New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued a statement that gatherings of people 500 or more are not to congregate. Thus for the State of New York, sporting events, concerts, Broadway shows, restaurants, schools and so many other large meetings are being prohibited.

That also means churches.

Christian churches will not be “passing the Peace of Christ,” but making adjustments as they try to figure out how to deal with Sunday Service and the COVID-19.

Concerns are arises as Christians have to determine what they will do about corporate prayers, hugging each other, share the sacred meal that requires many to exchange the bread and wine of Eucharist. While participating in any of this, one might contract the coronavirus from a member that might not know that they have it.

Black Pastors…please stop asking folk to hold hands and touch your neighbor over the next few months! I rebuke the pass of the Coronavirus lol!!

— Tiont Williams (@Tick_85) March 5, 2020

New York is not the only place folk are concerned about their religious institutions.

As NPR has reports, Christian churches, in various denominations are shifting how they do communion.

The Episcopal Dioceses of Los Angeles asked their congregations to stop sipping from the communal communion cup. Roman Catholics and other denominations that practice similarly are also proposing to forego this aspect of these sacraments.

On the contrary, The Greek Orthodox Church released a statement saying that they will (based on their holy doctrine) continue. They do not believe that “the coronavirus can be transmitted via communion wine or wafer.”

An alternative to gathering for worship is for churches to host online services. That is most certainly going to have some pastors up in arms and could possibly cause financial hardships for churches that live Sunday to Sunday based on congregational offerings and tithes.

Christian churches are not the only religious institutions that are being affected.

This goes for Jewish synagogues who are currently entering into the Purim holiday and also in Islamic Masjids that are incredibly intimate in the way that their practice worship.

Saudis already banned pilgrimage to Mecca and Catholics have already banned use of Holy Water in their Churches in Italy. Seems all eyes are on science for a solution to Corona Virus, not on god.

People slowly realizing that real problems can’t be solved by imaginary solutions.

— Ja Loka (@_fels1) March 9, 2020

Check out what Twitter is saying about this. Some are looking at how seriously religious bodies are taking the pandemic, others make light of something that could definitely shift how folk worship. Some even think that there is a conspiracy connected to the Black church and the elections. Where does your House of Worship fall?

Black churches = home of the Democratic base. Black churches ALSO = potential hotspot for the coronavirus. Think about it—folks over the age of 60 most likely with chronic health conditions congregating in one spot #COVID19

— Politicking (@RealCharity919) March 11, 2020

Oh baby I know the preachers in Black churches are currently writing an entire sermon about the Coronavirus

— Myleeza (@MyleezaKardash) March 12, 2020

Ima know corona virus bad when black churches cancel 2nd service

— (@TaylorMadeSwank) March 12, 2020

WHITE PEOPLE: "Why aren't Black people getting the #coronavirus ?!?"

BLACK PASTORS: "AND THE MEEK, SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH"

THE BLACK COMMUNITY: pic.twitter.com/UAOT4Sg1W9

— Ghost On Ur Timeline (@BabyIfYouTired) March 11, 2020

Christian pastor: Churches that shut down due to coronavirus are a ‘bunch of pansies’…

…that'll be pushin' up daisies.https://t.co/eCapwKRpDw

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) March 11, 2020

BREAKING: Churches in Rome will be closed until April amid coronavirus outbreak

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) March 12, 2020

I want one of those white pastors to have a revelation saying that the coronavirus pandemic will end when the west pays reparations to brown and black folks for colonization, genocides and slavery, then we see how it goes.

— Igikobwa (@ooh_wah_sey) March 10, 2020

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