TIME's Best Pictures of the Week April 18 – April 25, 2014

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Apr. 23, 2014. Portraits are displayed upon a newly opened group memorial altar for the victims from the sunken South Korean ferry "Sewol" at the Ansan Olympic memorial hall. (Kim Doo-Ho—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 18, 2014. Danwon High School students attend the funeral of Lee Da-woon, a victim of the sunken Sewol ferry accident, in Ansan, South Korea. (Woohae Cho—The New York Times)





Apr. 22, 2014. A woman mourns as one of the bodies of three men killed in a shootout days earlier passes, during the mens' funeral outside the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Slovyansk, Ukraine. (Mauricio Lima—The New York Times)





Apr. 18, 2014. A Christian Orthodox pilgrim kisses a wooden cross as it is carried along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) during a procession marking Good Friday in Jerusalem's old city. (Gali Tibbon—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 18, 2014. Worshipers of the 'Santisimo Cristo del Salvador' brotherhood pray around the crucifix on the beach during a holy week procession in Valencia, Spain. Spain celebrates holy week before Easter with processions in most Spanish towns. (David Ramos—Getty Images)





Apr. 22, 2014. A man walks over paper cut-outs of butterflies in front of the Primary Cathedral during the homage of the late Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Bogota, Colombia. (Jhon Paz—Xinhua /Landov)





Apr. 19, 2014. Haitian people participate in a voodoo Easter ceremony in Souvenance, a suburb of Gonaives north of Port-au-Prince. (Hector Retamal—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 18, 2014. Relatives mourn during the funeral of Indian Kashmir's main opposition Peoples Democratic Party rural body head (Sarpanch) Mohammad Amin Pandith, in Gulzarpora village in south Kashmir's Awantipora district. (Farooq Khan—EPA)





Apr. 21, 2014. Supporters of Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate for India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), climb over the poles of a temporary tent to get a glimpse of Modi during an election campaign rally at Mathura in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (K. K. Arora—Reuters)





Apr. 21, 2014. Rita Jeptoo of Kenya reacts after finishing in first place in the women's division with an official time of 2:28:57 during the 2014 B.A.A. Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts. (Jared Wickerham—Getty Images)

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Apr. 21, 2014. A burnt section of the Netherlands' Hoge Veluwe National Park near Hoenderloo on a day after a large wildfire destroyed more than 300 hectares. (Robin Van Lonkhuijsen—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 18, 2014. Penitents of the Jesus Yacente brotherhood take part in a Holy Week procession in Zamora, northern Spain. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (Andres Kudacki—AP)





Apr. 18, 2014. Residents reenact Jesus Christ's crucifixion on a hilltop in the Petare shanty town during Holy Week in Caracas, Venezuela. (Ramon Espinosa—AP)





Apr. 18, 2014. Worshippers re-enact the "Stations of the Cross" during a procession on Good Friday in Ourem, central Portugal Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter. (Rafael Marchante—Reuters)





Apr. 18, 2014. Christian worshipers carry a cross during a procession along the Via Dolorosa on Good Friday during Holy Week in Jerusalem's Old City. (Ammar Awad—Reuters)





Apr. 18, 2014. An image of Jesus crucified stands at a hill during the ceremony marking the Apokathelosis, the removal of Christ's body from the Cross, which forms a key part of Orthodox Easter, in a ceremony at the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin in Penteli, north of Athens. (Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 18, 2014. Unidentified women try to comfort the wailing relative of Mohammad Amin Pandit, a pro-India party worker and a rural body head, during his funeral procession in Gulzarpora village. Police in Indian Kashmir say unidentified gunmen shot dead the political worker late Thursday night. (Dar Yasin—AP)





Apr. 18, 2014. A relative mourns during the funeral of Indian Kashmir's main opposition Peoples Democratic Party rural body head (Sarpanch) Mohammad Amin Pandith, in Gulzarpora village in south Kashmir's Awantipora district. (Farooq Khan—EPA)





Apr. 18, 2014. A man walks through a gap between three large ships that were grounded by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. People continue to rebuild their lives five months after Typhoon Haiyan struck the coast on November 8, 2013, leaving more than 6000 dead and many more homeless. (Chris McGrath—Getty Images)





Apr. 18, 2014. Nepalese Mountaineer and Mount Everest avalanche survivor sherpa Tashi Daba is undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of Grandee Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Narendra Shrestha—EPA)

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Apr. 18, 2014. Children play in an irrigation canal, the local swimming hole that runs though Aracataca, the hometown of the late Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez along Colombia's Caribbean coast during the Holy Week holiday. (Ricardo Mazalan—AP)





