The Italian foreign minister wanted to thank the U.S. government and send a message of hope.
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Italy foreign minister thanks US government, citizens for ‘solidarity’ during coronavirus crisis
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Beauty, drama and pinpoint silence: Easter Triduum memories from Rome
Rome, Italy, Apr 11, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Easter Triduum is looking very different for Catholics around the world, who will be praying from home and attending liturgies only through their TV or computer screens.
The situation is no different in Rome, where even the typically grandiose ceremonies of the pope have been scaled back to just a few participants at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica.
As Christians reflect on the reality of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ during these three momentous days, several Catholics living in Rome have recalled their favorite memories of the Easter Triduum in the Eternal City.
“In contrast with this year, the treasuring of those [past] experiences that I knew I was blessed and grateful to have at the time – that level of gratitude has just found a way to even deepen through this whole experience” of quarantine, Jill Alexy told CNA.
A professor and private guide, she noted that Catholics around the world enter into the solemnity of the liturgies of the Easter Triduum – which last from the evening of Holy Thursday through the evening of Easter Sunday – “but in Rome, it’s just visceral, [the spiritual feeling is] everywhere around you.”
*Holy Thursday*
Alexy said Holy Thursday in Rome gives her the same kind of feeling she used to get trick-or-treating as a kid.
In the center of Rome, like in other cities, after Mass of the Lord’s Supper, people participate in the tradition of visiting seven or more churches to adore Christ in the Eucharist at the altar of repose, where the hosts consecrated at Mass are preserved for use on Good Friday. A tradition from the early Church, it recalls Christ’s command to his apostles to “keep watch” with him in the Garden of Gethsemane.
The altars are typically decorated to look like gardens, with flowers and plants, and the churches are dark except for candles illuminating the altar and tabernacle.
The “treat,” Alexy explained, is getting to “have this quiet moment in this beautiful space.”
“You just have this totally quiet, silent moment with the Eucharist on Holy Thursday,” she said, recalling the back and forth of entering the quiet churches from the buzzing streets.
Paul Floersch, a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Omaha and a third-year student at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, remembered participating in the tradition in 2018 with seminary classmates, priests, sisters, and other faithful.
“To make a pilgrimage from one church to another is a joyous occasion,” he told CNA by email from the US. “The streets are full, almost entirely with people on their way from one altar of repose to another, and I specifically recall a buzz in air indicating that this joyous night was holy indeed – how blessed are we to have received so blessed a Sacrament!”
Ashley and John Noronha, a married couple living in Rome, have two favorite churches to visit on Holy Thursday. One is the Church of Santissima Trinità, where they said a “delicate fragrance of lilies” fills the space.
The white flowers point “to an experience of mystical beauty,” they said. “Candles burn on wall sconces and on the altar, as the sounds of the live angelic-like choir fill the darkness. It’s as though the darkness, which represents the great act of injustice that we remember that night, is overcome by light and sound, which penetrate the soul and take you right to the Garden of Gethsemane and the Upper Room.”
The Noronhas’ second favorite church is Santa Maria dell’Orto in Trastevere, which they said “gives the concept of catching ‘a glimpse of heaven on earth’ a whole new meaning.”
For the occasion, the church places on the altar a centuries-old structure called the “macchina delle quarant’ore,” which is made of carved and giltwood and on which are placed 144 candles.
Alexy said: “the tremendous beauty, the remarkable drama of the whole event of the ‘macchina delle quarant’ore’, the experience it provides on Holy Thursday is utterly transcendent.”
“It feels like you’ve just been whisked into the spirit of Good Friday and the fasting that is to come until the Easter Vigil.”
*Good Friday*
One beloved Good Friday tradition in Rome is to visit the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, where people may venerate relics of the true cross. In another Roman church, the Basilica of Santa Prassede, there is the pillar on which Jesus was scourged.
Another relic of Christ’s passion is the holy stairs. The holy stairs were brought to Rome by St. Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine, and are believed to be the stairs Jesus ascended on his way to stand trial before Pontius Pilate.
Alexy explained that, though the staircase and the chapel which encases it are not widely known today, “in the past, the holy stairs were the focal point of people coming to Rome.”
