Pope guides locked-down world through virtual Easter

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Church doors will be shut and the Vatican sealed off when Pope Francis leads 1.3 billion Catholics in Easter Sunday celebrations held under a worldwide coronavirus lockdown. CatholicChurch Pope Easter PopeFrancis Lockdown Coronavirus

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Fear and confusion in the face of a disease whose toll has unrelentingly climbed towards 100,000 are reshaping society and transforming the way religion is observed.

“We have to respond to our confinement with all our creativity,” Francis said in an interview published by several Catholic newspapers this week.The pope’s virtual prayers are just the starkest example of religious improvisation in the age of social distancing and confinement. The powerful Catholic Church in the Philippines is urging the faithful not to kiss the cross and its Orthodox counterpart in Greece is planning to hold mass behind closed doors for its Easter on April 19.

Prince Charles — the heir to the British throne who was briefly quarantined last month after testing positive for the virus — recorded a reading of the Gospel for Easter Sunday.

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