Local churches and individuals must do more to help and to protect the elderly from loneliness and infection during the coronavirus pandemic.
Vatican calls for creative ways to protect elderly from loneliness
Googling ‘prayer’ has skyrocketed with coronavirus spread, expert says
Google searches for “prayer” have surged worldwide in step with the surge of emerging cases of COVID-19, according to a European researcher.
Service agencies find workarounds for virus-mandated restrictions
In the Seattle Archdiocese, the first U.S. region where the COVID-19 pandemic hit with brute force, ingenuity has been the hallmark.
Across Europe, churches offer empty facilities to help fight COVID-19
Catholic dioceses and religious orders across Europe are offering to turn church facilities into spaces needed for health care or housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Religious find inventive techniques of caring for community in isolation
As people throughout the U.S. self-isolate and retreat from daily life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, priests and women religious have become beacons of hope globally as they mobilize in unconventional ways.
Amid pandemic, health care professionals find support, strength in faith
Amid the pandemic, health care professionals are urged to take special care of their own physical, mental and spiritual health.