Today in Pictures, April 10, 2023
Worshippers singing and dancing ahead of a mass wedding ceremony in Johannesburg, revellers at the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in New York and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Worshippers singing and dancing at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in Zuurbekom, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, ahead of a mass wedding ceremony where 80 couples got married during the Easter Sunday service on April 9.
PHOTO: AFP
Revellers at the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in Manhattan, New York City, United States, on April 9.
PHOTO: REUTERS
The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, blessing worshippers during a religious service on Palm Sunday at a cathedral in the capital Yerevan on April 9.
PHOTO: AFP
People at the Dahla Dam in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on April 8. The dam, built with the help of the United States in 1952, has been filled after three years of severe drought. Situated 40km north-west of Kandahar, it irrigates 76,000ha of land in seven agricultural districts of Kandahar.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Sorb horsemen dressed in black traditional outfits in the Sorbian Easter horseback procession on Easter Sunday on April 9 in Ralbitz, Germany. Following an ancient religious ritual, Sorbs ride decorated horses while singing, and announce Jesus Christ's resurrection. The Sorbs are a Slavic minority in eastern Germany near the German-Polish border.
PHOTO: AFP
Members of the "Real e Ilustre Congregacion de Nuestra Senora de la Soledad y Desamparo" congregation taking part in the "Tamborrada" procession, on Plaza Mayor in Madrid on April 9. Spain's colourful Holy Week celebrations this year began on April 2, featuring centuries-old processions of the faithful that draw huge crowds.
PHOTO: AFP
A reindeer and jockey competing in the finals of the PoroCup, a Finnish reindeer race on the frozen lake of Inari, on April 9. Due to the warm weather this year, the conditions of the track were not good enough for the longest race, and only a short version of the competition was raced in a U-shaped 1,000m track.
PHOTO: AFP
Tourists enjoying the snow covered slopes of Sonamarg in District Ganderbal, about 80km from Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, on April 9. Kashmir has been experiencing sunny and dry weather the past several days, with the Meteorological Department forecasting mainly dry weather till April 16.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A man and his children in front of a crescent moon-shaped decoration in the town of Ulcinj, in Montenegro, on April 9, during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
PHOTO: AFP
