Across Asia, home to about half of the world's Muslims, the coming Islamic holy month of Ramadan is on a collision course with the coronavirus pandemic as clerics call on the faithful to cram into mosques.

More than 260 million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, with church leaders asking worshipers to stay at home to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus.

From world leaders and royals to sports stars and artists, the coronavirus has hit millions around the world, including the rich and famous. 

Pope Francis prayed Monday for the growing number of women subjected to domestic abuse while living under coronavirus lockdown.

Pope Francis will break with centuries of tradition and livestream Easter Sunday mass to allow the world's 1.3 billion Catholics to celebrate their holiest holiday under a coronavirus lockdown.

A handful of priests celebrated Easter on Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected.

Church doors will be shut and the Vatican sealed off when Pope Francis leads 1.3 billion Catholics in Easter Sunday celebrations held under a worldwide coronavirus lockdown.

Eggs on the table and a toy rabbit on the dresser -- with a few decorations, Palestinian Christian Sawsan Bitar attempts to salvage some normality from an Easter overshadowed by coronavirus.

"The world will never be the same again," has been the oft-repeated refrain since the coronavirus brought the global economy to a juddering halt.

To some, Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman is guilty of a "catastrophic failure" of leadership for not urgently conveying the coronavirus threat to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that elected him.