“Pilgrims would walk all across Europe to come to Rome to see the tombs of the apostles Peter and Paul, to visit with the martyrs at the 40 Station Churches of Rome, but then especially to offer their filial devotion to Christ on the cross and to go up these steps on their knees,” she said.
The holy stairs can be visited year-round, but Alexy said she always tries to go around 3pm, the hour of Jesus’ death, on Good Friday, often bringing along her students.
And though the wait is hours-long, Alexy said that “getting to go up the holy stairs on my knees every year is getting to have such a close connection with the historical reality of Christ, which becomes the actual reality of the passion we live in these three days.”
Another much-anticipated Holy Week tradition is the Good Friday Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum, led by the pope.
“I can remember the first time I went as a journalist, inside the Colosseum with the media. Being able to look out on each group of people as they carried the cross from station to station,” Joan Lewis, 79, recalled. “What an awesome, awesome experience.”
Lewis, who works for EWTN and has previously been employed at the Vatican, has lived in Rome for more than 40 years. She estimates she has attended hundreds of papal liturgies and Masses.
Something she recalls from Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum is seeing “the faithful so recollected.”
“I think that’s one of the things that always struck me from so many of the papal events,” she told CNA.
“As massive as the crowds were, with huge numbers of people, for Holy Week I always sensed a very strong faith. That people were [in Rome] not just to see the pope but that it was Holy Week, the Triduum, Easter Sunday: The saddest and yet the most joyful days of the year for any Christian.”
John and Ashely Noronha recalled the same experience. “The Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum is always packed – shoulder to shoulder – with people arriving hours in advance to claim their places,” they said.
“But when the meditation on the passion of our Lord begins, annually there’s another fascinating phenomenon that occurs,” they noted. “It’s when tens of thousands of people who have been standing for hours, fall into a deep prayerful contemplation in pin-drop silence.”
*Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday:*
The Triduum culminates with the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday, when many catechumens are received into the Catholic faith and receive the sacraments for the first time.
Eamonn Clark, 27, is a theology student at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum). He once attended the Easter Vigil at the 5th-century Roman Basilica of Santa Sabina. As a reader, he was part of the procession into the dark church at the start of Mass.
“I just thought, wow, for 1,600 years people have been doing this exact liturgy in this exact spot,” Clark told CNA, saying he was thinking about “all of the catechumens who were received in this place, and all the papal liturgies, and all the development of the penitential rites of the Church [which] happened here and I’m getting to be involved in that.”
For Lewis, attending the Easter Sunday Mass with the now canonized popes Paul VI and John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square “was just so meaningful.”
“The joy and the beauty and the flowers. I don’t think I’d ever seen so many flowers in my life,” she said. “Whether the pope was just a little white dot, or you were close enough to see his face it was always an awesome experience.”
Lewis said she was not sure exactly what Pope Francis’ liturgies at the Vatican would look like this year, though she knew they would still “have the value it would have if there were 10,000 people present.”
For Alexy, who has also spent time in the Holy Land, for Easter, there is no place like Rome.
“I’ve loved this experience of walking the three days [of the Easter Triduum] for a long time, but I never knew how tangible and life changing it could be until I experienced it in this city,” she said. Reported by CNA 2 days ago.
The situation is no different in Rome, where even the typically grandiose ceremonies of the pope have been scaled back to just a few participants at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica.
As Christians reflect on the reality of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ during these three momentous days, several Catholics living in Rome have recalled their favorite memories of the Easter Triduum in the Eternal City.
“In contrast with this year, the treasuring of those [past] experiences that I knew I was blessed and grateful to have at the time – that level of gratitude has just found a way to even deepen through this whole experience” of quarantine, Jill Alexy told CNA.
A professor and private guide, she noted that Catholics around the world enter into the solemnity of the liturgies of the Easter Triduum – which last from the evening of Holy Thursday through the evening of Easter Sunday – “but in Rome, it’s just visceral, [the spiritual feeling is] everywhere around you.”
*Holy Thursday*
Alexy said Holy Thursday in Rome gives her the same kind of feeling she used to get trick-or-treating as a kid.
In the center of Rome, like in other cities, after Mass of the Lord’s Supper, people participate in the tradition of visiting seven or more churches to adore Christ in the Eucharist at the altar of repose, where the hosts consecrated at Mass are preserved for use on Good Friday. A tradition from the early Church, it recalls Christ’s command to his apostles to “keep watch” with him in the Garden of Gethsemane.
