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  • Art Menendez (left) and Javern Carothers, of Costa Mesa, Calif., raise their hands in prayer during the Surf City Alive Easter sunrise service in Huntington Beach, Calif. (Orange County Register via Associated Press)

    Christians across the nation, around the world celebrate Easter

    As the sun rose Sunday on an old Moravian cemetery in North Carolina, 310 musicians with trumpets, tubas and trombones played in unison while thousands sang, "Hallelujah, praise the Lord" in an Easter scene mostly unchanged since before the Revolutionary War.

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  • "To have 8,000 to 10,000 people come together like this in a worshipful atmosphere is just remarkable," said I.B. Southerland, a Moravian church member who organized and deployed about 160 ushers who kept the overflow crowds moving through the narrow streets and paths of the cemetery known as God's Acre.

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