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With fear of the coronavirus outbreak on a global calibration, many are turning to organized religion leaders to encounter how they answer.

Several megachurch pastors around the world tackled the new virus in their sermons and through services, encouraging washing of hands and disinfecting mutual areas while cut back on communal contact during greetings, communion, and offering times.

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Joseph Prince, pastor of New Cosmos Church (NCC) in Singapore, told Fox News believers should respond to the new virus with "both religion and wisdom."

Joseph Prince, pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore, speaks to his 33,000 member congregation.

Joseph Prince, pastor of New Cosmos Church in Singapore, speaks to his 33,000 fellow member congregation. (Courtesy of Joseph Prince)

The leader of a congregation with 33,000 members in a country that saw some of the first cases outside of Mainland china has kept his church open with state-of-the-art sanitation and detectors, while others went to only being online as Singapore has 160 confirmed cases with no reported deaths.

"Rather than alive in fright, actively receive His love and protection personally."

— Joseph Prince

"Be wise to take the necessary precautions," Prince said, "but at the same time, pray the prayer of protection found in Psalms 91 daily. I encourage all believers to speak the promises of God'due south protection over yourself and your entire household and church."

In a mid-Feb sermon, the Christian writer shared a testimony of healing from one of the church members and shared how in 2018 he said a flu-like virus would come only God has already released a new "strain" of healing among his people, focusing on the passage from Psalm 91:3, "Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence."

Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, which has congregations in multiple locations in California and in Hawaii, said, "In some ways the viral fear may be worse than the virus itself."

He said Christians should be practical, prayerful, and proclaim Christ's peace in an atmosphere of fear.

"Don't worry about information technology, pray about it," Laurie told his church in a clip posted on Instagram. "God is bigger than the coronavirus. Don't be afraid."

From the Catholic Church in Rome to smaller churches throughout the United States, many congregations have gone online, swapped hugs and handshakes for other types of greetings, and stopped serving Communion and passing offering plates to prevent the spread of the virus.

Merely pastors like Brian Tome of Crossroads Church in Cincinnati told Play tricks News he'due south planning on preaching to thousands this weekend,  and that choosing not to close the church doors was an easy determination for him.

"Hundreds of times in the Bible, God tells his people to not worry; to stop their fears; to be brave and courageous," Tome said. "When everyone else is running for cover, we choose to follow God into the burn. Jesus told his followers not to worry nearly tomorrow, but to focus their mental free energy on the problems of today. Do yous currently have coronavirus? Probably not. Do you know anyone with coronavirus? Me neither. We're post-obit the command of Jesus and choosing not to engage in fearfulness. Instead, we cull to worship, to give time, attending, and gratitude back to God."

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Jim Daly said Christians should pray for Vice President Mike Pence and other leaders every bit they seek to combat the spreading virus.

Last week, Craig Groeschel, Life.Church senior pastor, appear that he has self-quarantined after someone at a conference he attended in Germany tested positive, merely a DC-expanse priest, who thought he had a flu and had recovered, tested positive after he went dorsum to his church with the coronavirus. Now in the hospital, his congregation is being urged to self-quarantine past the mayor.