Dreaded uptick worldwide of dead spiritual leaders
- Apr 9, 2020
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Italians back suspending Masses and funerals, divided on closing churches completely
- Mar 31, 2020
A robust 68 percent of Italians said they support the suspension of public Masses to fight the transmission of the coronavirus, with only 23 percent opposed and 9 percent offering no opinion.
Italy okays weddings and baptisms, but warns church not a motive for leaving home
- Mar 30, 2020
The Italian government has issued new regulations for access to religious venues, specifying that weddings and baptisms are permitted for tightly limited groups but that merely going to church is not a legitimate reason to be out of one’s home.
Across Europe, churches offer empty facilities to help fight COVID-19
- Mar 29, 2020
Catholic dioceses and religious orders across Europe are offering to turn church facilities into spaces needed for health care or housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Police raids on Italian churches raise religious freedom concerns
- Mar 29, 2020
Amid Italy’s strict lockdown due to the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, police in recent days have slapped both priests and worshippers gathering at church to pray with citations for breaking quarantine rules, sparking concern among some about limitations this places of freedom of worship.
Pandemic casts spotlight on a nearly forgotten martyr: St. Corona
- Mar 28, 2020
She had become nearly forgotten. Little is known about the young woman who was killed for her Christian faith, presumably in the second century A.D. But now, a pandemic is shedding light on her: St. Corona.
During pandemic, priests work to bridge distance between deceased, family
- Mar 27, 2020
Priests and religious are trying to bridge the forced distance between those who have died from COVID-19 and the people they leave behind.
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