Believers stand by tables with Easter cakes as they wait to be blessed by an Orthodox priest during an Orthodox Easter service at the Kazansky Cathedral in St. Petersburg April 14, 2012.. Alexander Demianchuk
An artist makes a giant Easter egg out of roses in front of Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra cathedral in Kiev.. Stringer
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Metropolitan Theophilos (R) washes the foot of a priest during the washing of the feet ceremony outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City April 12, 2012, ahead of Orthodox Easter.. Ammar Awad
An Orthodox priest blesses Easter eggs after a religious service in Russia’s far Eastern port of Vladivostok. Yuri Maltsev
Worshippers walk with candles around the golden-domed Alexander Nevski cathedral during the Orthodox Easter service in Sofia
A man is served steaks during the Tsiknopempti holiday in Athens February 16, 2012. People celebrate this holiday by taking part in a feast where they eat meat, before the start of a lent on Ash Monday, 40 days before celebrating the Orthodox Easter.. Yorgos Karahalis
Revellers celebrate Clean Monday by participating in a colourful “flour war”, a traditional festivity marking the end of the carnival season and the start of the 40-day Lent period until the Orthodox Easter, in the port town of Galaxidi, some 200km (125 miles) northwest of Athens February 27, 2012. REUTERS
Worshippers attend an Orthodox Easter night mass in a church in the settlement of Roshcha, southwest of Moscow. Denis Sinyakov
