As COVID rages in Brazil, almost 500 Catholic priests infected
9/1/20
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from CRUX,
8/31/20:
At least 447 priests have been infected with the novel coronavirus in Brazil since March and 22 of them have died, according to the country’s National Commission of Presbyters (NCP).
According to NCP’s president, Father José Adelson da Silva Rodrigues, only cases involving diocesan priests have been reported, so the number of members of religious congregations affected by the disease is still unknown.
Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world with a Catholic population estimated at 170 million, has roughly 27,500 priests and 18,200 of them are diocesan, meaning some 9,300 belong to religious orders.
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