Holy Week traditions (Easter) around the World

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Women wearing a traditional mantilla dress take part in a procession of the "Gitanos" brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian city of Malaga, southern Spain April 6, 2009. Hundreds of Easter processions take place around the clock in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)

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Penitents take part in a procession of the "Fusionadas" brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian city of Malaga, southern Spain April 8, 2009. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)

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Penitents take part in the La Paz brotherhood procession in Sevilla on Palm Sunday at the start of holy week on April 5, 2009. (CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Colombian penitents carry an altar during Holy Week processions in Cali, Colombia on April 08, 2009. (REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga)

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The face of a statue of the Virgin Mary is seen in the chapel of "Las tres gracias" during Holy Week in Pontevedra, northern Spain, April 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Miguel Vidal)

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A hooded penitent takes part in the procession of "Santa Genoveva" brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

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A Filipino penitent crawls on the hot pavement as he performs rites meant to atone for sins at San Fernando city, Pampanga province, northern Philippines on Maundy Thursday April 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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An unidentified masked penitent is seen as he prepares his special clothes the day before the "Los Picaos" brotherhood procession in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, northern Spain, Wednesday, April 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

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Penitents take part in the procession of "La Paz" (The Peace) brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo)

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Catholic clergy walk during the Holy Thursday procession of the Washing of the Feet inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City Thursday April 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

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A man, carrying a bundle of cactus on his shoulders in penance, also holds a cross during a procession of penitents during Holy Week in Taxco, Mexico, Thursday, April 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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A hooded penitent takes part in the "Nuestro Padre Jesus del Gran Poder y Maria Santisima de la Esperanza Macarena" Holy Week procession in Madrid, Spain on April 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Susana Vera)

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The statue of the La Merced Virgin is carried during the "La Merced" brotherhood procession of the Holy Week in Bollullos de la Mitacion, near Sevilla, Spain on April 9, 2009. Christian believers around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP/Getty Images )

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A view of Saint Peter's Square during the Palm Sunday Service on April 5, 2009 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

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A masked penitent kneels as he flagellates himself during the start of a procession as part of Holy Week celebrations through the streets of Taxco in the Mexican state of Guerrero April 9, 2009. Hundreds of penitents, bound and flagellating themselves, wound through the labyrinthine cobblestone streets of Taxco, an almost 500-year-old silver mining town built into a mountainside, in one of the most dramatic and heartfelt Easter rituals staged in this fervently Catholic country. (REUTERS/Henry Romero)

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A Penitent in a "dancing of the dead" mask looks on during an Easter Holy Week procession in Verges, Spain, Friday, April 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

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Filipino flagellants kneel in front of the church as they perform rites meant to atone for sins at San Fernando city, Pampanga province, northern Philippines on Maundy Thursday, April 9, 2009. Many Philippine devotees practice flagellation and penitence during the holy week in rites frowned upon by church leaders in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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A penitent holds up a staff, taking part in the procession of Palm Sunday brotherhood during Holy Week in Palma de Mallorca April 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Dani Cardona)

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Catholic faithful hold palm fronds during Palm Sunday celebrations in Managua, Nicaragua on Sunday, April 5, 2009. Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and is the start of the Catholic Church's Holy Week. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Hooded penitents take part in the "Santa Genoveva" brotherhood procession during the Holy Week in Sevilla on April 6, 2009. (CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Children wearing hoods as penitents take part in a procession in a school before the start of Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain April 3, 2009. (REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo)

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People throw flowers during the Palm Sunday procession of the "Estudiantes" brotherhood at the start of Holy Week in Oviedo, northern Spain, April 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Eloy Alonso

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Children dressed as penitents prepare to attend the "Procession of the Torches" during Holy Week in Cidade de Goias, central Brazil April 8, 2009. (REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker)

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The procession of "San Gonzalo" brotherhood takes place during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo)

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Hooded penitents from the Fusionadas brotherhood take part in the procession in Malaga, Spain, Wednesday, April 8, 2009. (AP Photo/EFE, Jorge Zapata

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Catholics balance baskets of clothes on their heads that symbolically belong to Jesus Christ - to be washed as part of Holy Week celebrations in Chalchuapa, El Salvador, Monday, April 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)

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Penitents take part in the "San Bernardo" brotherhood procession during the Holy Week in Sevilla on April 8, 2009. (CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP/Getty Images)

