Worshippers attend an Orthodox Church in the city of Slutsk, Belarus on Sunday (April 3) without applying social distancing amid growing concern due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Anthony, Bishop of Slutsk and Soligorsk said, "We encourage parishioners to fulfil all the requirements of sanitary and epidemiological services and wash their hands often. Do not be afraid to get infected in the temple, do not be afraid to get infected during holy baptism."

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The translation of the interview with Bogdan V. Berezkin, head of the Department of bell ringers of the Minsk theological school, Chairman of the all-Belarusian brotherhood of bell ringers of St. Paulinus the Merciful:" Today we have the largest bell in the history of our Belarus. And if we take it in the context of the General history, 200-300 years ago, this is the second largest bell in the entire history of Belarus. Because the ten-ton bell was in Grodno's Saint Sophia Cathedral, it was there for several years, then it was taken out in 1915 just during the German offensive. During the first world war, there was an Imperial decree on the removal of all valuables, including bells, inside the Russian Empire from those territories that fell under German occupation. And this bell was only for a short time, but it was the largest, it has the lowest sound. It was the most powerful in Belarus. There were studies, tried to study the sound wave of the bell at the Institute of the lithosphere of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, it was in the 80-ies of the 20th century. The results were amazing, more than a hundred bacteria died within 5 seconds. This I know for sure, read and led the research Professor, doctor of medical Sciences Andrey Vladimirovich Gnezdilov. Academician Shapunov considered the sound wave of the bell from the point of view of physics."
Anthony, Bishop of Slutsk and Soligorsk:
"Now we encourage parishioners to fulfill all the requirements of sanitary and epidemiological services and wash their hands often, this is a very simple action. Disinfect and wash your hands often, do not be afraid to get infected in the temple, do not be afraid to get infected during Holy baptism, you need to believe. A lot of sins a person commits, which give rise to certain chronic diseases and millions of people around the world die from diseases that a person acquires due to an incorrect lifestyle. And the Church just gives us the opportunity to purify both the body and the spirit. We say that if you observe all four fasts during the year on Wednesday and Friday, you will not need to follow a diet. As doctors say, in your body, everything will be balanced. When we talk to experienced clergy, they say that many diseases appear because a person does not fast. A person should limit himself, not be a slave to the refrigerator, stove and frying pan, he should be a slave of God. Now we all pray that God will stop this disease and heal those people who are in hospital beds, so that God will give them health."
Pavel, Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavsky, Patriarchal Exarch of all Belarus:
"All our life should be filled with joy, that we are with God and no Bacillus will touch the Christians, because as in those distant times and in the first centuries of Christianity. People who lived in Rome wondered what happened then. Remember how Nero mocked the Christians, tormented them, and killed them. According to historians, human corpses were often found in the city of Rome. And the locals all shied away and said that now we will get infected with this deadly Bacillus. Everyone was hiding, but they said that there were some people who were not afraid of death. Who are they? They are Christians. They collect these corpses and bury them. They are not afraid of death. This caused fear and awe in the Romans. I'm not telling you this by accident. I want to say brothers and sisters, well, if not today, then tomorrow the Lord will call us. If not from the coronavirus, then from heart disease. Not from the heart, but from old age. But remember the Princess of Slutsk, who lived only 26 years, and her memory will be preserved forever, in the Church, in history, and of course in the Kingdom of heaven. I would like to say that no one should doubt that when we partake of the blood of Christ, we partake of it for the healing of the soul and body and for eternal life."