In Pictures: Christians around the world celebrate Easter

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)

The Pope toured St Peter’s Square in his popemobile on Sunday, as Christians worldwide lit candles and celebrated Easter.

Pope Francis tours St Peter’s Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Andrew Medichini/AP)

Faithful attend the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday (Gregorio Borgia/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 (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

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

Filipino Catholic devotees light candles during Easter Sunday rites at the St Peter Chapels in Quezon City, Philippines (Basilio Sepe/AP)

Louis Sako, patriarch of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, blesses the faithful during Easter religious services at Mar Youssif Chaldean Church in Baghdad (Hadi Mizban/AP)

People march in the rain during the Easter parade in Seoul, South Korea (Lee Jin-man/AP)

Pakistani Christians attend a midnight Easter Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral Church, in Karachi (Fareed Khan/AP)

A woman attends the Orthodox Christian service of the Graveside Lamentation at the Patriarchal Church of St George, in Istanbul, Turkey (Francisco Seco/AP)

Ethiopian Orthodox devotees gather to pray during Easter celebrations at St John Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Addis Ababa (AP)

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

A Russian soldier lights a candle at a service at an unspecified location in Ukraine (Russian Defence Ministry Press Service/AP)

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin holds a traditional Easter painted egg shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 space capsule near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan (Roscosmos space corporation/AP)