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Easter Day celebrations around the world

Easter Day celebrations around the world, in pictures

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Easter Day celebrations around the world

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  1. Easter Day celebrations around the world

  2. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leads the Easter Sunday service at Canterbury Cathedral Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images

  3. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, delivers his Easter sermon in Canterbury Cathedral Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA

  4. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby meets members of the congregation following the Easter Day service at Canterbury Cathedral

  5. The Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh arrive for the Easter Sunday church service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Picture: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

  6. The Queen receives flowers from Milo Fairman (aged 7) after the Easter Matins service at St Georges' Chapel, Windsor Castle Picture: Heathcliff O'Malley/The Telegraph

  7. Sophie Wessex loses her step after the Easter Matins service at St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle Picture: Heathcliff O'Malley/The Telegraph

  8. Members of the Royal family arrive for the Easter Sunday church service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Picture: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

  9. (From left) Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Autumn Philips and Princess Beatrice Picture: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

  10. Prince Edward arrives for the Easter Sunday church service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Picture: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

  11. Princess Beatrice of York Picture: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

  12. Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Princess Anne, Princess Royal Picture: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

  13. Prime Minister David Cameron and wife Samantha attended an Easter Sunday service at St Nicholas' church in the village of Chadlington Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA

  14. Prime Minister David Cameron helps to feed a newborn lamb at Dean Lane Farm near his home in Oxfordshire, earlier attending an Easter Sunday service with his wife Samantha in Oxford. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA

  15. Sorb horseriders take part in an Easter procession in Zerkwitz near Luebbenau in the Spreewald area of Germany. The Western Slavic people of the Sorbs are acknowledged as a national minority with their own language in eastern Germany. Picture: EPA/PATRICK PLEUL

  16. A priest sprinkles believers with holy water during the celebrations for Easter Sunday in the Crimean port of Yevpatoriya Picture: REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov

  17. Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Picture: AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano

  18. Pope Francis greets the crowd from the central loggia of St Peters' Basilica after the Easter Mass at the Vatican Picture: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

  19. Pope Francis greets the crowds from his Popemobile after the Easter Mass in St Peter's Square

  20. Altar assistants stand with umbrellas as Pope Francis leads the Easter mass in St. Peter's square at the Vatican Picture: REUTERS/Max Rossi

  21. Pope Francis gives Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Picture: REUTERS/Max Rossi

  22. Pope Francis leads the Easter Mass in St Peter's Square at the Vatican Picture: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

  23. Pope Francis celebrates Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Picture: AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

  24. Pope Francis blesses the crowd during the Easter Mass at St Peter's Square in the Vatican Picture: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images

  25. Pope Francis blesses the crowd during the Easter Mass at St Peter's Square in the Vatican Picture: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

  26. Crowds gather under heavy rain for the Easter Mass in St Peter's Square Picture: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

  27. Italian soldiers perform ceremonial duties before the Easter Mass in St Peter's Square Picture: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

  28. A Vatican Swiss guard stands in St. Peter's Square before Pope Francis leads the Easter mass at the Vatican Picture: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

  29. Vatican Swiss guards march as they arrive in St. Peter's square before Pope Francis leads the Easter mass at the Vatican Picture: REUTERS/Max Rossi

  30. The statue of St Peter as crowds gather under heavy rain for the Easter Mass at St Peter's Square in Vatican Picture: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

  31. Cardinal Fernando Filoni (R), Pope Francis' special envoy to Iraq, listens to the Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, Louis Raphael Sako (L) speaking during a mass for Easter celebrations, attended by Iraqi Christians who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. Picture: SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images

  32. Pakistani Christians chant prayers during Easter service in Karachi, Pakistan Picture: AP Photo/Fareed Khan

  33. South Korean Christians participate in an annual Easter service rally at Yeonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. About 10,000 participants prayed for peace and the nuclear-free Korean peninsula. Picture: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

  34. A woman holding a bunch of willow branches places her head on an icon as she prays at the Cathedral Church in Baku during Easter celebrations in Azerbaijan Picture: TOFIK BABAYEV/AFP/Getty Images

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