In pictures: Christians mark Easter in the Middle East
An Iraqi priest holds Easter mass at Baghdad’s St Elya Chaldean Church on 4 April, main picture and above (Reuters/Khalid al-Mousily)
Palestinians celebrate Easter mass at the Roman Catholic church of the Holy Family in Gaza City, in the besieged Gaza Strip, on Sunday. While Catholic Christians marked the holiday on 4 April this year, Orthodox denominations celebrated Easter on 2 May (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
In the Turkish city of Istanbul, worshippers attended Easter Sunday mass at the Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the second Easter since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic (Reuters/Dilara Senkaya)
In Lebanon, Christian worshippers followed Covid-19 social distancing rules at the church of Our Lady of Protection, east of the capital Beirut (AFP/Anwar Amro)
Jerusalem’s Old City saw worshipers attend mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre amid eased pandemic restrictions (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
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