Apr. 19, 2014. A man stands in the door of the church roof inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem during the Holy Fire ceremony the day before Easter. (Abir Sultan—EPA)





Apr. 19, 2014. Worshippers react to a beam of sunlight filtering from the ceiling as they take part in the Christian Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. (Finbarr O'Reilly—Reuters)





Apr. 19, 2014. Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshippers light candles and pray during the Holy Fire ceremony at the Deir Al-Sultan, the Ethiopian section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem's Old City. (Abir Sultan—EPA)





Apr. 19, 2014. People hold candles during a vigil in Ansan. Students, parents, teachers, and others from the community gathered at a park near Danwon High School to pray for the missing and mourn the dead from the Sewol ferry sinking. (Ben Weller—Zumapress)





April 19, 2014. Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton drives during the qualifying session of the Chinese F1 Grand Prix at the Shanghai International circuit. (Carlos Barria—Reuters)





Apr. 20, 2014. Museum curator Andrew Lam Hon-kin introduces a setup of pictures featuring the late Communist leader Mao Zedong and student protesters during a media tour of the "June 4th Museum" in Hong Kong. (Kin Cheung—AP)





Apr. 20, 2014. The body of Pavel Pavelco, 42, a pro Russia militiaman, one of three people killed last Sunday in a shooting by unknown gunmen at a checkpoint, is carried by pallbearers to a church during a funeral in Slovyansk, Ukraine. (Manu Brabo—AP)





Apr. 22, 2014. Relatives of Pavel Pavlenko, one of three men killed in a shootout days earlier, carry the lid of his coffin, decorated with a loaf of bread, out of his home during a funeral procession in Aleksandrovka, Ukraine. (Mauricio Lima—The New York Times)





Apr. 20, 2014. Flowers from the Netherlands decorate St. Peter's Square as Pope Francis arrives to celebrate an Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the the Vatican. (Andrew Medichini—AP)

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Apr. 21, 2014. A parachute hangs from a tree close to the wreckage of a small airplane in a forest next to an airfield in southwest Finland. The Comp Air 8 plane taking a group of skydivers for an Easter Day jump crashed on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014, killing eight people, police said. (Vesa Moilanen—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 20, 2014. Relatives of passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol sit near the sea at a port in Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea. After more than three days of frustration and failure, divers on Sunday finally found a way into the submerged ferry off South Korea's southern shore, discovering more than a dozen bodies inside the ship. (Lee Jin-man—AP)





Apr. 20, 2014. A security guard keeps watch on one of the large ships that was grounded by Typhoon Yolanda in the coastal area renamed by residents ' Yolanda Village' in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. (Chris McGrath—Getty Images)





Apr. 19, 2014. A woman sits in her home in the coastal area renamed by residents " Yolanda Village" on in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. People continue to rebuild their lives five months after Typhoon Haiyan struck the coast on November 8, 2013, leaving more than 6000 dead and many more homeless. (Chris McGrath—Getty Images)





Apr. 20, 2014. People participate in Easter Sunday mass at Sto. Nino Parish in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. People continue to rebuild their lives five months after Typhoon Haiyan struck the coast on November 8, 2013, leaving more than 6000 dead and many more homeless. (Chris McGrath—Getty Images)





Apr. 20, 2014. The families of Pakistani Bhoja Air flight BH0213 crash victims gather at the crash site on the second anniversary of the disaster in Islamabad. (Farooq Naeem—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 20, 2014. An effigy of Judas is engulfed in fireworks, in the courtyard of the Santa Rosa Xochiac church, in Mexico City, soon after midnight on Easter Sunday. (Rebecca Blackwell—AP)





Apr. 21, 2014. A boy climbs out of a charred shanty as he collects reusable materials after a fire razed through a slum area in Caloocan City, Metro Manila. (Romeo Ranoco—Reuters)





Apr. 21, 2014. Daughter of Ang Kaji Sherpa, one of the victims of the Mount Everest avalanche on April 18, collapses during a cremation ceremony at Syambhu in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Narendra Shrestha—EPA)





Apr. 21, 2014. A woman touches the urn containing the ashes of Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, during a tribute ceremony at the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City. (Ronaldo Schemidt—AFP/Getty Images)

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Apr. 21, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama acts out the line "gnashed their terrible teeth" from the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" during the 136th annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque—Reuters)





