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National News COVID-19 takes toll on Catholic clergy in hard-hit countries | Hundreds lost their lives attending to the sick as pandemic surged across the globe The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone. by Associated Press Jul. 17 2021 @ 5:08pm The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone. The dead include an Italian parish priest who brought the ...

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., comments on the federal government's problematic censorship of social media. The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone. The dead include an Italian parish priest who brought the cinema to his small town in the 1950s; a beloved New York pastor who ministered to teens and the homeless; a nun in India who traveled home to bury her father after he died from COVID-19 only to contract the virus herself. In some countries, most of those lost were olde...

Print El coronavirus ha cobrado un alto precio entre los sacerdotes y monjas de la Iglesia católica en todo el mundo, pues ha matado a cientos de ellos en un puñado de países muy afectados. Entre los fallecidos se encuentra un párroco italiano que llevó el cine a su pequeña comunidad en la década de 1950; un entrañable sacerdote neoyorquino que atendía a adolescentes y a personas sin hogar; y una monja de la India que viajó a su país para enterrar a su padre después de que éste muriera a causa del COVID-19, pero que contrajo el virus ella misma.

Exhausted workers, who bring dead bodies for cremation, sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium, in New Delhi, India, on April 24. Delhi has been cremating so many bodies of coronavirus victims that authorities are getting requests to start cutting down trees in city parks, as a second record surge has brought India's tattered healthcare system to its knees. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) In May 2020, the last time I spoke with Mathew Abraham, C.Ss.R, M.D., the director general of the Catholic Health Association of India, he was profoundly concerned about how well India’s public...

Covid-19 claims seven Catholic priests in Indian state In Gujarat, PM Modi's heartland, the health system is collapsing under the weight of the pandemic Burning funeral pyres of Covid-19 victims during a mass cremation in Surat in Gujarat state on April 13. (Photo: AFP) Seven Catholic priests have died of Covid-19 in the space of four days in India’s Gujarat state, one of the worst-hit areas where government and private hospitals are adding more beds as infections spiral out of control.  In one day, April 19, Gujarat reported as many as 7,107 fresh coronavirus cases and 177 deaths. The...