A Virginia pastor who defied warnings about the danger of religious gatherings during the pandemic and vowed to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital” died after contracting Covid-19.
Some see Government bans on large public gatherings as attacks on religious freedom when they are applied to houses of worship.
Despite an appeal by religious leaders for social distancing, a large number of people gathered for Friday prayers around India.
Hundreds of people flouted Louisiana’s COVID-19 ban on gatherings, coming on buses and in personal vehicles to the first of three Sunday services at their church a day after New Orleans police broke up a funeral gathering of about 100 people.
Services from Moscow to Rio go ahead as clerics disregard coronavirus risk