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Brazil Catholics drawn to worship despite downsized services

by Tatiana PollastriMauricio Savarese
| October 12, 2020 1:07 PM

APARECIDA, Brazil (AP) — Inside, there was nothing massive about the Mass: Just 1,000 people were spaced carefully across the pews of a vast basilica that normally holds 35,000 as the Roman Catholic Church tried to protect parishioners from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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