Iraqi Christians gather to celebrate Palm Sunday outside the St. Elijah church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on April 1, 2023
Members of different brotherhoods of palmeros (palm frond pickers) carry fronds as they arrive at the foot of El Avila hill in the Waraira Repano National Park in Caracas on April 1, 2023
Catholic Christians wave their palm fronds as a church layman blesses them during Palm Sunday celebrations at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto church in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, on April 2, 2023
Pakistani Christians attend a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Anthony Church in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, April 2, 2023
Nuns and faithful wait for the start of the Palm Sunday s mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter s Square at The Vatican Sunday, April 2, 2023
Christian devotees gather to celebrate Palm Sunday, in Chennai on April 2, 2023.
Pope Francis arrives in the popemobile car for the Palm Sunday mass on April 2, 2023 at St. Peter s square in The Vatican.
Pope Francis presides over the celebration of the Palm Sunday mass on April 2, 2023 at St. Peter s square in The Vatican.
Cardinals holding a woven palm branch take part in a procession at St. Peter s square during the Palm Sunday mass on April 2, 2023 at St. Peter s square in The Vatican