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In Peru, thousands of faces at Mass -- none now alive
Franklin BriceÑo, Associated Press
Updated 3:36 pm CDT, Sunday, June 14, 2020
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Archbishop Carlos Castillo on Sunday looked out over a catheral full of faces — none of them now alive.
The cleric had his church filled with more than 5,000 portraits of those who have died in the pandemic that is burning across Peru and South America as a whole, using his broadcast homily to criticize a health system he said “is based on egotism and on business and not on mercy and solidarity with the people.”
COVID-19 has taken at least 6,400 lives in the nation of some 32 million people — a toll second only to that of Brazil within South America.
Hundred of them have died without receiving help from the health system, and many families have faced financial ruin due to the cost of trying to care for the ill. The nation as a whole faces a projected economic contraction of 12% this year, and Castillo called for solidarity with the poor.
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