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Seek post-COVID renewal, Holy Land archbishop urges on Easter Sunday

Seek post-COVID renewal, Holy Land archbishop urges on Easter Sunday

DAN WILLIAMS  WITH Jerusalem emerging from COVID-19 curbs and the faithful flocking there again, Easter Sunday brought a message of renewal from the traditional site of Jesus' death and resurrection. Deserted a year ago after the pandemic hit, the Church of the Holy Sephulchre was attended by dozens of clergymen and worshippers, a turnout enabled by an Israeli vaccination campaign - the fastest in the world - that has driven down infections. Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, voiced hope in his homily for a post-coronavirus world of greater substance and spirituality. "(We are) tempted to run backward,…
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