Until the beginning of may together with Italy extends all the restrictions caused by the epidemic, and located in the heart of Rome, the Vatican city state. This jeopardizes the financial health of the state of the city, managed the Holy see. The fact that the main source of income of the state are the famous Vatican museums. This complex includes, for example, the famous Sistine chapel with ceiling paintings by Michelangelo. Collection of 54 galleries and halls created by popes of the past and contain the artwork of the great masters, including other famous works of the Renaissance. Annually they are visited by six million tourists. They also buy Souvenirs, send postcards, arrange sightseeing tours. Needless to say that the Vatican museums and Italian museums, will be closed from the beginning of March. According to Italian media, because of the coronavirus, the local Treasury will lose tens of millions of euros. In March the financial loss of the Holy see amounted to about 8-10 million euros. In April, according to preliminary estimates of economists, they will twice more. Given that dried up another source of income for the Vatican – the donations of Catholics, and the majority of them already a month are unable to come to the temples, the economic situation of the Holy see is not encouraging. Italian news Agency Ansa reports that although no official statements of the Vatican on this score do, we know that already adopted emergency measures to restrict spending. Among them – the freezing of contracts, hiring new employees, purchasing of necessary equipment. Life in the state the city came to a standstill, all the activity happening in remote mode, and even the Swiss guard could not leave the Vatican.
because of the epidemic COVID-19 during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which starts on 23 April, for the first time in history would remain closed to the main Shrine of Islam in Mecca and Medina Holy mosque and the Prophet’s mosque. As reported by the Main Directorate of Saudi Arabia in the Affairs of the two Holy mosques, this year Muslims during Ramadan to make it required five times a day prayers and a special prayer “Taraweeh”, which is read only in Ramadan after the night prayer until dawn. Muslims this year will have to deal with the constraints that violate their most ancient traditions. For example, an iftar – the evening breaking of the joint, short-term termination post, they are at times up to 1000 believers, and where they’re collecting donations for the poor, during an epidemic of coronavirus impossible in many countries, such as Egypt. In Germany, where for the same reason, banned all Church services, under threat may be the existence of many musulmanskie communities. As reported by a local radio station Deutsche Welle, collected during Ramadan, donations are an important source of their income. “The Central Council of Muslims, fears that even at the end of the pandemic, many communities can not continue to exist due to lack of funds,” reports Deutsche Welle.
In Korea in late February, was closed brought a considerable amount of income the program of stay of tourists in the traditional Buddhist temples, where they could get acquainted with the daily life of the monks, and to learn the basics of Korean Buddhist practices of self-discovery.
