In pictures: Palm Sunday

The Christian world is marking Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week when Jesus Christ's entry into Jerusalem is remembered. Here palm vendors wait in Manila.

This Philippine boy is waiting to have a palm frond blessed by a Catholic priest. Palms are special because they were used to greet Jesus.

These Roman Catholic nuns are choosing palm fronds in Hyderabad, India.

Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Roman Catholic Church, attended the Palm Sunday procession on Saint Peter's Square, Rome.

During the mass, the Pope urged the tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in the square not to let their day-to-day lives get in the way of their search for God.

This elderly woman carries willow branches as young Catholics walk to church in Bucharest, Romania.

Believers bearing palms and olive branches thronged the square as Swiss Guards looked on.

The event was marked by Christians in Jerusalem itself. Here Orthodox Christians descend from the Mt of Olives into the Old City.

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