Participants get ready for the Dance of Death during a Holy Week procession in Verges, Spain, on March 29, 2018. Dancers dress in body stockings with skeletons painted on them and carry symbols to stir the people and prepare them for a good death. #

A girl participates in an Easter Sunday procession representing the resurrection of Christ, in the historic Brazilian city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais State, on April 1, 2018. #

A woman from Eritrea and her baby pray at the Stone of Anointing, where Jesus's body is said to have been anointed before burial, during rituals to celebrate Easter Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City in Jerusalem on April 1, 2018. #

Homer rides in a mini school bus during the annual Blessing of the Animals ceremony, presided over by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez in Los Angeles, California, on March 31, 2018. Angelenos brought dogs, cats, birds, goats, snakes, and other animals to the event, which is normally held the day before Easter. The tradition dates back to 1930 in Los Angeles. #

South Korean Christians pray during an annual Easter service rally at Yeonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, on April 1. 2018. About 10,000 participants prayed for peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. #

The statue of Jesus del Gran Poder, or "Jesus of Great Power," is accompanied by thousands in a procession marking Good Friday, in Quito, Ecuador, on March 30, 2018. #

Christians in South Sudan reenact the scene of Jesus Christ being led to his crucifixion, in Juba on March 30, 2018. Christians represent some 60 percent of the population of South Sudan, approximately six million people, with the remainder of the population following traditional African religions and Islam as well as other religions. #

Two men participate in a bare-knuckle fight as part of a local tradition on Good Friday during Holy Week in the town of Chivarreto, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Guatemala, on March 30, 2018. #

Dressed in Bukovina Szekler folk costumes, young men throw water on young women in Ciko, Hungary, on April 2, 2018. According to a centuries-old tradition in Hungarian villages, young men pour water on young women, who in exchange present the men with beautifully colored eggs on Easter Monday. #

Spanish legionnaires carry a crucifix figure depicting El Cristo de la Buena Muerte (Christ of the Good Death) to the Santo Domingo de Guzman church during the Cristo de Mena Holy Week procession on March 29, 2018, in Malaga, Spain. #

A penitent carries a bundle of thorny branches as he takes part in a Holy Week procession in Taxco, Mexico, on March 29, 2018. In Taxco, Roman Catholic brotherhoods preserve a Holy Week tradition that dates to the 1600s. In processions that last from Thursday evening into the early-morning hours of Friday, hooded penitents drag chains and shoulder bundles of thorny branches through the streets, as some flog themselves with nail-studded whips. #

Six-year-old Jamie Pappas takes shelter from the cold in the cape of his father, the Rev. Jim Pappas, during the Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, on March 30, 2018. #

Parishioners hold candles during a Holy Saturday mass on the evening before Easter at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, a government-sanctioned Catholic church in Beijing, China, on March 31, 2018. Catholics in China celebrated Easter amid reports that the Vatican and China's ruling Communist Party were in talks aimed at reaching a deal on who appoints bishops in China. #

Worshipers carry a wooden cross down to the entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Way of the Cross procession in the Old City on March 30, 2018, in Jerusalem. #

Catholic clergy walk during the Washing of the Feet procession at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed by many Christians to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem, on March 29, 2018. #

President Donald Trump appears on the South Portico of the White House with the Easter Bunny standing behind him as the annual White House Easter Egg Roll is held on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2018. #

Worshipers walk to a station during the Way of the Cross procession over the Brooklyn Bridge on March 30, 2018, in New York City. The Way of the Cross is a traditional Catholic procession recalling the suffering and death of Jesus Christ and often includes Gospel readings, choral music, and readings at stations along the way. #

Faithful Catholics take part in the aquatic Via Crucis, in Cocibolca lake, Granada, Nicaragua, on March 26, 2018. The aquatic Via Crucis is carried out on boats between the islets of the Nicaraguan Cocibolca lake. #