Mourners and service workers gather near a grave during the funeral of Orthodox deacon Andrei Molchanov, 54, who died after contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a cemetery in Moscow, Russia May 9, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Father Andrei Molchanov, the latest Russian Orthodox priest to die from the novel coronavirus, was buried on Saturday by his heartbroken daughter who said she wished the Moscow church where he served had closed earlier.
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, called in late March for believers to pray at home. However tough government lockdown measures at the end of that month, which closed down restaurants and most stores, and told people to stay at home, did not order churches to shut.
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