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Churches across UK deliver Mother’s Day services online as Brits self-isolate over coronavirus fears NewsColony CHURCHES across the UK banned mass worship and yesterday delivered their Mothering Sunday services online. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, gave the Church of England’s first virtual Sunday service. 2 The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, gave the Church of England’s first virtual Sunday service today Branding these “ strange and difficult” times he said the UK was caught between the need to “keep life going” and “necessary imposed isolation”. His service, recorded in the crypt chapel at Lambeth Palace in London, was broadcast across 39 local BBC radio stations. It came as churches across the country delivered their own Sunday services to mass audiences over the internet. The archbishop’s service featured prayers, hymns recorded by St Martin’s Voices from St Martin-In-The-Fields, and a short sermon. He began: ...