10-04-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com

Pope presides over haunting Good Friday procession under lockdown

Pope Francis entered a torch-lit, but hauntingly empty Saint Peter's Square for a Good Friday procession under a lockdown caused by a coronavirus that has claimed 100,000 lives worldwide.The Argentine-born pontiff walked up to his podium flanked by five prison inmates from the hard-hit northern Italian city of Padua and five Vatican doctors and nurses.Earlier, Francis had said that medics and priests who died after becoming infected while looking after COVID-19 victims "gave their lives out of l
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