Police checkpoints leading to the National Shrine of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage in Antipolo City, otherwise known as the Antipolo Cathedral, have been set up as part of the measures to ensure the ban on Lent-related convergence of people will be observed throughout the Holy Week.
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The city government of Antipolo has announced the cancellation of all Lenten activities that would generate mass gatherings in the city this year as part of the measures against Covid-19. In a post on the official Facebook page of Mayor Andrea Bautista-Ynares, the city government said it has cancel
Bishop Crispin B. Varquez (Manila Bulletin File photo)
Borongan Bishop Crispin Varquez said the rising COVID-19 cases in the province have become alarming and more prayers were needed to calm the fears of the people in the province.
“Our current situation now, when many lives have been lost and many continue to suffer because of the COVID-19 pandemic , calls us as a Church to express our faith more earnestly through ardent prayers and sacrifice. The rise of the COVID-19 cases recently in our province is very alarming,” Varquez said over Radio Veritas.
The bishop urged the faithful in the province to take part in the observance on July 20. “Let us join our hands in prayer and offer the sacrifice of fasting to ask for God’s mercy against the COVID-19 pandemic,” Varquez said.