The altars are typically decorated to look like gardens, with flowers and plants, and the churches are dark except for candles illuminating the altar and tabernacle.
The “treat,” Alexy explained, is getting to “have this quiet moment in this beautiful space.”
“You just have this totally quiet, silent moment with the Eucharist on Holy Thursday,” she said, recalling the back and forth of entering the quiet churches from the buzzing streets.
Paul Floersch, a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Omaha and a third-year student at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, remembered participating in the tradition in 2018 with seminary classmates, priests, sisters, and other faithful.
“To make a pilgrimage from one church to another is a joyous occasion,” he told CNA by email from the US. “The streets are full, almost entirely with people on their way from one altar of repose to another, and I specifically recall a buzz in air indicating that this joyous night was holy indeed – how blessed are we to have received so blessed a Sacrament!”
Ashley and John Noronha, a married couple living in Rome, have two favorite churches to visit on Holy Thursday. One is the Church of Santissima Trinità, where they said a “delicate fragrance of lilies” fills the space.
The white flowers point “to an experience of mystical beauty,” they said. “Candles burn on wall sconces and on the altar, as the sounds of the live angelic-like choir fill the darkness. It’s as though the darkness, which represents the great act of injustice that we remember that night, is overcome by light and sound, which penetrate the soul and take you right to the Garden of Gethsemane and the Upper Room.”
The Noronhas’ second favorite church is Santa Maria dell’Orto in Trastevere, which they said “gives the concept of catching ‘a glimpse of heaven on earth’ a whole new meaning.”
For the occasion, the church places on the altar a centuries-old structure called the “macchina delle quarant’ore,” which is made of carved and giltwood and on which are placed 144 candles.
Alexy said: “the tremendous beauty, the remarkable drama of the whole event of the ‘macchina delle quarant’ore’, the experience it provides on Holy Thursday is utterly transcendent.”
“It feels like you’ve just been whisked into the spirit of Good Friday and the fasting that is to come until the Easter Vigil.”
*Good Friday*
One beloved Good Friday tradition in Rome is to visit the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, where people may venerate relics of the true cross. In another Roman church, the Basilica of Santa Prassede, there is the pillar on which Jesus was scourged.
Another relic of Christ’s passion is the holy stairs. The holy stairs were brought to Rome by St. Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine, and are believed to be the stairs Jesus ascended on his way to stand trial before Pontius Pilate.
Alexy explained that, though the staircase and the chapel which encases it are not widely known today, “in the past, the holy stairs were the focal point of people coming to Rome.”
“Pilgrims would walk all across Europe to come to Rome to see the tombs of the apostles Peter and Paul, to visit with the martyrs at the 40 Station Churches of Rome, but then especially to offer their filial devotion to Christ on the cross and to go up these steps on their knees,” she said.
The holy stairs can be visited year-round, but Alexy said she always tries to go around 3pm, the hour of Jesus’ death, on Good Friday, often bringing along her students.
And though the wait is hours-long, Alexy said that “getting to go up the holy stairs on my knees every year is getting to have such a close connection with the historical reality of Christ, which becomes the actual reality of the passion we live in these three days.”
Another much-anticipated Holy Week tradition is the Good Friday Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum, led by the pope.
“I can remember the first time I went as a journalist, inside the Colosseum with the media. Being able to look out on each group of people as they carried the cross from station to station,” Joan Lewis, 79, recalled. “What an awesome, awesome experience.”
Lewis, who works for EWTN and has previously been employed at the Vatican, has lived in Rome for more than 40 years. She estimates she has attended hundreds of papal liturgies and Masses.
Something she recalls from Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum is seeing “the faithful so recollected.”
“I think that’s one of the things that always struck me from so many of the papal events,” she told CNA.
“As massive as the crowds were, with huge numbers of people, for Holy Week I always sensed a very strong faith. That people were [in Rome] not just to see the pope but that it was Holy Week, the Triduum, Easter Sunday: The saddest and yet the most joyful days of the year for any Christian.”
John and Ashely Noronha recalled the same experience. “The Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum is always packed – shoulder to shoulder – with people arriving hours in advance to claim their places,” they said.
