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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are issuing a call to the nation to pause and reflect to remember the more than 100,000 people across the UK who have died after contracting Covid-19 and all those who know and love them.

In an open letter, Archbishops Justin Welby and Stephen Cottrell invite everyone across England – whether they have faith or not – to pause, reflect on the “enormity of this pandemic” and to pray.

God, they write, knows grief and suffering and “shares in the weight of our sadness” The letter includes an invitation to everyone – whether they have faith or not – to join the archbishops in pausing and praying each day at 6 pm from February 1st.

Death, they insist, does not have “the last word”, and the Christian faith promises that one day “every tear will be wiped away”. Read the full letter here