11 April 2020
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- Empty Churches Belie Trump’s Easter Promise, Highlight Science’s Role In Keeping Faithful Safe
Empty Churches Belie Trump’s Easter Promise, Highlight Science’s Role In Keeping Faithful Safe
The coronavirus pandemic has physically atomised the faithful, with lockdown measures sparking unprecedented scenes of clergymen conducting Holy Week services in empty churches and cathedrals across the world. For populist leaders who have exploited religion to rise to power or maintain their political positions, the crisis “could threaten the foundations of their religious support base as well as their discriminatory policies towards religious or ethnic minorities”, noted James Dorsey, senior fellow at RSIS.
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