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A man touches a statue of Jesus Christ during Palm Sunday celebrations in Managua, Nicaragua on Sunday, April 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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A Catholic devotee has his hands nailed on the cross as part of reenacting Christ's suffering on the cross during a Passion play as part of a religious ritual during Easter celebrations in a village in San Fernando, Pampanga, north of Manila, on April 10, 2009. Devout Catholics stage passion plays and crucifixions recounting the sufferings of Christ as part of observance of Easter celebrations in South East Asian archipelago nation of some 90 million of which 85 percent are Catholics amidst sharp criticisms from the church. (JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Penitents take part in the procession of "La Paz" brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

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A penitent walks to his church to start the "San Bernardo" brotherhood procession during the Holy Week in Sevilla on April 8, 2009. (CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP/Getty Images)

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South Korean Christians pray during an annual Easter Mass in front of the Seoul City Hall, South Korea, Sunday morning, April 12, 2009. About 20,000 Christian devotees wished peace and early reunification of the divided Koreas. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

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Easter was still observed in earthquake-torn central Italy - members of the fraternal order of St. Maria of Loreto run across the square of Sulmona as they carry the statue of Madonna che Scappa, or The Madonna Who Runs in the Square, during a Easter Sunday ceremony in L'Aquila, Italy on April 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi)

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Iraqi Christians pray during Easter Mass in a church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 12, 2009. Iraq's dwindling Christian community celebrated Easter services Sunday, taking advantage of the improved security in Baghdad and other parts of the country. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Pakistani Christian girls wait to receive communion during the Easter mass at a catholic church in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, April 12, 2009. Pakistani Christians account for about 3.8 million of Pakistan's 140 million people. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Catholic pilgrims and clergymen hold candles as they walk in procession around the tomb traditionally believed to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, during the Easter mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, April 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Pope Benedict XVI holds a candle during the Easter vigil mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on April 11, 2009. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

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Christian nuns pray during a midnight prayer service at the Our Lady Of Charity Church on April 11, 2009 in the village of Raikia, India. Christians gathered to pray under threat of continued secular violence in the Kandhamal area. Violence by Hindu extremists towards Christian minorities in the state has seen hundreds killed, over a thousand homes and scores of churches destoyed over the last several months. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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A child looks around while Chinese Catholics participate in an Easter mass at the Nantang church in Beijing, China, Sunday, April 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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People from a choir group sing during a sunrise prayer by Dhaka Pastors Fellowship on Easter Sunday in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Andrew Biraj)

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Bulgarian Catholic women hold candles during the Easter vigil mass in the Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel in the town of Rakovski, Bulgaria on April 11, 2009. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Christian girl lights a candle as others pray to a shrine of Mother Mary during a midnight prayer service at the Our Lady Of Charity Church on April 11, 2009 in the village of Raikia, India. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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Catholic worshippers hold candles during the Easter mass at a church in Xiaohan village of Tianjin municipality, China on April 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Vincent Du

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A Christian worshiper holds a candle inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher during a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City on April 2, 2010. Christian worshipers retraced the traditional route Jesus Christ took along the Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner)

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Women carry a statue of the Virgin Mary during a Holy Week procession in Guatemala City, Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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A Pakistani Christian woman prays during a mass on Orthodox Palm Sunday, at Fatima Church in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, March 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A member of a brotherhood carries a statue of Christ during a procesion in honor of "Jesus of Nazareth" in the town of Izalco, 60 km west of San Salvador, El Salvador on April 1, 2010. (Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images)

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A penitent called "Picao" walks with chains as he takes part in the "Santa Vera Cruz" brotherhood procession of the Holy Week in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, 330km north of Madrid, Spain on April 1, 2010. (CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Penitents perform the "dance of the dead" during an Easter Holy Week procession in Verges, northeastern Spain, in early hours of Friday, April 2, 2010. (AP Photo/David Ramos)

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A parishioner prays before the processcion of "Jesus Nazareno del Rescate" in Guatemala City, Guatemala on March 31, 2010. (JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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Deacon Buruk Kidane has his feet and hands washed by Reverend Gebrekiros at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church April 1, 2010 in Denver, Colorado. (Matt McClain/Getty Images)

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Pope Benedict XVI leads the Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican March 28, 2010. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi)

