Bishops Let Brazilians Eat Meat This Week
The risk of cholera has led Brazil’s Roman Catholic Church to lift restrictions on eating meat in some high-risk areas during the Easter Holy Week.
The Brazilian Bishops Conference said Catholics are not restricted to eating fish during Holy Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state, and in four northeastern states hit by cholera.
Catholics here traditionally eat fish during the week before Easter as a sign of penitence. But fish are major carriers of cholera, which they pick up from water contaminated by human excrement.
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