Religious leaders worldwide say they're drawing more worshippers as shuttered churches, mosques, temples and synagogues move services online during the pandemic.
FILE - In this Friday, March 27, 2020 file photo, Pope Francis delivers the Urbi and Orbi prayer in an empty St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. The pontiff likened the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to a storm laying bare illusions that people can be self-sufficient and instead finds "all of us fragile and disoriented" and needing each other's help and comfort.
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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