FILE - In this Saturday, March 21, 2020 file photo, an employee of the San Giuseppe funeral agency closes the mortuary van containing the coffin of Concetta Schifano, 73, who died because of the coronavirus, at the Multimedica hospital morgue, in Milan, Italy. As the COVID-19 death toll mounts, faith leaders are grappling with a heart-wrenching question: How do you conduct a funeral in the midst of a global pandemic? (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
March 27, 2020
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Faith leaders grapple with funerals amid global pandemic
(RNS) — For Menaka Kannan, it was bad enough when she heard that a fellow member of New York City’s Baha’i community had contracted the novel coronavirus. But she was not emotionally prepared for the news that came roughly a week later: He had succumbed to the infection and died.