Maputo — Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, is a key moment in the Christian liturgy, celebrating the date when, according to the New Testament, the religion's founder, Jesus Christ, entered Jerusalem on a donkey, with a crowd paving his route with palm rushes.
But this year, for the first time ever, Mozambique's Christian churches were virtually deserted on Palm Sunday, and no processions were held. The social distancing measures in force to stop the spread of the coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease Covid-19, obliged churches to reduce the believers physically present at Palm Sunday services to a bare minimum.
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