Photos: Holy Week 2020 around the world - MSN.com

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The Holy Week of Christianity is being observed around the world from April 5 to 11. Marked in the last week of Lent, it begins with Palm Sunday and culminates with Good Friday and Easter. It focuses on the events leading up to Jesus' death by crucifixion and his resurrection. Take a look at how the world is observing the week.

(Pictured) A worshipper prays in front of the closed door of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre before the start of the Easter Sunday service in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 12.




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The Holy Mass of the Easter Saturday Vigil, officiated by Cardinal Carlos Osoro in the Almudena Cathedral, is celebrated behind closed doors, in Madrid, Spain, on April 11.




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The tomb of Christ during Holy Saturday is seen inside the Cloister Church of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, in Krakow, Poland, on April 11.




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A man prays outside the closed San Francisco church on Good Friday, in Quito, Ecuador, on April 10.




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Catholic priests ride on a truck carrying a statue of Jesus on the cross to bless residents quarantined in their homes, during Good Friday commemorations in Mandaluyong, Philippines, on April 10.




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Pope Francis presides the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, in an empty St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, on April 10.




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A penitent observes Good Friday by carrying a cross along a partially deserted street in the Iztapalapa neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico, on April 10.




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The Cardinal-Patriarch of Lisbon D. Manuel Clemente celebrates Good Friday mass behind closed doors, which was broadcast on social media networks, at the Lisbon Cathedral in Portugal on April 10.




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Celebrants walk in St. Peter's Square during the rehearsal of the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession presided by Pope Francis at the Vatican on \April 10.




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People stand outside the church in San Juan Chamula municipality in Chiapas, Mexico, on April 10.

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A Christian pilgrim wearing protective gear amid the COVID-19 outbreak, prays at the first station while making his way alone in the Procession of the Way of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa Street, to mark Good Friday in Jerusalem on April 10.




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Nurses wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19, attend the Via Crucis in Cali, Colombia, on April 10.




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A faithful stands outside La Merced Church, as it remains closed during Holy Week due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, on April 10.




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The Good Friday service in the Cathedral of San Pietro in Bologna, Italy, on April 10.




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Pope Francis holds a Mass on Holy Thursday at St. Peter's Basilica with no public participation due to the COVID-19 outbreak, in Vatican City on April 9.




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Brisbane's Catholic archbishop Mark Coleridge delivers a Good Friday mass to an empty Cathedral of St Stephen in Brisbane, Australia, on April 10.




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Priest Frank Heidkamp is pictured by believers in their cars prior to a Good Friday church service at a drive-in cinema in Düsseldorf, Germany, on April 10.




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Members of the Arunda band music play their instruments on the porch of their home as they celebrate the Holy Week, amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ronda, Spain, on April 9.




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A man carries a cross as he stops at a station on the Via Dolorosa route on Good Friday in Jerusalem's Old City on April 10.




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A mass at the benedictine monastery Notre-Dame de l'Alliance in Rixensart, Belgium, on April 10.

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Canon Pastor Michael Everitt is seen conducting a Good Friday service from the Durham Cathedral grounds in Durham, England, on April 10.




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A Catholic devotee carries a figure of Jesus while praying outside a closed church as he commemorates Good Friday in Manila, Philippines, on April 10.




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A woman prays outside St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral on Good Friday in Melbourne, Australia, on April 10.




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Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, stands at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for the Good Friday service in Jerusalem's Old City on April 10.




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A family attends a live broadcast of a Mass at their house on Good Friday in Ahmedabad, India, on April 10.




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Archbishop Heiner Koch (L) rehearses celebrations of Good Friday liturgy at St. Joseph church to be transmitted via internet, in Berlin, Germany, on April 9.




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A man prays in front of the main gate of La Sed church after an Easter Holy Week procession was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak in Seville, Spain, on April 9.




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A worker puts the collection of Easter chocolate eggs at a market on the eve of Good Friday in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 9.




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A woman carries a rosary as she prays in front of Virgin Mary's statue in a Christian neighborhood of Ain el-Remmaneh on the eve of Good Friday in Beirut on April 9.




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A nazareno reacts from his balcony in Sant Lluís municipality on Minorca, Spain, on April 9.

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Women watch a Holy Week Mass officiated via video call by Raul Garcia, priest of the Nuestra Señora de la Paz church, in the Villar del Arzobispo municipality, Spain, on April 9.




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A member of the Nazarene brotherhood carries a statue of Christ into his home in the indigenous city of Izalco, El Salvador, on April 9.




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Michel Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris, conducts a blessing ceremony in front of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica on the Holy Thursday celebration in Paris, France, on April 9.




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A man prays at the door of La Merced Church in Lima, Peru, on April 9.




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People pray in front of the closed Candelaria church in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on April 9.




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Guayaquil's Auxiliary Bishop Giovanni Battista Piccioli (R) wears a face mask as he gives blessings while overflying the city in Ecuador on April 9.




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Devotees look at the procession of the Nazareno de San Pablo in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 8.




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Penitents from La Columna brotherhood hold small floats with statues of Christ or the Virgin, on their balcony in Ronda, Spain, on April 8.




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People pray outside the church of Saints Marcellinus and Peter that is promoting the collection of food for the needy during Holy Week in Rome, Italy, on April 8.




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Father Steve Buno, Pastor of St. Rita of Cascia Catholic Church in Harahan, Louisiana, U.S., performs drive-through Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament on April 7.

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Father Victor Jimenez performs a Mass before pictures of parishioners at the Our Lady of Fatima Parish Church in San José, Costa Rica, on April 7.




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A woman prays in front of the closed Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 5.




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Pope Francis holds a palm branch as he leads Palm Sunday Mass at St. Peter's Basilica on April 5.




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Catholics in the outskirts of Manila attend an online Mass in the Philippines on April 5. The church has issued guidelines for the faithful to avoid congregation and to celebrate Palm Sunday at home and have their palms be blessed online with the enhanced community quarantine in mind to curb the spread of COVID-19.




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Children hold olive branches as they look out from the sunroof of a car to be blessed by priests on Palm Sunday in Marjayoun, Lebanon, on April 5.




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Members of the medical staff hold palm tree branches at the emergency unit of the Molinette Hospital on Palm Sunday in Turin, Italy, on April 5.




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A Catholic priest sits on an empty bench in Madrid, Spain, on April 5.




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Devotees stand in circles marked on the ground to maintain social distancing as they hold palm branches in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 5.




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A man holds an olive branch on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem's Old City on April 5.