Christians Celebrate Easter

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican , April 5, 2015.

Faithful wait in the rain for Pope Francis' arrival to the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 5, 2015.

Pope Francis waves as he delivers a "Urbi et Orbi" message from the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 5, 2015.

Pope Francis salutes faithful in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, April 5, 2015.

Iraqis women light candles after the Palm Sunday service at Lady Deliverance Church in Baghdad, April 5, 2015.

Worshipers run while carrying a statue of the Risen Christ as confetti streams down during an Easter Sunday procession in Cospicua, outside Valletta, Malta, April 5, 2015.

South Korean Catholics buy eggs to celebrate Easter at Myungdong Cathedral in Seoul, April 5, 2015.

Pakistani Christians chant prayers during Easter service in Karachi, April 5, 2015.

Members of the Catholic clergy hold candles during Easter procession in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, April 5, 2015.

Christians sing during the service at the Our Lady of Consolation Church, which was attacked with grenades by militants almost three years ago, in Garissa, Kenya, April 5, 2015. Easter Sunday's ceremony was laden with emotion for the several hundred members of Garissa's Christian minority, which is fearful following the recent attack on Garissa University College by al-Shabab, a Somalia-based Islamic extremist group.

Alba Oroz, 8, secured by a harness, is transported in the air, above the crowd as she unveils the face of a statue of the Virgin Mary, during the Easter Sunday ceremony ''Descent of the Angel'', during Holy Week in the small town of Tudela, northern Spain, April 5, 2015.

An Indian Christian prays during Easter Mass at a Church in Gauhati, April 5, 2015.