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Coronavirus: Easter Sunday under lockdown captured in pictures – BBC News, BBC News

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Coronavirus: Easter Sunday under lockdown captured in pictures – BBC News, BBC News
        

                                 Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, delivers his Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message behind closed doors amid lockdown measures imposed in Italy, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   Reuters                                                        
Image caption                                      Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, delivers his Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message behind closed doors at St Peter’s Basilica                              

Christians around the world. have been celebrating Easter Sunday, despite many being confined to their homes because of the global coronavirus pandemic.

In an unprecedented virtual message from an eerily empty Vatican, Pope Francis stood before the cameras and prayed for victims of the disease, calling for global solidarity in the fight against the virus.

Elsewhere, churches found some innovative ways to get their messages across and serve parishioners – including with drive-through Communions.

                                 A cardinal from the Basilica Cathedral in Brazil wears a face shield as he gives communion in a drive-through ceremony during an Easter Sunday service amid the coronavirus pandemic in Curitiba, Brazil, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   Getty Images                                                        
Image caption                                      A cardinal from the Basilica Cathedral in Curitiba, Brazil, wears a face shield as he gives Holy Communion at a drive-through ceremony                              
                                 People stand at the gate of a church closed to the public during a mass held on Easter Sunday, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   Getty Images                                                        
Image caption                                      Another minister from the Basilica Cathedral, Edilson Paes, hands out wafers                              
                                 People stand at the gate of a church closed to the public during a mass held on Easter Sunday, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   Reuters                                                        
Image caption                                      People stand at the gate of a church closed to the public during mass in Port-au-Prince, Haiti                              
                                 People stand at the gate of a church closed to the public during a mass held on Easter Sunday, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   Getty Images                                                        
Image caption                                      Rev Brian X Needles live-streams Easter Mass to pictures of parishioners attached to pews at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the US state of New Jersey                              
                                 Cardinal Peter Erdoe holds Easter Sunday Mass in St Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, Hungary, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   EPA                                                        
Image caption                                      No congregants were permitted to attend the service St Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest, Hungary, but it was broadcast live online and on television                              
                                 Cardinal Peter Erdoe holds Easter Sunday Mass in St Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, Hungary, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   Getty Images                                                        
Image caption                                      Pastor George Runyan is filmed and broadcast live as he gives a musical sermon in San Diego, California                              
                                 Easter Sunday Mass is broadcast live on social media from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   Getty Images                                                        
Image caption                                      Easter Sunday Mass was broadcast live on social media from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso                              
                                 Easter Sunday Mass is broadcast live on social media from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, 12 April 2020 Image copyright                   Getty Images                                                        
Image caption                                      Bishop Sebastia Taltavull performs Mass at a deserted cathedral in Palma de Mallorca, Spain                              

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