Pope delivers weekly address via livestream
10 March, 2020
Pope Francis expressed solidarity on Sunday with the victims of the novel coronavirus found in his primary livestreamed prayer from the Vatican.
The disease raging across Italy forced the 83-year-old pontiff to break with centuries of tradition and revert to technology to provide his Angelus Prayer and weekly message to the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics.
The Vatican said Pope Francis was following the orders of Italian authorities who wished to keep down the number of folks who usually converge on Saint Peter’s Square to catch a glimpse of the pontiff at his Vatican window.
“I am close through prayer with the people who suffer from the existing coronavirus epidemic,” the 83-year-good old pope stated in a message recorded at the Vatican library.
His address was aired go on a screen before a smaller than usual group on the square and via the Vatican webpage to the wider environment.
“I join my buddy bishops in encouraging the faithful to live this difficult point in time with the strength of faith, the certainty of expectation and the fervor of charity,” the pope explained.
Source: the-japan-news.com
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