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After surviving wars and pestilence, religions use technology to beat pandemic

By Angela Moore

May 13 2020 6:23AM

Live-streaming ceremonies and virtual confessionals.

After surviving wars and pestilence, religions use technology to beat pandemic

Throw a global pandemic at the world's religions, and you get confessions via Skype, virtual seders and recitations of the Koran over Facebook. The world's three leading religions have survived famines, plagues, pestilence and wars. Now, in the 21st century shutdown, New York-area Jewish, ...

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