PHOTO COLLECTION: Easter

Pope Francis bestows the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing from the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis receives U.S. Vice President JD Vance, left, before bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025. At center the head of the papal houshold Bishop Leonardo Sapienza. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

Pope Francis tours St. Peter’s Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A reveler wearing decorated hat and costume pause for a portrait as she participates in the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday, April 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Revelers wearing decorated hats and costumes participate in the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday, April 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Queen Camilla shakes hands with the children who presented her with as posy as she leaves after attending the Easter Matins Service at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla leave after attending the Easter Matins Service at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

Christian faithful of the Legio Maria African Mission, attend the Easter vigil Mass in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Catholics carry a statue of Jesus Christ during an Easter procession in Panama City’s Casco Viejo, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Members of the Dechenverein Lügde ignite the straw in a wooden wheel, which then rolls down a slope on fire during Easter celebrations in Lügde, Germany, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

Priest Serhii Zezul blesses Easter baskets in front of a church destroyed in fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, during celebration of the Orthodox Easter in Lukashivka village, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

People in traditional Ukrainian clothes perform folk dances during celebrations for Orthodox Easter at the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Lviv, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)

In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, April 20, 2025, a Russian soldier lights a candle attending a religion service on eve of Orthodox Easter at an unspecified location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Fans wear bunny ears at the Easter baseball game between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals, Sunday, April 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Catholics carry a statue of Jesus Christ during an Easter procession in Panama City’s Casco Viejo, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Children pose for a photo with a reveler, known as a sayon, in a tissue paper hat during Easter Day celebrations in Tetela del Volcan, Mexico, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A reveler, known as a sayon, tries to put out a fire he started on a tissue paper hat as part of Easter celebrations in Tetela del Volcan, Mexico, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A man with his wife and two of his brides sits inside a marquee ahead of the mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

People attend an Easter procession in Panama City’s Casco Viejo, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A monkey holds an Easter egg at the Buinzoo in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Ring-tailed lemurs eat Easter eggs at the Buinzoo in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians, leads the Easter Sunday Resurrection liturgy, marking the end of the Holy Week at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A Christian Orthodox worshipper attends the Easter Sunday Resurrection liturgy, marking the end of the Holy Week at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A Christian Orthodox worshipper lights candles during the Easter Sunday Resurrection liturgy, marking the end of the Holy Week at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill leads the Orthodox Easter service at Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Oleg Varov/Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin attend the Orthodox Easter service at Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Oleg Varov/Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP)

Christian pilgrims and clergymen participate in the Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Worshippers gather for Easter Mass inside the ruins of St. George Melkite Catholic Church in Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, Sunday, April 20, 2025, after the church was heavily damaged in an Israeli airstrike earlier in the conflict. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Children hold candles as Iraq-born Armenian church Archbishop Datev Hagopian prepares to share the holy light during the Orthodox Easter service at the Armenian cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Women in black church costumes sing Easter hymns as they walk through the small Lusatian village of Maust near Cottbus Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Patrick Pleul/dpa/dpa via AP)

Indian Catholics dance in the street as the walk in a procession celebrating Easter Sunday commemorating the day when according to Christian tradition Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem two millennia ago, in Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

A trader pulls a sheep to sell in a street market a day before Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter Sunday,in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo)

A Lithuanian Orthodox priest blesses cakes and Easter eggs during an Orthodox Easter ceremony at the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Devotees wait to start the Virgin of Solitude procession in commemoration for the death of her son, Jesus Christ at Calvary, in Antigua, Guatemala, on Holy Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Devotees carry a religious float with a statue of the Virgin of Solitude, in background, right center, commemorating the death of Jesus Christ at Calvary, during a Holy Week procession in Antigua, Guatemala, on Holy Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin holds traditional Easter painted egg shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 space capsule with Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Don Pettit, near Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Roscosmos space corporation via AP)

An Orthodox priest blesses traditional Easter cakes and painted eggs prepared for Easter celebration at a church in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Two young women carry their baskets containing traditional cakes and painted eggs as Believers wait to be blessed by a Russian Orthodox priest, in preparation for an Easter celebration at the St. Boris and Gleb Monastery in the old Russian town of Dmitrov, some 70 km (44 miles) north of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Believers are blessed by Russian Orthodox priest Father Anastasius, as people carry their baskets containing traditional cakes and painted eggs to be blessed in preparation for an Easter celebration at the St. Boris and Gleb Monastery in the old Russian town of Dmitrov, some 70 km (44 miles) north of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Believers with their baskets containing traditional cakes and painted eggs wait to be blessed by an Orthodox priest, in preparation for an Easter celebration at a church in Tallinn, Estonia, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Christians participate in a “Run for Jesus” rally on the eve of Easter Sunday in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Performers reenact during the Easter parade in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Participants attend the Easter parade in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Ethiopian Orthodox devotees gather to pray during Easter celebrations at St. John Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo)

A woman attends the Orthodox Christians service of the Graveside Lamentation at the Patriarchal Church of St. George, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Greek Orthodox Christian worshipers pass under the Epitaphios depicting Jesus Christ’s preparation for burial, during the Good Friday procession at Agios Epifanios church in Droushia village in Paphos district on holy Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Believers pray during the cake and Easter egg blessing ceremony at the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Archbishop Gintaras Grusas performs the blessing during the Easter vigil Mass at the Cathedral in Vilnius, Lithuania, late Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Louis Sako, center, patriarch of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church blesses the faithful during attend Easter religious services at Mar Youssif Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

A Christian woman prays during midnight Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Church, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistani Christians attend a midnight Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Church, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, left, the spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians, holds candles as he conducts the Easter Vigil Mass on the eve of Christ’s resurrection at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Christian faithful of the Legio Maria African Mission, attend the Easter vigil Mass in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Filipino Catholic devotees light candles as they attend Easter Sunday rites at the St. Peter Chapels in Quezon City, Philippines, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Basilio Sepe)

A boy receives the holy communion from Iraq-born Armenian church Archbishop Datev Hagopian during the Orthodox Easter service at the Armenian cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Easter baskets are seen during celebration of the Orthodox Easter in Lviv, Ukraine, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)

Christians attend an Easter Mass at the Cathedral Church of the Resurrection, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Christians attend an Easter Mass at the St. John’s Cathedral, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

A Christian Orthodox priest takes the holy light at the Agios Epifanios church during Easter celebrations in Droushia in the Paphos district on the Akamas peninsula of Cyprus, early Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Youth stand in front of the traditional Easter bonfire, or lambratzia, where effigies of Judas Iscariot, the disciple believed to have betrayed Jesus, are burned during Easter celebrations at the church of Agios Epifanios in the village of Droushia in the Paphos district on the Akamas peninsula on holy Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

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