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A man attached to a cross prays at one of the 14 stations of the cross or "Via Crucis", a depiction of the final hours of Jesus Christ during the procession of the "Empalaos" in Valverde de la Vera, Extremadura, Spain on Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

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Ethnic Russian children hold a prayer book during the Maundy Thursday religious service in Sarichioi, eastern Romania on Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda

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A penitent takes part in the "La Paz" brotherhood procession during the Holy Week in Sevilla, Spain on March 28, 2010. (CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Filipina Roman Catholic Mary-Jane Mamangun is nailed to a cross as a re-enactment of the Crucifixion of Christ during Good Friday celebrations ahead of Easter in the village of San Juan, north of Manila, in The Philippines on April 2, 2010. (JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Penitents adjust their hoods as they take part in the "Fusionadas" brotherhood procession during the Holy Week in Malaga, Spain on March 31, 2010. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images)

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Eden Hailu, 10, lights candles at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church April 1, 2010 in Denver, Colorado. (Matt McClain/Getty Images)

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A woman wearing a traditional Mantilla dress takes part in a procession of the Gitanos brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian city of Malaga, southern Spain on March 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca

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A masked Christian dressed as a devil, popularly known as a "Talsiguin", lashes a man from the crowd during the celebration of an ancient local Catholic tradition which marks the start of Holy Week, on March 29, 2010 in Texistepeque, El Salvador. Catholic faithful are lashed by the Talciguines to cleanse their sins. (Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images

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Members of the Spanish Legion carry the icon, Christ of the Good Death, to the Santo Domingo de Guzman Church during an easter procession on April 1, 2010 in Malaga, southern Spain. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images)

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Orthodox Christians immerse themselves in the Jordan River at a baptism ceremony, during Holy Week, at Qasr el Yahud near the West Bank town of Jericho, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The site is traditionally believed by many to be the place where Jesus was baptized. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit

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Ethiopian Orthodox Christian pilgrims pray inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, during the Eastern Orthodox Easter week in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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A Christian pilgrim dressed as Jesus Christ, is photographed while lying on a cross during a reenactment of the crucifixion during a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Penitents dressed as different Biblical characters wait for the start of the "Nuestro Padre Jesus Preso" brotherhood procession during Holy Week in Puente Genil, near Cordoba, southern Spain, April 1, 2010. Hundreds of men dressed as characters from the Old and New Testaments parade alongside other penitents who carry floats bearing sculptures of Christ and the Virgin and models of biblical scenes during Holy Week in Puente Genil. (REUTERS/Javier Barbancho

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At least one hundred penitents carry the image of Jesus Christ during a Holy Week procession in downtown Guatemala City, Guatemala on Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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A penitent wears a blindfold during the "Lagrimas y Favores" brotherhood procession during the Holy Week on 28 March 2010 in Malaga, southern Spain, during the Easter week celebrations. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images)

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A penitent participates in the Camino del Calvario procession, popularly known as "Turbas", in Cuenca, Spain early Friday, April, 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Bustamante)

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A girl dressed as an angel awaits a procession of penitents during Holy Week in Taxco, Mexico, Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

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Penitents of the Cofradia del Silencio walk the streets during a Holy Week procession on Wednesday in Zamora, Spain. Easter week is celebrated with processions in most Spanish towns. (Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)

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Christians burn incense during a Holy Week procession in Guatemala City on Monday. 2010-march 29 (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd )

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Faithful carry a statue of Jesus Christ during an Easter Sunday procession in El Crucero, Nicaragua on Sunday. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Christian Orthodox believers with candles attend an Easter service in St. Trinity church in town of Radovis, southeastern Macedonia, early Sunday. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

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Pakistani Christian girls display their hands decorated with Bangles and painted with Henna paste as they celebrate Easter holiday following a mass at a church in a Christian neighborhood of Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday. Pakistani Christians, who account for about 3.8 million of Pakistan's 140 million people, are celebrating Easter along with other Christian nations. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A Christian Ethiopian pilgrim holds a cross during Good Friday processions along Via Dolorosa, in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday. Christians are marking the solemn period of Easter. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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People take part in a reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ during Holy Week in Port-au-Prince. Holy Week commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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Palestinian Christians carry their large wooden cross along the Via Dolorosa, the route tradition says Jesus carried the cross on which he was to be crucified by the Romans, to mark Good Friday in Jerusalem's Old City. Thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world thronged the narrow cobblestone alleys as they retraced the footsteps of Jesus and the Stations of the Cross. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

