By Press Association 2021
Pope Francis delivers his Urbi et Orbi blessing after celebrating Easter Mass at St Peter’s Basilica at The Vatican (Filippo Monteforte/AP)
Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with faithful sitting far apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter Sunday conditioned by pandemic precautions.
From Protestant churches in South Korea to St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, worshippers followed national or local regulations aimed at preventing the transmission of coronavirus.
At a hospital in the Lombardy region of Italy, where the pandemic first erupted in the West in February 2020, a hospital gave a traditional dove-shaped Easter cake symbolising peace to each person who lined up to receive a Covid-19 vaccine.
Christians of the world mark Easter amid restrictions imposed during pandemic
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