MANILA, April 10 — Some Catholic penitents flagellated themselves and prayed outside closed churches in the Philippines to commemorate the death of Jesus on Good Friday, despite strict government orders for people to stay indoors to contain the coronavirus. The capital, Manila, and many parts of...
A Catholic priest dries the feet of a homeless man during a traditional Holy Thursday ceremony at a university that temporirily shelters the homeless amid the lockdown to contain the coronavirus disease , in Manila, Philippines, April 9, 2020. �
The capital, Manila, and many parts of the Catholic-majority Southeast Asian country have been in “enhanced community quarantine”, but that did not stop some devotees from doing their annual penitence for Lent. Covid-19 is the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, which emerged in central China late last year and has spread around the world, infecting some 1.6 million people and killing nearly 100,000 of them.Bishops in Manila suspended services for the Holy Week due to the lockdown, which began in mid-March.
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