Christians Mark Good Friday Around the World

Christians around the world are participating in Good Friday ceremonies. The Good Friday processions are in commemoration of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ on calvary 2000 years.

Though reenactment of Jesus’ crucifixion differs from country it has the same message of hope and regeneration.

While in many parts of Germany the Good Friday is marked with church services except in Berlin where some devotees carry the cross through the streets.

 

However other parts of the world are more elaborate in their ceremonies. I hope you enjoy  Good Friday procession around the world. 

 David Carnell plays a part of Jesus Christ during a "Journey to the Cross" procession while celebrating Good Friday in Sydney, Australia, Friday, March 29, 2013. The annual event by Wesley Mission tells the Easter story in a modern Australia. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Pilgrims walk with crosses as the Northern Cross pilgrimage makes its final leg of the journey to Holy Island, Berwick Upon Tweed, England, Friday, March 29, 2013. For more than 30 years, groups of pilgrims celebrate Easter by crossing the tidal causeway during the annual Christian cross carrying pilgrimage to Holy Island . The pilgrims walk around 100 miles through Northumberland and the Scottish Borders during Holy Week.(AP Photo/Scott Heppell).

Cardinal Roger Mahony, at the front of the cross, is joined by other members of the clergy in celebrating the Liturgy of the Passion and Death of Christ in Los Angeles. The Good Friday ceremony was held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Hooded penitents wearing heavy chains wait for the start of the Good Friday procession, Atlixco, Mexico.

Reenactment of the dragging of Judas on Good Friday, Masatepe, Nicaragua

An elderly Pakistani Christian man, prays during a Mass on Good Friday in a church in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, March 29, 2013. Christians around the world are marking the Easter holy week. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen).

 

Penitents of the Jesus Yacente brotherhood take part in a Holy Week procession in Zamora, northern Spain, Thursday, March 28, 2013. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.  (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

 

Man plays Jesus Christ during San Fernando Cathedral Passion Play on Good Friday, San Antonio, Texas.

Source: AP