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Virtual church services welcome remedy in a world thirsty for hope

Apart from the toddler that kept interrupting, uttering several incomprehensible consonants and letting out attention-seeking cries, everybody else in the house was attentive, almost in supplication as they followed the church service.

The spot that has for so many years looked like a football pitch to me as I followed my favourite team, Arsenal, occasionally put a wide smile on my face, is now slowly turning into an altar of some kind, thanks to the coronavirus.

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