Portuguese priest Nuno Westwood has turned the sunroof of his car into a pulpit to deliver an Easter service to his parishioners, amid a national coronavirus lockdown.
Father Nuno Westwood turned the sunroof of his microcar into a pulpit on Sunday to deliver an Easter service on the move through his parish on the outskirts of Lisbon where the coronavirus has confined people to their homes.
"The idea is, especially at Easter, during this pandemic when people have lost hope a little and are scared, to give them a message of happiness and for them to know they are not alone," he told Reuters."God is with us all, and that's the message we want to convey, if only from a car." Portugal has so far reported 16,585 cases of the new coronavirus, and 504 deaths, a small fraction of the toll in neighbouring Spain.
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