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Pope voices support for virus victims in first live stream prayer
VATICAN CITY, March 8, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Pope Francis expressed solidarity
Sunday with the victims of the novel coronavirus in his first livestreamed
prayer and message from the Vatican.
“I am close through prayer with the people who suffer from the current
coronavirus epidemic,” the 83-year-old pope said in a message recorded at the
Vatican library and aired live on a screen on Saint Peter’s Square before a
small crowd.
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