoration in Santa Cruz Chinautla, Guatemala, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)Catholic nuns walk during a Palm Sunday procession in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)Penitents of the “Pollinita” brotherhodod take part in a Holy Week procession in Cabra, southern Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Christians walk with palm branches during Palm Sunday in Jerusalem’s Old City, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)Pakistani Christians attend a Palm Sunday Mass at St. Anthony Church in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)Christian devotees hold palm leaves during a Palm Sunday procession marking the sixth and final Sunday of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)A church worker uses two bottles to sprinkle holy water on the palm fronds of devotees during blessing rites outside the Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo city, Rizal province Philippines as they observe Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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