Millions around the world celebrated Orthodox Easter last weekend. The celebrations and reflections are here captured in images by AP photographers…
Men carry the “Epitaph,” the procession of Jesus’ funeral bier, into the sea in the town of Tolo, about 150 kilometres south-west of Athens, Greece, on Friday, 14th April, 2023. About 300 million Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Easter on Sunday, 16th April, the most important religious holiday in the Orthodox Christian calendar. PICTURE: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis.
Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshippers gather for Palm Sunday celebrations at the Ethiopian monks’ quarters on the rooftop of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the place where Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected, in Jerusalem, on Sunday, 9th April, 2023. PICTURE: AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg.
People save icons as they clear the rubble after a Russian rocket ruined an Orthodox church in rocket attack on Easter night, a crater left by the rocket in the foreground, in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, early hours on Sunday, 16th April, 2023. PICTURE: AP Photo/Kateryna Klochk.
Lithuanian Orthodox priests and believers walk in the Easter procession at the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania, shortly after midnight, on Sunday, 16th April, 2023. PICTURE: AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis.
A vendor arranges hand-decorated Easter eggs, on Orthodox Good Friday at a green market, in Belgrade, Serbia, on Friday, 14th April, 2023. PICTURE: AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic.
Ethiopians celebrate Good Friday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Friday, 14th April, 2023. PICTURE: AP Photo.
In this time exposure photo, Orthodox worshippers trail candle lights around a church during Orthodox Easter midnight Mass in St Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday, 16th April, 2023. PICTURE: AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky.
Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, right, joins an Easter meal with Ukrainian servicemen stationed in a defensive post in Kyiv region, on Saturday, 15th April, 2023. PICTURE: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue.
