News headlines today: Mar. 17, 2020RIO DE JANEIRO -- Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, which appears to balance improbably atop Corcovado mountain, has withstood the worst of what the elements could muster for nearly nine decades. Now it, too, is succumbing to the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
Rio seems less marvelous by the day with the creep of the new virus. Firemen began blaring recordings that urge beachgoers to stay home on Monday, one day before Rio’s Gov. Wilson Witzel decreed a state of emergency. They did the same Tuesday, though it was hardly a beach day. The company that administers transport and installations at Rio's Sugarloaf Mountain, another postcard destination that sees 1.5 million visitors annually, already closed shop on Tuesday. Even before the governor's decree, Bondinho Pão de Açúcar had halved the number of passengers on its cable cars, to 32, and begun wiping them down with alcohol after each journey, according to Sandro Fernandes, the company’s CEO.
"What is incorrect is the hysteria, as though it were the end of the world. A nation like Brazil, for example, will only be free when a certain number of people are infected and create antibodies," he told a local radio station, Radio Tupi. “We have to count on the hope that we can find a family that wants to walk around and do something at least, so we can earn something this month,” Alexandre Faria Carbonelli said in the plaza beneath Sugarloaf's cable car. “For guys who work autonomously, don’t have savings, have a family, it’s kind of desperate.”
Are the lights bright enough to distract people from Bolsonaro's lackluster* COVID response? *read - depraved indifference to human life
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BlakandBlack this reminds me of Nicholas Chodowiecki's toleration.
Beautiful ❤️
tffeagles Uh, this is wrong. Jesus is not a billboard people!
Beautiful.. very spiritual
Love it, Great Idea!
Stupendo! Amen!
Did anyone ever get a virus from eating plants?
More than a fantasy and hysteria, Mr. Bolsonaro!
I hope you enjoy everything on your bucket list... life is short, enjoy it..
The US and Canada flags were absent haha
Olha isso Machadinhx_
Amen
Anen Missy
Thats cool
SARC91325469 It’s kind of creepy looking IMO
Bellísimo!
Wow
Amazing! Unifying!! 🙏🏾🌏🌎🌍🙏🏾
bolsonaro is a murderer Bolsonaroacabou
❤️😍😍🇧🇷
Meu país 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
🙏🌍
Brasillllllllllll🙏
Vamos Brasil 🇧🇷 vamos interceder pelos nossos irmãos por todo o globo 🌍🇧🇷🙌
Made me cry
Awesome! Never knew the loved corona so much in Brazil!
yyoongyu Parece aqueles hologramas nos jogos vorazes quando alguém morre
This makes me very emotional 😭 ~ good and bad feelings intertwined ... But ultimately I felt connected and hopeful.
Huuhhh
THANK YOU FROM GREECE
cupidosatanico
Beautiful. Thank you, Brazil.🇧🇷💕
We are all in thus together. One world!!!
Barbara77051620 Jesus is not a billboard.
With God all things are possible! PrayForTheWorld
Creepy!!!
Lindo o nosso Cristo
sean_m_maguire bexmader LanaParrilla
Yaaaaaawn... 😴 Zzzzz zzz.
Beautiful 🙏
God bless us all❤
Keep everyone in Prayers 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
E o teste p corona faço aonde
realSpringP Chills 🌹
AliveKyy
Thought this was a Bible 2 trailer ngl
Beautiful, and true.
Wonderful thank you
I’m shocked ABC is running this!!! I didn’t think they believed in Christ...
So beautiful... our world needs to stand together. 💯🙏💖
Jesus Christ. That shit be lit!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
I wish I could get a picture of the statue with the American flag. This is a really great message, and shows how it has affected everyone across different continents.
God Bless our World!
Stunning 3
🙏🏼
Through Christ all is possible.
That's beautiful
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🙏🙏🙏
Awesome!!! Pray that the world can come together and cure the coronavirus🙏🙏🙏
Bullshit
Very nice
Amen. Makes a valuable point beautifully. 🙏🏻
Except China, I hope.
