Korean Church defies odds to comfort patients amid Covid-19
Priests offer psychological and spiritual healing to patients in hospitals despite restrictions on religious services
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A doctor tends to a patient at church-run St. Mary’s Hospital in Seoul. Catholic priests continue to offer psychological and spiritual healing to patients during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo: Facebook)
Catholic priests in South Korea continue to offer psychological and spiritual healing to patients in hospitals including those operated by the Church amid great difficulties during the Covid-19 pandemic, a church official says.
In the Archdiocese of Seoul, priests and religious people have been visiting patients at 29 church-run hospitals and clinics despite those being initially closed to all forms of religious services since South Korea recorded its first Covid-19 case on Jan. 20 last year, said Father Kim Ji-hyung, chairman of Seoul Archdiocese s hospital pastoral committee.