“But when the meditation on the passion of our Lord begins, annually there’s another fascinating phenomenon that occurs,” they noted. “It’s when tens of thousands of people who have been standing for hours, fall into a deep prayerful contemplation in pin-drop silence.”
*Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday:*
The Triduum culminates with the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday, when many catechumens are received into the Catholic faith and receive the sacraments for the first time.
Eamonn Clark, 27, is a theology student at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum). He once attended the Easter Vigil at the 5th-century Roman Basilica of Santa Sabina. As a reader, he was part of the procession into the dark church at the start of Mass.
“I just thought, wow, for 1,600 years people have been doing this exact liturgy in this exact spot,” Clark told CNA, saying he was thinking about “all of the catechumens who were received in this place, and all the papal liturgies, and all the development of the penitential rites of the Church [which] happened here and I’m getting to be involved in that.”
For Lewis, attending the Easter Sunday Mass with the now canonized popes Paul VI and John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square “was just so meaningful.”
“The joy and the beauty and the flowers. I don’t think I’d ever seen so many flowers in my life,” she said. “Whether the pope was just a little white dot, or you were close enough to see his face it was always an awesome experience.”
Lewis said she was not sure exactly what Pope Francis’ liturgies at the Vatican would look like this year, though she knew they would still “have the value it would have if there were 10,000 people present.”
For Alexy, who has also spent time in the Holy Land, for Easter, there is no place like Rome.
“I’ve loved this experience of walking the three days [of the Easter Triduum] for a long time, but I never knew how tangible and life changing it could be until I experienced it in this city,” she said. Reported by CNA 2 days ago.
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US close to passing Italy coronavirus death toll after seeing 2,000 deaths in a day
The United States is nearing a grim milestone in the fight against the coronavirus as it is close to passing Italy to become the country with the most deaths.
Reported by FOXNews.com 2 days ago.
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US now has more coronavirus deaths than any other country, but the worst of epidemic may not be far off
The U.S. has suffered more fatalities from the coronavirus than any other country, including Italy, which has been an epicenter.
Reported by USATODAY.com 2 days ago.
Reported by USATODAY.com 2 days ago.
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U.S. coronavirus deaths highest in world exceeding Italy: Reuters tally
U.S. deaths due to the coronavirus surpassed 19,600 on Saturday, the highest reported number in the world, according to a Reuters tally, although there are signs the pandemic might be nearing a peak.
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U.S. surpasses Italy for most confirmed coronavirus deaths
The United States on Saturday surpassed Italy for the most confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the world, a figure experts have called ‘an underestimation.’ The news comes as Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said he hopes for “a real degree of normality” by November. The nation’s governors have asked Congress for $500 billion […]
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Turin Shroud, to boost hope, on special Holy Saturday view
VATICAN CITY (AP) —
The Turin Shroud, a burial cloth some believe covered Jesus and which has links to a 16th-century plague in northern Italy, was put on special view for faithful worldwide through video streaming on Holy Saturday to inspire hope amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Pope Francis has hailed the initiative by the Turin archbishop, saying making it visible meets the requests of the faithful who are suffering through the COVID-19 outbreak. Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia says he received thousands of requests from persons young and old to be able to view it remotely.
The linen, kept behind bulletproof glass in a Turin chapel, is shown to the public only on very special occasions.
As a TV camera showed the 14-foot-long (four-meter-long) cloth in its showcase, Nosiglia opened prayers, noting Holy Saturday marks the wait for Easter, when Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead. He said people today “await to be liberated from the pandemic” causing so many deaths, and said the shroud “opens hearts to faith and hope.”
The archbishop read aloud a letter from Francis, in which the pontiff expressed appreciation for "this gesture, which meets the request of the faithful people of God, so harshly proved by the coronavirus pandemic.”
Francis also wrote that “in the face of the man of the shroud, we see also the faces of so many ill brothers and sisters, especially those more alone, and those less cared for, but also all the victims of wars and violence, of slavery and of persecution.”
Nosiglia then pressed one of his hands against the glass case and prayed before the cloth.
Hours later, Saturday night at the Vatican, Francis was scheduled to lead an Easter vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, without the rank-and-file as part of coronavirus containment... Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 days ago.
