President welcomes cancelling of religious services over Covid-19
The ZCC has cancelled its Moria pilgrimage, as the president acknowledges that faith-based organisations ‘agonised’ over their decisions
President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed a decision by inter-faith leaders to cancel their religious services in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus that has infected at least 116 people in SA. The the number of recoveries in the country is not known.
Ramaphosa said the announcements by the Methodist Church that the Good Friday and Easter Sunday services have been cancelled; the Muslim Judicial Council’s decision to cancel the Friday prayer; and the decision by the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) that the annual Moria pilgrimage has been cancelled, “were no doubt reached through great difficulty”...
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