This is how the world is celebrating Easter during the covid-19 pandemic

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By Kenneth Dickerman | Apr. 12, 2020

Evangelical priest Waldemar Pytel is surrounded by photos of believers, who are unable to attend Easter service because of the coronavirus crisis, at the Evangelical Church of Peace in Swidnica, Poland.

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Pope Francis reads his “Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World)” message on Easter Sunday in St. Peter’s Basilica with no public participation due to the coronavirus.

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Priest Xavier Lemble holds Easter Mass with photos of believers who were asked to send in pictures in Bethune, France.

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Priest Elias Marinhuk wears a face mask and shield as he blesses Easter baskets in Curitiba, Parana state, Brazil.

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A nun walks along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Sorrow) ahead of Easter Sunday service in Jerusalem’s Old City.

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The bishop of Mallorca, Sebastia Taltavull, offers the traditional Easter Sunday Mass in the deserted cathedral in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

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A family shares a traditional Easter breakfast while meeting online for Easter Sunday in Warsaw.

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Xavier Lemble and Pierre Thibault hold Easter mass in Bethune, France.

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Felix and his mother Naomi Hassebroek look at her sister’s newborn baby through a glass door while dropping off a bag of supplies in Brooklyn.

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Chaplains of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes prepare for a live-streamed Easter Sunday service in France.

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Cardinal Peter Erdo leads Easter Sunday Mass at an empty basilica in Budapest. The mass was broadcast online and on TV.

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People gather at the Lincoln Memorial to celebrate sunrise on Easter.

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Friendship Baptist Church held Easter services at their church in Baltimore. Alvin Gwynn, the church’s pastor, kept the church open on Easter Sunday, defying Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s order to remain closed.

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A mother and son look for Easter eggs in the yard of their home in Daillens, Switzerland.

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Pastors wear face masks and keep their distance during an Easter service at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul.

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A Romanian Christian Orthodox priest with a face mask distributes willow branches to residents of a building on Easter Sunday.

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The Rev. Pat Allerton, a vicar at St Peters church in Notting Hill, leads prayer on Easter Sunday in London.

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Senior pastor David Ball of the Church of Our Savior conducts a drive-in Easter service in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Crossroads Church members Kaulin Parris, left, Greyson Parris and Kerri Parris cut materials while making face masks for local health professionals in Bluefield, W.Va.

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A Catholic nun attends the Easter Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Mother Teresa in Pristina, Kosovo.

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Christian Wayne Njenga, left, and his brother Warren watch television at home as they follow the live broadcasting of an Easter Sunday service in Nairobi.

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