Christian faithful mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem

Christians walk in the Palm Sunday procession on the Mount of Olives (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Thousands of Christian pilgrims have participated in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of Holy Week.

Worshipers carried palm fronds and olive branches and marched from the top of the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem’s historic Old City, home to holy sites of the three Abrahamic monotheistic faiths.