EL Savador President Calls For Prayers Against COVID-19
May 23, 2020
12:48 pm
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has called on citizens to pray collectively for the end of the novel coronavirus pandemic on Sunday.
Believers should join in prayer in their homes at 2 p.m. local time (2000 GMT), the president said on Facebook on Friday.
Salvadorans will ask God to βheal our land and allow us to defeat the pandemic which is battering the whole world,β Bukele said.
The National Prayer Day was instituted through a presidential decree, Bukele said, but added that the prayers were βvoluntaryβ in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
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