Apr. 21, 2014. A Syrian girl collects her belongings from rubble after her building was reportedly destroyed in an air strike by government forces in the northern city of Aleppo. (Baraa Al-Halabi—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 21, 2014. Women carry Orthodox icons during a pro-Russian rally outside the secret service building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk. (Dimitar Dilkoff—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 22, 2014. A Greater Adjutant Stork flies by a ragpicker looking for recyclable items at a garbage dump on Earth Day, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. (Anupam Nath—AP)





Apr. 22, 2014. Residents play with paper cut-outs of butterflies in front of the Primary Cathedral during the homage of the late Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Bogota, Colombia. (Jhon Paz—Xinhua /Landov)





Apr. 22, 2014. A rescue worker changes sheets on a bed at a temporary morgue set up to identify victims of the Sewol ferry accident, at Jindo harbor, South Korea. (Uriel Sinai—The New York Times)





Apr. 22, 2014. A relative of a missing passenger from the sunken Sewol ferry weeps by the sea in Jindo, South Korea. (Uriel Sinai—The New York Times)





Apr. 22, 2014. Lighting flares are released over the sea off Jindo where the capsized passenger ship Sewol sank. The ferry sank last Wednesday on a routine trip south from the port of Incheon to the traditional honeymoon island of Jeju. (Issei Kato—Reuters)





Apr. 22, 2014. A resident gestures during a protest against the death of a man in Pavao-Pavaozinho slum, in the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. (Lucas Landau—Reuters)





Apr. 22, 2014. A Police officer of the Pacifying Police Unit, patrols among the smoke from burning barricades during clashes at the Pavao Pavaozinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Felipe Dana—AP)

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Apr. 22, 2014. A Nepalese Hindu devotee lights an oil lamp during the last day of a Mahayagya, holy rituals that last for seven days, near Pashupatinath temple in Katmandu, Nepal. (Niranjan Shrestha—AP)





Apr. 23, 2014. A woman cries while praying during a candlelight vigil in Ansan, to commemorate the victims of capsized passenger ship Sewol and to wish for the safe return of missing passengers. (Kim Hong-Ji—Reuters)





Apr. 23, 2014. A child hugs one of the 107 crosses that were set up at a symbolical graveyard commemorating the people who died during the recent protest on Kiev's Independent Square, in Prague, Czech Republic. (Filip Singer—EPA)





Apr. 23, 2014. Pro-Ukrainian supporters seen through a Ukrainian flag during a rally in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Ukraine. (Evgeniy Maloletka—AP)





Apr. 23, 2014. Garment workers form a human chain in Dhaka organized by IndustriALL Bangladesh Council on the eve of one year of Rana Plaza tragedy demanding compensation for victims according to the ILO convention. (Zakir Hossain Chowdhury—NurPh)





Apr. 24, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama attends a welcome ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. (Shizuo Kambayashi—AP)





Apr. 24, 2014. Pope Francis is silhouetted as he leaves after his meeting with Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama at the Vatican. (Alessandra Tarantimo—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 24, 2014. A general view of the broken statue after the 30-metre-high, curved wooden cross dedicated to the late John Paul II collapsed in Cevo, Valcamonica, Italy, killing a 21-year-old man. (Filippo Venezia—EPA)





Apr. 24, 2014. The Duchess of Cambridge's legs are seen as she stands inside play equipment while touring a playground at the National Arboretum in Canberra, Australia. (Lukas Coch—EPA)





Apr. 24, 2014. Indian army soldiers patrol along a roadside amongst heavy fog outside a polling station in Sangam. (Tauseef Mustafa—AFP/Getty Images)

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Apr. 24, 2014. An Indian woman leaves after casting her vote in a village near Sawai Madhopur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. With 814 million eligible voters, India is voting in phases over six weeks. Results are expected May 16. (Manish Swarup—AP)





Apr. 24, 2014. The body of Ukrainian councilman Volodymyr Rybak lies in the coffin prior to his funeral after his body was found on Tuesday after his alleged abduction by pro-Russian insurgents in the eastern city of Horlivka, Ukraine. (Sergei Grits—AP)





Apr. 25, 2014. A little girl places a poppy on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia. This year marks the 99th anniversary of Australian forces landing at Gallipoli. (Lukas Coch—EPA)





Apr. 24, 2014. Christ the Redeemer, the giant monument and tourist magnet that looms atop Mount Corcovado, is surrounded by clouds in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Christophe Simon—AFP/Getty Images)





Apr. 23, 2014. Flowers are seen on the desks of students killed in the sunken South Korean ferry 'Sewol', at a classroom of Danwon high school in Ansan. (Yonhap—AFP/Getty Images)