The Turin Shroud, a burial cloth some believe covered Jesus and which has links to a 16th-century plague in northern Italy, was put on special view for faithful worldwide through video streaming on Holy Saturday to inspire hope amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Pope Francis has hailed the initiative by the Turin archbishop, saying making it visible meets the requests of the faithful who are suffering through the COVID-19 outbreak. Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia says he received thousands of requests from persons young and old to be able to view it remotely.
The linen, kept behind bulletproof glass in a Turin chapel, is shown to the public only on very special occasions.
As a TV camera showed the 14-foot-long (four-meter-long) cloth in its showcase, Nosiglia opened prayers, noting Holy Saturday marks the wait for Easter, when Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead. He said people today “await to be liberated from the pandemic” causing so many deaths, and said the shroud “opens hearts to faith and hope.”
The archbishop read aloud a letter from Francis, in which the pontiff expressed appreciation for "this gesture, which meets the request of the faithful people of God, so harshly proved by the coronavirus pandemic.”
Francis also wrote that “in the face of the man of the shroud, we see also the faces of so many ill brothers and sisters, especially those more alone, and those less cared for, but also all the victims of wars and violence, of slavery and of persecution.”
Nosiglia then pressed one of his hands against the glass case and prayed before the cloth.
Hours later, Saturday night at the Vatican, Francis was scheduled to lead an Easter vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, without the rank-and-file as part of coronavirus containment... Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 days ago.
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United States Now Has More Coronavirus Deaths Than Any Other Country
The United States has surpassed Italy to become the country with the most coronavirus-related deaths int he world. As of Saturday afternoon (April 11), there have been 19,833 deaths in the U.S., compared to the 19,468 deaths in Italy. Thankfully, Dr. Anthony Fauci believes that social distancing has been helping and the number of projected [...]
Reported by Just Jared 2 days ago.
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U.S. coronavirus deaths top 20,000, highest in world exceeding Italy: Reuters tally
U.S. deaths due to the coronavirus surpassed 20,000 on Saturday, the highest reported number in the world, according to a Reuters tally, although there are signs the pandemic might be nearing a peak.
Reported by Reuters 2 days ago.
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Reaching grim milestone, United States logs world's highest coronavirus death toll
The United States surpassed Italy on Saturday to become the country with the highest number of recorded coronavirus deaths, reporting more than 19,600 fatalities since the outbreak began, according to a Reuters tally.
Reported by Reuters 2 days ago.
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Italy begins to grapple with how to ease virus restrictions
SOAVE, Italy (AP) — With warmer weather beckoning, Italians are straining against a strict lockdown to halt the coronavirus that is just now showing signs of ebbing at the end of five weeks of mass isolation.
Italy was the first Western democracy to be hit by the virus, and it has been leading the official global death toll with 19,468 victims through Saturday. Now it is likely to set an example of how to lift broad restrictions that have imposed the harshest peacetime limits on personal freedom and shut down all nonessential industry.
Right now, schools are closed and children are not permitted to play in parks. Walks outdoors are limited to a distance of 200 meters (less than a quarter-mile) and any excursion not strictly a matter of necessity risks hefty fines.
The official line is patience with measures that have shown success in slowing the virus spread, until there is a clear decline in the number of new cases. Still, officials have begun grappling with the question of how to manage social distancing on mass transit, re-open ordinary commerce and relaunch manufacturing without risking another peak.
The so-called Phase II is being described as a cautious reopening, as society continues to live alongside the virus until a vaccine can be developed, perhaps in 12 to 18 months.
“We obviously don’t want to delude ourselves that everything will change,” Premier Giuseppe Conte told Italians this week.
On Friday, Conte extended the nationwide lockdown through May 3. That includes all nonessential industry, after which, “I hope we can start again with caution and gradually — but restart,” he said.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with health... Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 days ago.
Italy was the first Western democracy to be hit by the virus, and it has been leading the official global death toll with 19,468 victims through Saturday. Now it is likely to set an example of how to lift broad restrictions that have imposed the harshest peacetime limits on personal freedom and shut down all nonessential industry.
Right now, schools are closed and children are not permitted to play in parks. Walks outdoors are limited to a distance of 200 meters (less than a quarter-mile) and any excursion not strictly a matter of necessity risks hefty fines.
The official line is patience with measures that have shown success in slowing the virus spread, until there is a clear decline in the number of new cases. Still, officials have begun grappling with the question of how to manage social distancing on mass transit, re-open ordinary commerce and relaunch manufacturing without risking another peak.
