Christian faithful celebrate Easter in a pandemic

1. Christian faithful celebrate Easter in a pandemic

2. Pope Francis lies down in prayer prior Good Friday celebrations for the Passion of the Lord, at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, April 2, 2021. Andreas Solaro/Pool via REUTERS

3. Chinese Catholics attend an Easter Vigil service at a Catholic church in Shanghai, China April 3, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

4. A congregant listens to a prayer during a drive-in Easter service, with social distancing in place despite the lifting of state-wide coronavirus restrictions, at the Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church in Sumter, South Carolina, U.S. April 4, 2021.

5. An indigenous Raramuri boy participates in Good Friday celebrations in the Tarahumara neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

6. Women dressed in traditional clothes of the Slavic ethnic community of Sorbs meet early on Easter Sunday to sing in front of a church in Schleife, Germany, April 4, 2021. REUTERS/Matthias Rietschel

7. A man prays outside a church which is closed due to sanitary lockdown measures during the Holy Week celebration in Santiago, Chile April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

8. A religious worshipper participates in a Solemn Procession at the Papal Cross in the Phoenix Park on Good Friday during Easter Celebrations as churches remain closed in Dublin, Ireland, April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

9. Christian worshippers take part in a Good Friday procession along the Via Dolorosa during Easter Holy Week in Jerusalem's Old City April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

10. Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit leads the annual procession of the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday preceding Easter Celebrations at the Sacre-Coeur Basilica of Montmartre in Paris, France, April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

11. Members of the clergy attend the traditional Easter Vigil held in smaller numbers than in pre-pandemic years on the night of Holy Saturday, marking the ceremonial lighting of the Paschal candle the night before Easter Sunday, as limitations on the

12. Catholic faithful take part in Los Cristos procession during Holy Week celebration in Izalco, El Salvador April 1 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

13. Two priests carry a statue of Jesus Christ splattered with blood from April 21's Easter Sunday bomb attack in 2019, during the Easter Sunday prayers at the one of the attacked churches, St.

14. Worshippers take part in a procession during the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony on Easter Holy Week in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

15. Indigenous Raramuri children participate in Good Friday celebrations in the Tarahumara neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

16. A cross hangs from a post on a street during the Holy Week celebration, in Santiago, Chile April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

17. A child rests during Los Cristos procession in Holy Week celebration in Izalco, El Salvador April 1 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

18. People wearing masks prepare to march through the streets during Easter celebrations in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, April 1, 2021. REUTERS/David W Cerny

19. A Catholic faithful prays as the Popemobile carrying the statue of The Nazarene of St. Paul drives past during Holy Week celebrations in the neighbourhood Catia, in Caracas, Venezuela March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria

20. A faithful wearing a traditional mantilla dress poses for a picture in front of the statue of Jesus del Gran Poder at San Isidro Collegiate Church, after annual Holy Week processions were cancelled in Madrid, Spain, April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Susana Vera

21. A woman cries as faithfuls gather to venerate the statues of Christ and the Virgin of the Mena brotherhood inside a church during the Holy Week, after the annual processions were cancelled in Malaga, Spain April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

22. Flavie Villanueva, a Catholic priest from the Society of the Divine Word, wearing a face mask, leans to kiss the feet of a homeless man after washing them on Maundy Thursday in Manila, Philippines, April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

23. Religious worshippers participate in a Solemn Procession at the Papal Cross in the Phoenix Park on Good Friday during Easter Celebrations as churches remain closed, amid the spread of the coronavirus, in Dublin, Ireland, April 2, 2021.

24. Filipino penitent Greg Meer reacts as he is nailed on a cross during a reenactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion, in Santo Tomas, Batangas province, Philippines, March 30, 2021. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David

25. Members of The Golden Apostolic Faith Healing Mission Church pray during a religious ceremony to celebrate Good Friday, as lockdown regulations ease in Soweto, South Africa, April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

26. A worshipper wearing a protective face mask prays at a church during Good Friday in Kolkata, India, April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

27. A Filipino Catholic performing self-flagellation lies on the ground with his bloodied back outside a church on Good Friday, defying a government ban on religious gatherings in Manila, Philippines, April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

28. Pope Francis leads the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession during Good Friday celebrations in a near-empty St. Peter's square with a limited number of faithful at the Vatican, April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane