In a pandemic, religion can be a balm and a risk
BEIRUT—Down on Earth, the coronavirus outbreak was felling lives, livelihoods and normalcy. A nation-spanning blessing seemed called for. So up went a priest in a small airplane, rumbling overhead at an epidemiologically safe distance from the troubles below, wielding a sacred golden vessel from a cockpit-turned-pulpit.Before his flight over Lebanon,…
bubmagMarch 25, 2020