The so-called Phase II is being described as a cautious reopening, as society continues to live alongside the virus until a vaccine can be developed, perhaps in 12 to 18 months.
“We obviously don’t want to delude ourselves that everything will change,” Premier Giuseppe Conte told Italians this week.
On Friday, Conte extended the nationwide lockdown through May 3. That includes all nonessential industry, after which, “I hope we can start again with caution and gradually — but restart,” he said.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with health... Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 days ago.
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US coronavirus death toll tops Italy’s as world’s worst
New York suffers a further 783 fatalities over the past 24 hours
Reported by FT.com 2 days ago.
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Coronavirus update: US deaths near 20,000, beyond Italy, UK nears 10,000 mortalities
Read more on https://www.fxstreet.com
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In grim milestone, United States logs world's highest coronavirus death toll
The United States surpassed Italy on Saturday as the country with the highest reported coronavirus death toll, recording more than 20,000 deaths since the outbreak began, according to a Reuters tally.
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US Surpasses Italy For Most Officially Reported Coronavirus Deaths
Over 20,000
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U.S. death toll overtakes Italy's as the Midwest braces
CHICAGO â The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday at more than 19,700, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in victims and moved to snuff out smoldering hot spots of contagion before they erupt.
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U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Tops Italy’s as the Midwest Braces for Potential Surge
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Andrea Bocelli will livestream Easter concert from Milan cathedral
CNA Staff, Apr 11, 2020 / 01:50 pm (CNA).- Famed Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli will livestream on Easter Sunday a solo concert from the Santa Maria Nascente Cathedral in Milan. The performer says he aims to send a message of hope, love, and healing to the world amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
“I believe in the strength of praying together; I believe in the Christian Easter, a universal symbol of rebirth that everyone – whether they are believers or not – truly needs right now,” Bocelli said in a statement about the concert.
“Thanks to music, streamed live, bringing together millions of clasped hands everywhere in the world, we will embrace the wounded planet’s pulsing heart” Bocelli said, “on the day in which we celebrate the trust in a life that triumphs.
The singer, a practicing Catholic who has sold more than 90 million albums around the world, was invited to perform the concert by the city of Milan and cathedral administrators. The cathedral will be nearly empty during Bocelli’s performance. The Milan church is the largest in Italy; St. Peter’s Basilica, which is larger, is in the Vatican City State.
Bocelli is expected to perform a collection of religious pieces, in a performance he said will be “an occasion to pray together through music.”
The Andrea Bocelli Foundation has in recent weeks raised money to support hospitals treating coronavirus patients. The performance will take place at 9 p.m. in Milan, 1 p.m on the east coast of the U.S.
“It will be a joy to witness it, in the Duomo, during the Easter celebration which evokes the mystery of birth and rebirth,” Bocelli said of the concert.
Reported by CNA 2 days ago.
“I believe in the strength of praying together; I believe in the Christian Easter, a universal symbol of rebirth that everyone – whether they are believers or not – truly needs right now,” Bocelli said in a statement about the concert.
“Thanks to music, streamed live, bringing together millions of clasped hands everywhere in the world, we will embrace the wounded planet’s pulsing heart” Bocelli said, “on the day in which we celebrate the trust in a life that triumphs.
The singer, a practicing Catholic who has sold more than 90 million albums around the world, was invited to perform the concert by the city of Milan and cathedral administrators. The cathedral will be nearly empty during Bocelli’s performance. The Milan church is the largest in Italy; St. Peter’s Basilica, which is larger, is in the Vatican City State.
Bocelli is expected to perform a collection of religious pieces, in a performance he said will be “an occasion to pray together through music.”
The Andrea Bocelli Foundation has in recent weeks raised money to support hospitals treating coronavirus patients. The performance will take place at 9 p.m. in Milan, 1 p.m on the east coast of the U.S.
“It will be a joy to witness it, in the Duomo, during the Easter celebration which evokes the mystery of birth and rebirth,” Bocelli said of the concert.
Reported by CNA 2 days ago.
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U.S. Surpasses Italy In Total COVID-19 Deaths
The United States is now the country with the most COVID-19-related deaths. More than 20,000 Americans have now lost their lives to the disease and more than a half a million have tested positive.
Reported by NPR 2 days ago.
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