From the Vatican, to the village church, to mosques and temples, shuttered places of worship are streaming religious services for a global audience during the pandemic.
FILE - Ahmad Kamel lifts his son Yusuf Kamel, 2, as his wife Nadia Chaouch sits next to them as the family watches a live stream of previous day's Taraweeh prayer from the nearly empty Muslim Association of Puget Sound mosque as they wait to break the Ramadan daily fast in their home during the coronavirus outbreak in Seattle.
At Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, prayers went online as throngs of worshippers disappeared. The three daily Jewish prayers were broadcast on several platforms, garnering millions of views from around the world, according to Yohanna Bisraor, a spokeswoman for the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which administers the site.
In Nara, Japan, priests at Todaiji Buddhist temple prayed and chanted to drive out the coronavirus in a livestreamed event. “People in general, I think, are looking for more meaning and spirituality in the midst of all this,” Suleiman said."So I think there’s just a general increase in religiosity and consumption of religious content.”
Tom Daniels, who grew up in Yoder and has retired in Oakland, California, edits video of the pastor of Smyrna United Church of Christ giving a sermon from her home, of the organist playing in the empty church and other clips. He uploads it to YouTube and has seen a bump in traffic. Speaking to a camera"is a challenge, of course, but nothing the papacy is unprepared for,” Bruni said.
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