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| Believers marked the occasion in the same way they have for centuries in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem |
Orthodox Christians are gathering around the world to celebrate Easter.
Followers mark their faith's most important festival day on 28 April, one week after fellow Christians.
The different dates arise from use of the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.
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| The ceremony involves "sacred fire" appearing from two cavities on either side of the Holy Sepulchre |
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| Some pilgrims wore a "crown of thorns" in Jerusalem's Old City |
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| In Greece on Friday, Orthodox Christians performed a procession in the sea |
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| People throughout Greece celebrated Good Friday with religious icons and services |
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| A member of the Greek Orthodox clergy at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City |
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| The head of the Bosnian Serb Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina conducts an Easter service |
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| A priest blesses Orthodox believers during an Easter ceremony at St George Church in Istanbul |
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| Christians attend an Orthodox Easter service in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli in north-eastern Syria |
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