On Good Friday, Jerusalem archbishop urges prayer for the suffering and dying

Reuters

JERUSALEM, April 10 (Reuters) - On a sombre and quiet Good Friday in Jerusalem, the Vatican's apostolic administrator in the Holy Land called for prayer for people suffering and dying from the coronavirus.

"We are celebrating Good Friday, the commemoration of the death of Jesus, under very difficult circumstances," Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa said outside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection. (Reporting by Stephen Farrell, Editing by Rami Ayyub)