Orthodox Easter Services Hit By Virus As Many Stay Home
April 19, 2020
6:10 pm
More than 260 million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, with church leaders urging worshippers to stay at home to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus.
Yet while many watched services online or on television, some sidestepped virus fears to attend churches on the most important date in the Orthodox calendar.
In Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko, who has cast doubt on the seriousness of the pandemic and allowed events such as football matches to go ahead, visited a church without a face mask.
“I don’t approve of those who closed people’s way to church,” he said, quoted by Belta state news agency, …
