Pope Francis embarks on prayer ‘marathon’ against COVID-19

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Pope Francis launched a month-long prayer marathon to hasten the end of the coronavirus pandemic with a prayer at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican before some 150 believers.

The choice of the rosary prayer comes with May traditionally being the month the Catholic Church dedicates to the Virgin Mary.

Francis lamented the “dramatic current situation, charged with suffering and anxiety,” some 16 months after the virus first surfaced in China before swiftly spreading across the globe, killing more than three million to date and wreaking massive economic destruction.

 

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