Pictures of the week

Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see. 

This week's images include Orthodox Christian Holy Week traditions in a Romanian village; tree-climbing goats in Morocco and photographers preparing for the blooming of cherry blossoms in Washington. 

This gallery contains photos from the week of March 31-April 6, 2018. 

A woman lights candles next to a relative's grave at dawn in Copaciu, southern Romania, Thursday, April 5, 2018. On Maundy Thursday during the holy week of Easter, Orthodox Christians in small southern Romanian villages go to local graveyards before sunrise as part of a centuries-old ritual, light candles and small fires, release incense and leave small bags of food on the ground or offer them with other people. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Relatives mourn during the funeral for Hamdan Abu Amsha, 23, at the family's house in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 31, 2018. Israel will target "terror organizations" in Gaza if violence along the territory's border with Israel drags on, the chief military spokesman warned Saturday, a day after thousands of Palestinians staged protests near the border fence. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Protesters listen to speeches as they rally for a march to the 71st Precinct on Empire Boulevard to protest Wednesday's fatal police shooting of Saheed Vassell, a 34-year-old father of a teenage son, Thursday, April 5, 2018, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Tree-climbing goats feed on an Argania Spinosa, known as an Argan tree, in Essaouira, southwestern Morocco, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. By eating the fruit and spitting out the seeds, the goats help in the process of manufacturing Argan oil. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Lightning strikes near the Medical Center early Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Houston. Strong winds that swept through the Houston area, caused damage including a hangar that collapsed at one of the city's airports, damaging planes and scattering debris. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and his lawyer Cristiano Zanin leave the Lula Institute building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, April 5, 2018. Federal judge Sergio Moro on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for da Silva, a major blow for the once wildly popular leader who was trying to mount a political comeback ahead of October's elections. (AP Photo/Marcelo Chello)

Former South African President Jacob Zuma sits in the dock at the High Court in Durban, South Africa, Friday, April 6, 2018. Zuma appeared briefly in court to face 16 charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering, but the case was postponed until June 8, the Durban High Court announced Friday. (Nic Bothma / Pool via AP)

Seen through glass, school children pose for photos in front of a portrait of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the Mandela House Museum in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, April 5, 2018. Madikizela-Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist and ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, who died earlier this week after a long illness, will be remembered at a memorial service on April 11, with her funeral three days later. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

People wear white masks in support of Catalonian politicians jailed on charges of sedition and condemning the arrest of Catalonia's former president, Carles Puigdemont, in Germany, during a protest in Figures, Spain, Thursday, April. 5, 2018. A German court has ruled that former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont can be released on bail pending a decision on his possible extradition to Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A boy says goodbye to a friend through the windshield of a bus that will carry him to Mexico City from the sports club where Central American migrants traveling with the annual "Stations of the Cross" caravan had been camping out in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico, Thursday, April 5, 2018. Migrants in the caravan that drew criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump began packing up their meager possessions and boarding buses to the Mexican capital and the nearby city of Puebla. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A migrant walks by tents in a makeshift camp along the Canal Saint Denis, in Paris, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Photographers line up along the edge of the Tidal Basin in Washington to shoot the blossoming cherry trees at sunrise, Thursday, April 5, 2018. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.