Gallery: Good Friday around the world
Young penitents relax during a procession for Good Friday on the southern island of Procida in Naples’ gulf on March 29, 2013. The ‘Misteri’ floats’, depicting scenes from the Bible, are carried in the streets during the annual procession which started in 1627.
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Penitents carry a sculpture of Virgin Mary during a procession for Good Friday on the southern island of Procida in Naples’ gulf on March 29, 2013. The ‘Misteri’ floats’, depicting scenes from the Bible, are carried in the streets during the annual procession which started in 1627.
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Paris’ archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois carries a cross as he takes part in a Way of the Cross in Paris, in front of the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Montmartre district, on March 29, 2013, to celebrate Good Friday.
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Penitents carry a sculpture of the crucifixion during a procession for Good Friday on the southern island of Procida in Naples’ gulf on March 29, 2013. The ‘Misteri’ floats’, depicting scenes from the Bible, are carried in the streets during the annual procession which started in 1627.
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An American pilgrim from ‘The Hope of Glory’ order reenacts the Passion of Christ along the Via Dolorosa during the Good Friday procession on on March 29, 2013 in Jerusalem’s Old City, Israel. Good Friday is celebrated by Christians throughout the world as the day Christ was crucified on the cross in the lead up to his resurrection on Easter.
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Indian bystanders stand behind participants dressed as Roman soldiers during a re-enactment of the Good Friday procession through the streets of Mumbai on March 29, 2013. A procession of Indian Christians from all walks of life participated in the march in the streets portraying the suffering meted out by Roman soldiers to Jesus Christ on his way to the Crucifixion. Christians, for whom Easter marks the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, account for 2.3 percent of India’s billion-plus Hindu-majority population.
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An American pilgrim from “The Hope of Glory” order reenacts the Passion of Christ along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering), in Jerusalem’s Old City during the Good Friday procession on March 29, 2013. Thousands of Christian pilgrims took part in processions along the route where according to tradition Jesus Christ carried the cross during his last days.
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Homeless man, Rakesh has his beard trimmed by Sister Christobel Fonseca on a sidewalk outside a church in Mumbai on Good Friday, March 29, 2013. Volunteers from ‘Mother Teresa’s Roses’, armed with cleaning and medical supplies, find destitute people on the streets and bathe them, clean their wounds and give them a haircut. India now has 55 dollar billionaires, the fifth-biggest number in the world, according to a Forbes ranking but like other emerging economies such as China, its charitable giving still lags markedly behind that in the West where the tradition of wealthy businessmen donating chunks of their fortunes is much more deeply ingrained.
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Indonesian Catholics participate in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday on March 29, 2013 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. Catholics make up approximately 3% of the population of the predominantly Muslim country.
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Indonesian catholics kisses a statue of Jesus during the re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday on March 29, 2013 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. Catholics make up approximately 3% of the population of the predominantly Muslim country.
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Indonesian Catholics participate in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday on March 29, 2013 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. Catholics make up approximately 3% of the population of the predominantly Muslim country.
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Christian pilgrims carry crucifixes along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) in Jerusalem’s Old City during the Good Friday procession on March 29, 2013. Thousands of Christian pilgrims took part in processions along the route where according to tradition Jesus Christ carried the cross during his final days.
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