Observing Ash Wednesday Around the World
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A churchgoer prepares to receive ashes from Baltimore Archbishop William Lori's outstretched hand during an Ash Wednesday mass in Baltimore. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a time when Christians commit to acts of penitence and prayer in preparation for Easter Sunday.
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The Rev. Ethan Jewett, with Saint Clement's Episcopal Church, places ashes on a woman's forehead in Philadelphia.
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Cardinal Angelo Comastri puts ash on Pope Benedict XVI's head during the Ash Wednesday mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
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Indian Catholic Christian women offer prayers on Ash Wednesday at Saint Mary's Basilica in Hyderabad, India.
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Bishop Richard Malone distributes ashes to Catholics during Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo, N.Y.
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A priest applies ashes to his thumb as he prepares to apply them to a churchgoer's forehead during an Ash Wednesday mass in Baltimore.
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A woman has her forehead marked with black ashes in the sign of the cross during a Mass for Ash Wednesday at Westminster Cathedral in London.
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A man receives ashes from Rev. Sahra Harding in front of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland on Ash Wednesday.
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An Indian Catholic Christian woman holds a rosary and prays on Ash Wednesday at Saint Mary's Basilica in Hyderabad, India.
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A Catholic faithful with the sign of the cross in ash on her forehead, leaves a mass to mark the beginning of Ash Wednesday at the church of the Assumption in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Filipino Roman Catholic nuns and lay leaders rub the sign of the cross with ashes on the foreheads of worshipers in observance of Ash Wednesday in Manila, Philippines.
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An Indian Catholic priest rubs the sign of the cross with ash on the forehead of a worshiper on Ash Wednesday at Saint Mary's Basilica in Hyderabad, India.
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The Rev. Ethan Jewett, center, with Saint Clement's Episcopal Church, places ash on worshipers' foreheads on Ash Wednesday in Philadelphia.
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A mother and child walk away from Catholic priest John Paul as he rubs the sign of the cross with ash on the forehead of a worshiper on Ash Wednesday at the church of Assumption in Lagos, Nigeria.
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