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Tehran, 31 March_ Churchgoers in many countries of the world ignore physical distancing advice and keep holding religious services despite the coronavirus pandemic, a report says.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Church services from Moscow to Rio go ahead as clerics disregard the coronavirus risk and insist on keeping the church doors open, The Guardian reported Monday.
Sunday services were held at some of Russia’s largest religious sites after Orthodox church leaders said they were an expression of religious freedom.
Dozens of parishioners, many of them elderly, crowded into Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg to receive communion. Earlier this month, the cathedral came under fire for continuing to exhibit a relic of John the Baptist despite fears that visitors kissing the exhibit could hasten the spread of coronavirus.
In Romania and Georgia, two countries with strongly Orthodox Christian populations, there has been consternation over the insistence of some priests on continuing to use a shared spoon for the communion ritual.
In virus-hit Louisiana, hundreds of worshippers attended services on Sunday, flouting a ban on large gatherings. An estimated 500 people of all ages filed inside the Life Tabernacle church in Central, a city of nearly 29,000 outside Baton Rouge.
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