More than 260 million people marked Easter Sunday, with worshippers asked to stay at home to avoid coronavirus spread.
While many watched services online or on television, some sidestepped virus fears to attend churches on the most important date in the Orthodox calendar.
Here is our selection of photos from the Orthodox world taken between April 13 and April 19, 2020.
Christ is risen!
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