ChurchInAction: the role of religious interventions in times of COVID-19

Castillo, Fides del; Biana, Hazel T.; Joaquin, Jeremiah Joven

doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdaa086

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“…The recent correspondence by del Castillo et al 1 presents the role of religious interventions in times of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In addition to the role of Catholic Church’s #ChurchinAction, this paper adds that religious and spiritual interventions be promoted by world religions.…”

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Religions in action: the role of interreligious dialogue in the COVID-19 pandemic

Corpuz

2020

Journal of Public Health

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Recent correspondence letters to the editor of this journal pointed on the praxis of faith in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. The #ChurchinAction presents the role of religious interventions in times of COVID-19. However, a question is raised: how to promote interreligious dialogue in the context of COVID-19 pandemic? To address this question, people of different faiths/religions should come together in promoting the life and dignity of the human person, a sense of community, and participation, respecting the rights and responsibilities of each person, helping the poor and vulnerable sectors of the society, respecting the dignity of work and the rights of the workers, solidarity and caring for the whole creation. In this perspective, interreligious dialogue highlighted the importance of world religions in order to provide a spiritual intervention. The dialogue of life, dialogue of action, dialogue of theological exchange, and dialogue of religious experiences promote interreligious dialogue in the context of COVID-19 pandemic.

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Religions in action: the role of interreligious dialogue in the COVID-19 pandemic

Corpuz

2020

Journal of Public Health

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“…For example, health professionals in Brazil created a Spiritual Hotline to virtually assist the spiritual needs of its people, including those of different religions and nationalities [ 25 ]. Similarly, the Roman Catholic Church launched a social media campaign in the Philippines to help its congregants cope with COVID-19 [ 26 ]. While we maintain our first-hand perspective that the Black Christian Church has been uniquely significant in the lives of African Americans because of the physical and mental detriments of American racism since slavery, we also wish to reflect that we are a body of spiritual believers who are transcending the boundaries of countries, religious affiliations, and cultural backgrounds in order to take a unified stance of wellness and racial resilience against COVID-19.…”

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Coping with Racism: a Perspective of COVID-19 Church Closures on the Mental Health of African Americans

DeSouza

Parker

Spearman-McCarthy

et al. 2020

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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Academic medical literature and news outlets extensively document how older individuals in communities of color, especially African American communities, are dying disproportionately of COVID-19 due to ongoing societal, racial, and healthcare disparities. Fear of death and suffering are acutely elevated in Black communities; yet, African Americans have been facing, coping with, and overcoming American societal racism and subsequent detriments to our mental health for centuries. Predominately African American churches (hereafter referred to as the "Black Church") have always served a historical, cultural, contextual, and scientifically validated role in the mental health well-being of African American communities coping with American racism. Nonetheless, buildings of worship closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March 2020. This article is a first-hand perspective of five Black internists/psychiatrists who are deeply involved in both academic medicine and leadership positions within the Black Church. It will explore how the physical closure of Black Churches during this period of increased mental stress, as caused by healthcare inequities revealed by the COVID-19 epidemic, is likely to be uniquely taxing to the mental health of African Americans, particularly older African Americans, who must cope with American racism without physical access to the Black Church for the first time in history. Keywords COVID-19. Church. Religion. African American. Black. Racism I, Reverend Dr. Maria Black, write today as an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, an older African American woman, and a board-certified internist with nearly 40 years of experience in general and academic medicine in Georgia. I write alongside my daughter, Dr.

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“…We have read with interest the recent previous letter to the editor concerning the need of psychological support 1 and the role of religious interventions in times of COVID-19. 2 It is well-known that the world is facing a disease with unprecedented consequences due to the COVID-19 pandemic, both to physical and to mental health. 3 Thus, developing strategies to prevent and support mental health issues is needed and urgent.…”

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The role of spirituality in the COVID-19 pandemic: a spiritual hotline project

Ribeiro¹,

Damiano

Marujo

et al. 2020

Journal of Public Health

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Recent correspondence letters to the editor of this journal pointed out to the need of implementing psychological support during the pandemic and post-pandemic period to both general and frontline workers. Especially, they highlighted the importance of religious/spiritual interventions in order to provide an integral and holistic care. In this perspective, an important consequence of the social isolation is the closure of churches and the suspension of religious meetings in order to avoid agglomeration and contagion. However, although this is a very important approach in terms of public health, a question is raised: how to promote spiritual care and help spiritual/religious individuals to cope with their problems while maintaining compliance with social isolation? To address this question, we report the Spiritual Hotline Project, a project designed by many Brazilian healthcare workers intended to give spiritual and religious assistance to people with different cultural background. So far, the hotline was able to assist people from different parts of the world, including Brazil and Portugal as well as with different religious affiliation, in order to provide a spiritual comfort and care during this public health crisis.

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ChurchInAction: the role of religious interventions in times of COVID-19

Cited by 64 publications

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Religions in action: the role of interreligious dialogue in the COVID-19 pandemic

Religions in action: the role of interreligious dialogue in the COVID-19 pandemic

Coping with Racism: a Perspective of COVID-19 Church Closures on the Mental Health of African Americans

The role of spirituality in the COVID-19 pandemic: a spiritual hotline project

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