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A Filipino penitent is nailed to a cross during yearly religious rituals in San Juan village, San Fernando town, Pampanga province, northern Philippines. Filipino devotees re-enacted Jesus Christ's suffering by having themselves nailed to the cross in yearly Good Friday rites frowned upon by church leaders in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Ruben Enaje, right, who has been nailed to the cross for 24 times, grimaces as actors dressed as centurions pound a nail on his feet during yearly religious rituals in San Pedro Cutud village, San Fernando town, Pampanga province, northern Philippines. Filipino devotees re-enacted Jesus Christ's suffering by having themselves nailed to the cross in yearly Good Friday rites frowned upon by church leaders in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Christian Orthodox pilgrims hold crosses during Good Friday processions along the Via Dolorosa, the "Way of Suffering," tracing Jesus' final steps in Jerusalem's Old City. Christians are marking the solemn period of Easter. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Women carry a statue of the Virgin Mary during a Holy Week procession in Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Actors reenact the crucifixion of Jesus during Holy Week in Tandil, Argentina. (AP Photo/Pablo Aneli)

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Filipino believers waving palm branches during the ritual blessing of the church in a suburb of Manila. Catholics across the country celebrate Palm Sunday, symbolizing the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem and the beginning of Holy Week.-2010 (AP / Aaron Favila)

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Catholics go in procession on the eve of Holy Week in Moscow 2010-March 27. (AP / Sergey Ponomarev)

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Children participate in a procession to Holy Week in Córdoba on 2010-28 March. (AP / Manu Fernandez)

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Member of the brotherhood of Jesus Nazareno smooths the hair on the figure of Jesus Christ on the eve of Holy Week in the Spanish town of Vejer de la Frontera in the province of Cadiz, Andalusia, 2010-March 26. (AP / Emilio Morenatti)

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The elderly woman leaned on the cross during a service for those killed in Frumusani, southern Romania, on 2010-March 28. Orthodox Christians in the village gathered at midnight to light the lamps on the graves and share a meal in remembrance of the dead relatives. (AP / Vadim Ghirda)

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The head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Bethlehem Bishop Teofilaktos (center) holds a palm branch during the service at the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem on 2010-March 28. (AFP / Getty Images / Musa Al-Shaer)

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A spokeswoman for the indigenous population of La Paz holds a palm branch in the church on 2010-March 28. (AP / Dado Galdieri)

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A boy carries a basket with palm branches in San Pedro Sakatepekez, 25 km west of Guatemala City - 2010. (AFP / Getty Images / Johan Ordonez)

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Catholics in the service on Palm Sunday in Caracas. (AP / Ariana Cubillos) - 2010

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Miguel Angel Morenatti / AP Hooded penitents from the La Paz brotherhood take part in a procession as people look on in Seville, Spain, Sunday, 2011- April 17. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.

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Laszlo Balogh / Reuters - A woman runs while men throw water at her as part of traditional Easter celebrations, during a media presentation in Holloko, Hungary, 62 miles east of Budapest, on April 14. Locals from the World Heritage village of Holloko, celebrate Easter with the traditional "watering of the girls", a Hungarian tribal fertility ritual rooted in the area's pre-Christian past.

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Slovenian artist Franc Grom drills a hole in an empty egg shell in Vrhnika, Slovenia on April 9, 2009. Grom drills thousands of holes into egg shells to create unique Easter eggs of fragile beauty. (REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic)

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Slovenian artist Franc Grom displays his drilled Easter eggs in Vrhnika, Slovenia April 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic)

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Traditionally hand painted eggs for Easter are displayed for sale during a Palm Sunday fair at the Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania on April 12, 2009. Romania's Orthodox majority celebrates Easter a week after the Catholics. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)

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Jens Meyer / AP - Volker Kraft decorates a tree with 9,800 Easter eggs at the garden of pensionar couple Christa and Volker Kraft in Saalfeld, Germany, Monday, April 11, 2011. The Kraft family have decorated their tree for Easter for more than forty years.

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Children are greated by an Easter Bunny as they arrive to play on the new Treehouse Towers at Kew gardens on Tuesday in London, England. The new tree themed outdoor play area opens to the public from Good Friday to coincide with Kew's Easter Festival. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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