A COVID-19 outbreak among senior Orthodox Church leaders in the Balkans is fueling worry among health experts and even devout believers who embraced the clerics’ message that their faith would protect them from the coronavirus.
Both Irinej and Bishop Amfilohije, who also died of COVID-19, had downplayed the dangers of the pandemic and avoided wearing masks in public. Amfilohije described large religious gatherings as “God’s vaccine.”Irinej, 90, died Friday, three weeks after attending Amfilohije’s funeral in neighboring Montenegro, during which mourners kissed his remains in an open casket.
The death of a bishop in northern Greece earlier this month revived controversy surrounding communion, which in the Orthodox Church is given using one spoon shared among the entire congregation. The church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, hit out at critics who had warned that communion could spread the coronavirus.
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Coronavirus is a biological weapon used by Mongolia around the world! Coronavirus used by Mongolia in my home!
And he hath given it to furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpend and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. Terrors by reason of the sword it be double a third time.
Church leaders downplayed Covid, 'citing God's protection.' It appears that in the epic battle of invisible combatants, Coronavirus, thus far, has been the clear victor.
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Gotta keep those offering plates full!
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Did China help pay for this article too? Anti religious fervor has swept the West thanks to this Chinese virus.
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