Infanta, Philippines
Flagellants wearing dried banana leaves whip their backs during Good Friday Lenten rites
Photograph: Ezra Acayan/Getty
Ronda, Spain
Legionnaires and penitents next to a sculpture of the crucifixion, known as the Christ of the Good Death
Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
A Catholic re-enactment of the crucifixion at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty
Valencia, Spain
Penitents of the Cristo Salvador (Christ the Saviour) brotherhood take part in a procession on the beach
Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland
An actor play ing Jesus and others playing soldiers take part in the Stations of the Cross
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty
Jerusalem
Christians from around the world carry wooden crosses and walk the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) in the Old City
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Zamora, Spain
Penitents of the Hermandad de Jesús Yacente brotherhood prepare to take part in a procession
Photograph: César Manso/AFP/Getty
Amritsar, India
Christians re-enact the crucifixion
Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
A Catholic re-enactment of the crucifixion at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty
Tenerife, Spain
An installation by the artist Carlos Curbelo
Photograph: Mercedes Menendez/Pacific Press/Rex
Chennai, India
A re-enactment of the crucifixion
Photograph: R Satish Babu/AFP/Getty
Surabaya, Indonesia
Catholics re-enact the crucifixion at St Mikael church
Photograph: Juni Kriswanto/AFP Photo/AFP/Getty
San Fernando, Philippines
Wilfredo Salvador takes part in a re-enactment
Photograph: Jam Sta Rosa/AFP/Getty
Málaga, Spain
Members of the Spanish Legion hold up El Cristo de la Buena Muerte, or Christ of the Good Death
Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP
Pampanga, Philippines
An actor playing Christ is tied to a cross
Photograph: Lisa Marie David/Reuters
Asturias, Spain
The passing of the ‘third word’ during the Procession of Silence
Photograph: Alberto Brevers/Pacific Press/Rex
Tenerife, Spain
Costaleras (women bearers) carry an effigy of the Santisimo Cristo Cautivo during the Nuestro Padre Jesus Cautivo and María Santísima de la Esperanza Macarena processions
Photograph: Désirée Martín/AFP/Getty
Kyiv, Ukraine
About 30 military chaplains take part in a Good Friday ceremony
Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty
Antipolo, Philippines
A dramatic depiction taking place of the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ
Photograph: Ryan Eduard Benaid/SOPA/Rex
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