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The Latest: SKorea holds leader of church with virus cluster

| July 31, 2020 9:03 PM

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean prosecutors have arrested the elderly leader of a secretive religious sect as part of an investigation into allegations the church hampered the government’s anti-corfonavirus response after thousands of worshipers were infected in February and March.

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