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From the Beginning of the 20th Century

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From the beginning, religious groups in Argentina complied with the restrictions on movement and assembly, unlike what happened in other Latin American countries, where pressure to open the temples and ignorance of the confinement prevailed. Bishops and pastors organized virtual celebrations and asked their parishioners to respect the confinement, and imams called for Ramadan to be celebrated inside homes. The Secretariat of Cults authorized a group of people of the Jewish confession to carry out ritual baths with the rules of distance and care.

The Bishop of Bahía Blanca recorded three-minute daily homilies addressed to different social sectors, priests gave daily mass through their web pages and the YouTube platform, and the faithful special data intentions to be prayed Crucis de Pascua in April and the 46th youth pilgrimage to the Luján basilica, which gathers thousands of people every year on the first weekend of October, were carried out online . The evangelical churches did the same. "Religion plays a helpful role at this time," the Secretary of Worship said in April. Late in the year, and given the extension of the isolation measures and the progressive opening of various areas of activity, religious leaders began to demand the opening of the temples.

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They discussed it informally with the authorities, expressed it in the media and prepared documents. The request was based on the seriousness of the consequences of isolation for the interior life and mental health, and on the need for worship to resume relationships with God and sustain spiritual values. The role of science was explicitly recognized, and a complementary place was requested for religion: science investigates, religion prays. Let's not forget that the result is always in the hands of God. The same God who orders to go to the doctor is the God who heals. It is necessary to use the greatest intelligence to investigate in science, analyze all the data and propose the best solutions; but surely no less energy must be dedicated to imploring God to assist us with his mercy and put an end to this pandemic, since salvation is in His hands.
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