Cults open to the public resumed Sunday with strict sanitary measures at the evangelical church of the Christian Open Door in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), at the origin of one of the main outbreaks of the new coronavirus in the country in February, according to the church website.
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In the images broadcast live from 9:30 a.m. on the Facebook page of the Evangelical Church, you could see unoccupied chairs between masked worshipers. The capacity was set at 600 people while before the epidemic some 2,000 parishioners could attend worship every Sunday.
Only the faithful with an inscription, controlled by a security team, were able to attend the worship, pronounced by the pastor Samuel Peterschmitt, who had himself contracted the virus at the end of February. During a large week-long evangelical gathering in February, bringing together around 2,000 faithful from several regions of France, many people had been contaminated by Covid-19.
The Christian Open Door, a Protestant evangelical church founded in 1965 and affiliated to the National Council of Evangelicals of France (Cnef), was justified by recalling that " no government recommendation " was in effect at that time and that '' No participant 'had experienced symptoms. The Cnef has recorded 72 deaths from the coronavirus within the evangelical movement, including 31 among the Mulhouse church.
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