VerenaLima5 Devo confesssar que foi muito bonito
Best thing to do is pull it down religion haa made the poor people in that country poorer
That’ll stop it
So beautiful and comforting!
realDonaldTrump GOP Pretty weird not one mention this being just a ‘Chinese Virus’ only you tools bags don’t get it!! We are all in this together as one world! Do better!
É hora de nos unimos contra esse vírus que aterroriza nosso planeta. Vamos fazer o máximo que poder para evitamos a propagação do coronavírus ! 🙏🌏
My eyes teared up immediately. This is so moving.
But asians do not believe in the white man jesus nor do the rest of the world, dis you know there are over 120 religion older than jesus christ.
This is heart-rending.
cctorango lougonzalez MattWithAMouth
So nice to see some countries uniting and using the power of love!
unsafealarmgirl
He’a got the whole world in his hands.
There’s massive irony in here somewhere...
Beautiful
wow universal health coverage for Americans doesn't seem like such a bad idea after all
Lindinho
MERICA!!! Oh wait....... yeah.... that tune will prolly change when we have our vaccine, but hey 🤷♂️
Pray to him, believe in him and share this message.
The white nationalist escapist Christianity practiced in the US is not Christianity.
What a brilliant idea 😍
Terrilltf Or continents...
So beautiful. So real. So perfect. So God.
Que Lindo!
Brought tears to my eyes.
Thank you! LOVELY❤🙏
🙏🏼 QueenDenubian
Agora todo mundo procura Cristo. Tá bonito né
Beautiful ❤️
At the end of the day.... Christ the Redeemer is the answer...
HeyTammyBruce
Beautiful
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
hhaoh oaoooho hhog aooahah hoho ooo oooao ogooohhgo ohoo aoaohhhhh
Wow this is so beautiful and tear jerking. We will get through this together.
If only all those 'religious' right would live the words of Jesus (as well as everyone else) - the world would really be a paradise. But they are hypocrites instead.
That’s a statue Cesare Borgia not Yeshua the Messiah.
Cesare Borgia
Beautiful
Chad_Schreiber we should be good now
all because of the wuhan china covid-19 virus mishandling an lack of earily reporting from china
Nice but useless.
Please help the Japanese people Japan is not a rule of law Japanese parliament is not working The law is governed by the Abe administration
Really is lovely.
God heal the world of this plague 🙏🙏🙏
I am muslim God bless you all ❤️❤️
ISN'T THIS BEAUTIFUL? This is what we need to do for one another. LOVE one another. HUMANITY, 1 RACE, 1 PLANET 1 PEOPLE.
Thank you. That's beautiful 💜
Absolutely beautiful!! ❤❤
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Wonderful
So beautiful ❤️🙏🏻
Wow! Thank you Rio!
Creepy.
Ah, pleasant symbolic speech.
GOD BLESS All of Us!
👍🙏🌹
Brilliant
I hope the china is not there.
Stunning!! 🙏🌍🙏🌎🙏🌏
It's a beautiful idea; grateful to those responsible for reminding us the whole world is in this together. We're finally 'at one' about something. 🌎❤️
Only true repentance, which includes baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, can save you. False religion, hypocrisy, nor idols cannot. Repent, for saith the prophet NelsonRussellM, “time is running out!”
Beautiful! Prayer works!
I’m sure ABC news is greatly disturbed by having to place Christ’s name in this story. They would much rather have these images shown on a blank piece of cement if they had it their way. Jesus Christ is the answer to this calamity and chaos. Pray.
They should give him a mock neck instead of deep crew
Beautiful. Never seen Anything like this. Thank you Brazil.
JESUS IS KING JESUS IS GOD HALLELUJAH
aoa haooh hohgoago aohaho
I don’t see the UK flag 🇬🇧 on it anywhere
RealTalkforYah 🤦🏾♀️
Ah...I wondered where ours was !
realDonaldTrump
Shame it won’t stop the virus though.
Beautiful 🇨🇮
Finally, humanity...
I’m in the UK and we go on lockdown today.. this shit is scary. Praying for all of y’all🖤
perfect god bleas world
They put the North Korean flag too lmao 😂
Absolutely beautiful!
