PHOTOS OF THE WEEK: Easter around the World, Ramadan

By Jessi Dodge · April 22, 2022

(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Easter and Passover celebrations around the world, Ramadan and more. A woman takes part on a Good Friday ceremony inside the damaged Pokrova church, during Orthodox Easter, on the outskirt of Chernihiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 22, 2022. The church was damaged last month by an explosion of a mortar nearby. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) A vendor arranges hand-decorated Easter eggs on Orthodox Good Friday at a market in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, April 22, 2022. Orthodox Serbs celebrate Easter on April 24, according to the old Julian calendar. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) People line up for free iftar, the evening meal with which Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast, distributed for the needy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, April 18, 2022. Muslims are observing Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, when they refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) People watch a burning effigy representing Judas Iscariot and COVID-19, in a neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 17, 2022.The burning of Judas is an Eastertime ritual in many communities. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshippers gather for Palm Sunday celebrations at Deir Al-Sultan, located on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Christians believe Jesus Christ was buried and resurrected, in Jerusalem, Sunday, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky blesses parishioners after a service celebrating Palm Sunday at the Russian Orthodox St. Tatiana Cathedral near the Kremlin in Moscow, Sunday, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Christians attend during an Easter mass in Our Lady of Fatima Church in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) A child standing among priests outside the Patriarchal Cathedral after an Orthodox Palm Sunday pilgrimage in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, April 16, 2022. Thousands joined the pilgrimage, which has been affected by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in the previous two years. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) People gather around Easter bonfires at a beach on the Baltic Sea in Niendorf, Germany, Saturday, April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) Faithful gather for the Catholic Easter Sunday Mass led by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 17, 2022. For many Christians, this weekend marks the first time in three years they will gather in person to celebrate Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Moshe Werzberger shops at a kosher supermarket in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood in New York on April 19, 2022. Some U.S. Jewish families observing Passover are struggling to pay for matzo, eggs and gefilte fish and worry about how soaring inflation is driving up prices during one of the most important holidays for Jews. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao) A protester holds a copy of the Quran at a demonstration to condemn planned Quran burnings by a right-wing group in Sweden, in front of the Swedish Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 18, 2022. Sweden has seen unrest, scuffles and violence since Thursday, triggered by Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan's planned Quran burnings across the country. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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