
A girl leans on a Romanian Orthodox priest before an Orthodox pilgrimage on Palm Sunday in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, April 8, 2023. According to local media, hundreds of Orthodox priests and worshipers demonstrated in the Romanian capital and major cities ahead of Palm Sunday. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
The palm-bearers arrive in procession at the start of the Palm Sunday mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday, April 2, 2023, a day after he was discharged from Rome’s Agostino Gemelli University Hospital, where he was being treated for bronchitis, the Vatican said. The Roman Catholic Church enters Holy Week, reliving the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection three days later on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis presides over a ceremony celebrating Easter at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Saturday, April 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Believers raise a giant wooden cross before the Árbol de la Vida or Tree of Life during a Good Friday procession in the hills of the Ciudad Bolivar neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia, Friday, April 7, 2023. Holy Week celebrates the last week of the earth. The life of Jesus Christ culminates in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Holiday. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Penitents of the Confraternity of Padre Jesus Nazareno hold a portable podium supporting a statue of Christ carried by Costaleros during a Holy Week procession in Prigo de Cordoba, southern Spain, on Friday, April 7, 2023. Hundreds of processions took place throughout Spain during the week Holy Easter. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Archbishop Gintaras Grusas, center, speaks during a Holy Week procession at Three Crosses Hill in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, April 7, 2023. Holy Week celebrates the last week of Jesus Christ’s earthly life which culminated in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Christians pause along the Via Dolorosa, a route believed to be the path Jesus took to his crucifixion, on Good Friday in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
A masked penitent of “Santa Veracruz” carries a cross as he takes part in a Holy Week procession as people look on, in Calahorra, northern Spain, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
The Vatican said the scene of the Palm Sunday mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican Sunday, April 2, 2023, the day after he was discharged from Rome’s Agostino Gemelli University Hospital, where he was treated for bronchitis. . The Roman Catholic Church enters Holy Week, reliving the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection three days later on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)