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Religious services curbed across Mideast over virus fears

by Associated Press
| March 13, 2020 3:30 AM

JERUSALEM (AP) — Religious authorities cancelled or limited weekly prayer gatherings across the Middle East on Friday to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as they encouraged the faithful to pray for those afflicted by the global pandemic.

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