Thursday, 24 April 2025
Thursday, 24 April 2025
On Friday, Christians across the world marked Good Friday with prayers, processions, and re-enactments of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In cities and towns, on beaches and inside cathedrals, believers gathered to reflect on sacrifice and faith.
From Jerusalem to Germany, Cyprus to South Africa, Good Friday was marked through processions, re-enactments, and rituals — each rooted in local tradition. In the Philippines, Ruben Enaje was once again nailed to a cross in a dramatic re-enactment, while in Paris, Skopje, and Durban, worshippers gathered for prayers, baptisms, and public commemorations.
People offer prayers during Good Friday mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral Church, in New Delhi, Friday, April 18, 2025.
Worshippers carry crosses during the Christian Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City, April 18, 2025.
Members of the Italian community take part in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday in Bensheim, southwest of Frankfurt, Germany, April 18, 2025.
Filipino Catholic Ruben Enaje is carried after being nailed to the cross during his reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, in San Fernando, Philippines, April 18, 2025.
Nuns and other Catholic faithful take part in a Good Friday procession in Kolkata, India, April 18, 2025.
Charalambos Phylahtou, Deputy Mayor of Kathikas, takes part in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, on Good Friday, during Orthodox Easter celebrations in Kathikas village, Cyprus April 18, 2025.
People pray during a Good Friday "Stations of the Cross" procession in front of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris, France, April 18, 2025.
Worshippers gather for the celebrations for the Passion of the Lord at the Church of Saint Clement of Ohrid, on Good Friday, in Skopje, North Macedonia, April 18, 2025.
Church elders baptise a worshipper on the beach on Good Friday in Durban, South Africa, April 18, 2025.
Worshippers gather for the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord on Good Friday at Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, April 18, 2025.
