Faithful Ana Fernandez and Raul Rodriguez lais on their knees as they watch an easter mass through social media during a nationwide quarantine due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Caracas, Venezuela April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carolina Cabral
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras led Easter Mass on Sunday from an empty church, offering a sermon that was broadcast over Instagram to hundreds of people quarantined in their homes because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Standing before 510 empty seats at the Immaculate Heart of Mary church in the upscale El Rosal neighborhood of Caracas, Porras' prayers were transmitted by three church associates who among them held four cellphones and a small tablet computer.
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