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"But due to lockdown we are not allowed to do that anymore." Imam Sheigh Salieg Isaacs has already prayed at more than a dozen hospital entrances and carparks.      "For now we are doing hospitals only," he told AFP. "But we are also thinking of going to hospices soon and some old age homes." The initiative is a way to express solidarity with patients battling Covid-19 alone, isolated from family and friends in plastic-wrapped hospital wards. "We might not always have something to say but ...

Interfaith prayers for S. African Covid patients, hospital staff AFP 1/18/2021 AFP © RODGER BOSCH "The frontline workers need our support... as much as the sick and the bereaved," said pastor Gerhard de Vries Block Muslims and Christians stand side by side, hands open to the sky or pressed together as they pray for coronavirus patients and healthcare workers in South Africas coastal city of Cape Town. Religious groups of all faiths and backgrounds have taken it in turns to...

Interfaith prayers for SAs COVID-19 patients, hospital staff Religious groups of all faiths and backgrounds have taken it in turns to take part in joint prayers outside hospitals over the past week, a spiritual show of support as the second wave of infections wreaks havoc across the country. Two women in the Covid-19 ward of the Rondebosch Medical Centre join in prayers with people standing outside the build...