Faith-based organizations are pleading with Congress to fund world-wide pandemic relief efforts.

Mexico's bishops are calling for civil authorities to "make all possible efforts" to assist the people economically and medically during the pandemic.

Feeling restless because we cannot go out to eat or attend a concert hardly amounts to involuntary incarceration.

"We see with increasing urgency the need for a state intelligently existing and dialoguing with the community to respond to the emergency produced by the pandemic," they said.

A Federal judge has ruled that the restrictions on how many people may gather for church services in New York state cannot be enforced as it presently stands as it is far more stricter than the protocols for comparable secular gatherings.

Both prayers and economic assistance, Pope Francis stressed, are needed to ameliorate the ongoing humanitarian catastrophes in Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.