Jesus prays for everyone except for China.. typical
That's absolutely beautiful
Não que para os outros seja fácil , mas para nós ficar sem dar um abraço em quem a gente ama tá foda ❤Que Deus tenha misericórdia de nós e do mundo inteiro 🙏🙌Fé Oração e União
Wonderful job who ever did this in Rio
Except they left out all of North America. No Canada, no USA (both very affected by the virus)—but, they made sure to include the DPRK, a country with a very tiny Christian population (1.3%) who isolates itself from the rest of the world. Would Jesus have done that?
WOW! Very comforting. We are the world.
Watch & Pray staysafe 🙏
AMAZING!!!!!
Such beautiful light in a time of darkness. Gracias, Rio!
Beautiful...❤️❤️❤️
Wow.... Beautiful but also kinda sad.
I dont see an american flag on it at all whys that
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🌍 💕
stunning&symbolic,but raising human spirit?Symbolically?Absolutely.My2nd,less idealistic,misty eyed take on it:Wow, I haven’t seen so many bloody”hand prints”on a “savior”.B4all this,we had easier crisis but most conveniently shooed it away,now so many “get it”? Sure hope so...
This is the time to support each other and find a solution together.
Thank you Rio.
♥️♥️♥️
This shit ain’t comforting fam. Looks like the the star of a post-apocalyptic movie
Uh, my Evangelical Christian backed president said it’s a hoax that he has under control. His 10 out of 10 best response ever doesn’t need your prayers because he closed the borders early and totally has this under control. Quit trying to make him look bad by asking for help!
Thank you Brazil for such a thoughtful gesture to bring the world together. Brazil
Amazing how a threat to us all unites humanity
Sweet 🙏🏼all together as one
Pretty colours, useless gesture. Will achieve nothing, about as much as 'thoughts and prayers'. All nations, need to focus on abolishing the 'wet' markets in Asian countries, where Covid19 started. It happened now, it will happen again unless their Govts are held accountable.
No... middle east?
We'll get through this🙏💗
Beautiful ❤️
China corona crises. How about showing some more Syria bombings in Kentucky. FAKE NEWS
Nossa que lindo!
❤🌎🙏 This was absolutely beautiful!
I feel better already
Why is there no flag of dinosaurs?
I love u Brasil
Excellent tribute.
Sad, but beautiful.
We are in this together not just as a nation but as a whole world 🌎 as well. COVID19
Now theres a place that needs cleaning up...Rio
Beautiful!!!
raulveiga We are afraid but we are fighting, everything will be fine!
Beautiful. 💙
I'm not a Christian but i hope I get blessed too
Lindo demais 🇧🇷🇧🇷 orgulho
nasty_woman2 Oh Rio, Rio...
Cool.
Sad 😔.
Beautiful!!!! Rio is on my bucket list 🙂 This situation's kind of given me the motivation to start checking off some of the places on my list, sooner rather than later. Would also love to see the Taj Mahal. Maybe in 2yrs time, if not sooner? 🙏
🇧🇷💔prayTogether
IamBwossy GetVidBot
ActOnClimate climate energy tech climatestrike GreenNewDeal corona GretaThunberg THE EARTH HAVE SPOKEN, SHE IS SICK AND NO ONE IS LISTENING...
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Lights shine on a Neanderthal... another brainwashing
Beautiful!The world is feeling this!!
🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Amazing!
God Bless the world. 🙏
Jesus Christ Superstar
Why did the write everything in English and not Portuguese?
If God, Allah or whatever you turn to because you're scared of the unknown was in charge, this would not have happened. Science is what will save us.
Beautiful. 🇧🇷❤️❤️❤️
That's awesome.
This is lovely thank you . Will retweet.
This is the first positive thing I've seen since this virus started✌
Empire State Building and others should match this -- would be a great symbol.
Beautiful. What else have they lit it up for in the past?
Christ the Redeemer is a statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
Stay away humans. I am that I am is now social distancing.
We’re sorry; Jesus is closed. Please take your religious business elsewhere. Thank you.
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