Photos: Good Friday celebrations from around the world

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Photos: Good Friday celebrations from around the world

Christian faithful mark the day that Jesus died on the cross. Some are kneeling down in prayer and reflection. Others are actually recreating the cruxifiction.

A Christian devotee re-enacts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to mark Good Friday in Mumbai, India, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Indian Christian devotees re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to mark Good Friday in Mumbai, India, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

A Christian devotee enacts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to mark Good Friday in Gauhati, India, Friday, April 18, 2014. Christians all over the world are marking Good Friday, the day when Jesus Christ was crucified. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A Filipino devotee is nailed to a cross to re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Santa Lucia village, Pampanga province, northern Philippines on Friday, April 18, 2014. Church leaders and health officials have spoken against the practice which mixes Roman Catholic devotion with folk belief, but the annual rites continue to draw participants and huge crowds. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Pilgrims walk with crosses as the Northern Cross pilgrimage makes its final leg of the journey to Holy Island, Berwick Upon Tweed, England, Friday, April 18, 2014. For more than 30 years, groups of pilgrims celebrate Easter by crossing the tidal causeway during the annual Christian cross carrying pilgrimage to Holy Island , the pilgrims walk around 100 miles through Northumberland and the Scottish Borders during Holy Week. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Pilgrims walk with crosses as the Northern Cross pilgrimage makes its final leg of the journey to Holy Island, Berwick Upon Tweed, England, Friday, April 18, 2014. For more than 30 years, groups of pilgrims celebrate Easter by crossing the tidal causeway during the annual Christian cross carrying pilgrimage to Holy Island , the pilgrims walk around 100 miles through Northumberland and the Scottish Borders during Holy Week.(AP Photo/Scott Heppell).

Pilgrims walk with crosses as the Northern Cross pilgrimage makes its final leg of the journey to Holy Island, Berwick Upon Tweed, England, Friday, April 18, 2014. For more than 30 years, groups of pilgrims celebrate Easter by crossing the tidal causeway during the annual Christian cross carrying pilgrimage to Holy Island , the pilgrims walk around 100 miles through Northumberland and the Scottish Borders during Holy Week. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Danish national Lasse Spang Olsen, a 48-year-old filmmaker, grimaces as he is nailed to a cross to re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in San Pedro Cutud village, Pampanga province, northern Philippines on Friday, April 18, 2014. Church leaders and health officials have spoken against the practice which mixes Roman Catholic devotion with folk belief, but the annual rites continue to draw participants and huge crowds. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Clerics are passing retired miners at the peak of a coal mine dump in Bottrop, Germany, on Good Friday, April 18, 2014. 15 stations marked by religious and coal mining motives are passed by hundreds of faithful in a traditional procession to the top of the former coal mining dump. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

A dog sleeps on the ground during a church service at the peak of a coal mine dump in Bottrop, Germany, on Good Friday, April 18, 2014. 15 stations marked by religious and coal mining motives are passed by hundreds of faithful in a traditional procession to the top of the former coal mining dump. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Thirteen life-sized figures representing the Passion of Christ are carried through the town during the traditional Good Friday procession in Lohr am Main, southern Germany, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Karl-Josef Hildenbrand)

Thirteen life-sized figures representing the Passion of Christ are carried through the town during the traditional Good Friday procession in Lohr am Main, southern Germany, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Karl-Josef Hildenbrand)

Thirteen life-sized figures representing the Passion of Christ are carried through the town during the traditional Good Friday procession in Lohr am Main, southern Germany, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Karl-Josef Hildenbrand)

A Christian devotee re-enacts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to mark Good Friday in Jammu, India, Friday, April 18, 2014. Christians all over the world are marking Good Friday, the day when Jesus Christ was crucified. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

An Indian Christian woman touches a huge cross as she prays on Good Friday in Kolkata, India, Friday, April 18, 2014. Christians all over the world are marking Good Friday, the day when Christ was crucified. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Serbian pilgrims carry crosses during Good Friday in Jerusalem Friday, April 18, 2014, as Christians commemorated the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

A Filipino Catholic devotee carries a wooden cross as a form of penitence on Good Friday, April 18, 2014, at Kapitangan village, Bulacan province, north of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/ Alecs Ongcal)

Filipino devotee, Precy Valencia, gets herself nailed to the cross during the reenactment of Jesus Christ crucifixion on Good Friday, April 18, 2014 at Kapitangan village, Bulacan province north of Manila, Philippines. Several Filipinos were nailed to the cross on Good Friday as their vow mostly to atone for their sins and for personal petitions. (AP Photo/Alecs Ongcal)

A Filipino devotee who was nailed to a cross is lifted as they try to re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in San Juan village, Pampanga province, northern Philippines on Friday, April 18, 2014. Church leaders and health officials have spoken against the practice which mixes Roman Catholic devotion with folk belief, but the annual rites continue to draw participants and huge crowds. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Sri Lankan Christians carry a cross symbolizing the journey of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ during a Good Friday procession in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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A Christian devotee re-enacts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to mark Good Friday in Mumbai, India, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

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