MOSCOW: More than 260 million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday (Apr 19), with church leaders urging worshippers to stay at home to ...
MOSCOW: More than 260 million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday , with church leaders urging worshippers to stay at home to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus.
Last week's Easter celebrations took place in empty churches while Pope Francis live-streamed his traditional message from the Vatican as the pandemic that has killed more than 150,000 made mass worship too risky."WE ARE TOGETHER" Russian President Vladimir Putin did not go to a service as usual but visited a chapel at his residence outside Moscow.
Orthodox worshippers hold candles during the Easter midnight mass in front of the golden-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia on April 18, 2020. The annual Holy Fire ceremony took place behind closed doors in the city's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The flame was then taken to Orthodox countries worldwide.In Romania, while churches closed their doors, volunteers and priests went to people's homes handing out loaves of consecrated bread and sharing the holy flame.A number of Orthodox churches opposed the imposition of lockdown measures on their most important holiday.
He said he was praying for"health ... and that we overcome this crisis and people go out in the streets again."
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