YANGON - A Canadian preacher who claimed that Christians were safe from coronavirus was jailed on Thursday for three months in Myanmar after he and dozens of his followers became infected when he held a banned service.
"If people hold the Bible and Jesus in their hearts, the disease will not come in," he proclaimed in one video to a roomful of faithful."The only person who can cure and give peace in this pandemic is Jesus."
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