Apr 17, 2014

A woman burns incense in front of the graves of her relatives, Pope Francis celebrates the Chrism Mass, a man walks in front of a fountain in the center of Lille and more.

: A woman burns incense in front of the graves of her relatives at a cemetery in the village of Copaciu, southwest of Bucharest, early morning April 17, 2014. Orthodox women went to church and cemeteries in the early morning on Maundy Thursday to light candles, burn incense and mourn their dead relatives as part of a southern Romanian tradition. Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, is the day Christians commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus Christ. Romania’s Christian Orthodox majority will celebrate Easter on April 20 together with Catholic believers. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)

: Pope Francis celebrates the Chrism Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 17, 2014. (REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini)

: A Christian worshipper prays in the Ethiopian section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City April 17, 2014. The period around Holy Week and the upcoming Easter holiday draws pilgrims from around the globe to Jerusalem, home to some of Christianity’s most important sites. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner)

: Standing in a rigid hull inflatable boat launched from the Australian Navy ship HMAS Perth, Boatswain’s Mate, Able Seaman Morgan Macdonald observes markers dropped from a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3K Orion after an object was sighted in the southern Indian Ocean during the continuing search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in this picture released by the Australian Defence Force April 17, 2014. The search for the Malaysia Airlines jetliner deep in the Indian Ocean was again cut short on Wednesday when technical problems forced the U.S. Navy underwater drone to surface without finding anything, officials said. An unspecified technical problem meant the Bluefin resurfaced early on Wednesday and analysis of the sonar data downloaded showed no significant detections, the Australian agency leading the search said. (REUTERS/Australian Defence Force/Handout via Reuters)

: The Lovai family from India pose for a photograph in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City April 7, 2014. The period around Holy Week and the upcoming Easter holiday draws pilgrims from around the globe to Jerusalem, home to some of Christianity’s most important sites. Among them is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the most famous church in Jerusalem, if not the world, which stands on the site where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, entombed and resurrected. Picture taken April 7, 2014. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)

: A veiled Muslim woman casts her vote inside a polling station in Doda district, north of Jammu April 17, 2014. Around 815 million people have registered to vote in the world’s biggest election – a number exceeding the population of Europe and a world record – and results of the mammoth exercise, which concludes on May 12, are due on May 16. (REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta)

: A man wearing a traditional turban casts his vote inside a polling station in Ajmer district in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan April 17, 2014. India kicked off the biggest day of its mammoth general election on Thursday, with a quarter of its 815 million voters set to head to the polls during a week of fresh blows for the ruling Congress party and gains for the Hindu nationalist opposition. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)

: Catholics leave the San Antonio de Padua church with a statue of Jesus Nazareno, for a procession known as “Jesus Nazareno of the tapes”, during Holy Week in Cot de Cartago, west of San Jose, April 16, 2014. According to Jorge Masis, a priest at the church, people tie ribbons to the statue to symbolize promises they make to Jesus during Holy Week. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)

: A woman is reflected in a glass pane as she prays with incense sticks during a gathering at a memorial stupa, with bones of more than 8,000 victims of the Khmer Rouge regime, at Choeung Ek, a “Killing Fields” site located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh April 17, 2014. Hundreds of Cambodians and monks gathered at the site to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge reign, which plunged the nation into a radical communist group genocide regime from 1975-1979. (REUTERS/Samrang Pring)

: A woman smells cherry trees in full blossom at Kungstradgarden in Central Stockholm on April 17, 2014. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)

: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic serves to Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta during their Monte-Carlo ATP Masters Series Tournament tennis match, on April 17, 2014 in Monaco. (Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images)

: Some local school girls in traditional clothes of the Kalocsa area react as boys throw water in Kalocsa, some 100 km south of Budapest on April 17, 2014 during a rehearsal of the traditional Easter celebrations by the members of the local folk dance group. Locals from south Hungary celebrate Easter with the traditional “watering of the girls”, a fertility ritual rooted in Hungary’s tribal pre-Christian past, going as far back as the second century AD. (Atilla Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man walks in front of a fountain in the center of Lille, on April 17, 2014. (Philippe HuguenAFP/Getty Images)

: Relatives wait on a pier in Jindo on April 17, 2014, as the frantic search for nearly 300 people, most of them schoolchildren, missing after a South Korean ferry capsized extended into a second day, as distraught relatives maintained an agonising vigil on shore. Heart-wrenching messages of fear, love and despair, sent by high school students from a sinking South Korean ferry added extra emotional weight on April 17 to a tragedy that has stunned the entire nation. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

: A relative (C) reacts as she waits in a makeshift tent along a dockside in Jindo on April 17, 2014, as the frantic search for nearly 300 people, most of them schoolchildren, missing after a South Korean ferry capsized extended into a second day, as distraught relatives maintained an agonising vigil on shore. Heart-wrenching messages of fear, love and despair, sent by high school students from a sinking South Korean ferry added extra emotional weight on April 17 to a tragedy that has stunned the entire nation. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, voting in India, South Korea ferry | April 17

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