AP PHOTOS: Pandemic’s Sway Over Life, Death, Rites, Prayers
February 2, 2021
A patient holds an Our Lady of Guadalupe card in his bed while talking to chaplain Nancy Many at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. As families are barred from visiting loved ones to curb the disease’s spread, chaplains often are there to act as surrogates, holding the hands of the dying, praying with them and carrying iPads into hospital rooms to provide a real-time connection with grieving families. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Roses with a note saying “#weremember”, is placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Roses with a note saying “#weremember”, is placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Men pray on the Mount of Olives, overlooking the Dome of the Rock Mosque one the Al Aqsa Mosque compound for Friday prayers in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Many people prayed outside the gates of the Old City, due to coronavirus restrictions on gathering at the mosque compound. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Villagers release firecrackers and hold placards featuring U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris after her inauguration, in Thulasendrapuram, the hometown of Harris’ maternal grandfather, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Residents of a tiny Indian village surrounded by rice paddies flocked to a Hindu temple, setting off firecrackers and praying and as they watched Kamala Harris, who has strong roots to the village, take her oath of office and become the U.S. vice president on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, as their children Ashley and Hunter watch.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
Relatives weep as they pray during the burial of Fadly Satrianto, a victim of the crash of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. More searchers and rescuers joined the search Friday for wreckage and victims from the Indonesian plane that crashed in the Java Sea. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)
Relatives weep as they pray during the burial of Fadly Satrianto, a victim of the crash of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. More searchers and rescuers joined the search Friday for wreckage and victims from the Indonesian plane that crashed in the Java Sea. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)
Chaplain Kevin Deegan places his hand on the head of a COVID-19 patient while praying for him at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Deegan’s job, and that of his fellow chaplains at the 377-bed medical center, is to minister to every one of them and also their loved ones. So each day for the past 11 months he has been entering the rooms of the sick and dying clad in a face mask, face shield, gloves and full body cover to pray with them, hold their hands, gently brush their foreheads and reassure them there is nothing to fear. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Young Catholic devotees wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus stand try to get a glimpse of the Black Nazarene at the Santa Cruz Church in Manila, the Philippines a day before its feast day on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. The annual Jan. 9 procession attended by tens of thousands of devotees has been canceled amid the threat of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in one of Asia’s biggest religious events. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A group of Naga girls in traditional attire accompany a bride-to-be, center, as she leaves her village to travel to the village of her groom, in Shangshak village, in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Nagas are an indigenous people living in several northeastern Indian states and across the border in Myanmar. (AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, bows his head during a closing prayer of a joint session of the House and Senate to confirm Electoral College votes at the Capitol, early Thursday, Jan 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The Rev. David R. Steele, Associate Clergy at Luke’s Episcopal church receives the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination at a pop-up vaccination site at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
The Rev. David R. Steele, Associate Clergy at Luke’s Episcopal church receives the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination at a pop-up vaccination site at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
A model wears a creation by Haitian designer Mackenley Darius during a voodoo fashion show in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Mackenley, a former student of the National School of the Arts, is working to promote with the help of friends, artists and designers, his country’s culture, most especially voodoo, a religion that he feels is misunderstood. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
A model wears a creation by Haitian designer Mackenley Darius during a voodoo fashion show in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Mackenley, a former student of the National School of the Arts, is working to promote with the help of friends, artists and designers, his country’s culture, most especially voodoo, a religion that he feels is misunderstood. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
The coffin of Iancu Tucarman is transported on a cart, past an honor guard, at a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Tucarman, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Romania, was buried after dying from COVID-19 last week at the age of 98. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
