Photos Of The Week (April 10-16, 2023)

An Orthodox priest sprinkles holy water on Ukrainian soldiers holding paschas during a special service for the Ukrainian Armed Forces ahead of Easter at St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv.

An Orthodox worshipper attends a Good Friday mass in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Sikh pilgrims take a dip during the Baisakhi, a spring harvest festival, in the Pakistani city of Hasan Abdal. 

Hand-painted Easter eggs are displayed on a stall fat a farmers market in Belgrade, Serbia. 

A man looks at his phone as he lies on steps at the Muzeon Park of Arts on a warm day in Moscow. 

A worker prepares traditional vermicelli noodles, a favorite during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a factory in Karachi, Pakistan.

A woman waits at a bus stop next to a poster promoting service in the Russian Army in Moscow.

A thick layer of volcanic ash covers the ground in Klyuchi on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula after an eruption of the Shiveluch volcano.

A couple kiss at the Japanese Garden in the King Michael I park in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. 

A police car lies heavily heavily damaged on the street following a bomb blast in the restive Pakistani city of Quetta.

Ukrainian priests learn how to use a fire extinguisher on the eve of Orthodox Christian Easter in Odesa on April 12.

Dressed in folk costumes, young men pour water on a young woman in Holloko, a historic mountain village some 80 kilometers northeast of Budapest. According to an old Hungarian tradition, on Easter Monday young men pour water on young women, who in exchange present the men with hand-decorated colored eggs.

CCTV cameras are seen in front of a mural of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on a street in Tehran. According to the state IRNA news agency, the Iranian police released a statement saying they are stepping up a crackdown on women not wearing a head scarf in public, and that Iranian police will use CCTV in public places and roads for control and identification purposes.

Afghan boys fly kites on a hilltop in Kabul.

A woman prays during a gathering for the ritual prayers of Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny), one of the holiest nights during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Imamzadeh Saleh Mosque in Tehran.

Burqa-clad women leave after collecting free bags of flour from a government distribution point in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Muslim worshipers attend afternoon prayers during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Ukrainians celebrate Orthodox Easter near the heavily damaged church in the village of Lukashivka, Chernihiv region, on April 16.

A woman reacts in front of a partially destroyed residential building after a Russian missile strike in Slovyansk on April 14.