In the fight against the spread of the coronavirus, advice continues to come from everywhere, including representatives of religions. The French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM) therefore recommended on Tuesday to imams the implementation of preventive measures against Covid-19 and to the faithful not yet vaccinated not to attend mosques.
The CFCM also urges, in a press release, the faithful who do not have a complete vaccination schedule “to do it as soon as possible”. The representative body also calls for “scrupulously adopting barrier gestures”. This is “a collective responsibility which allows us to ensure together that religious ceremonies do not participate in the spread of the pandemic”, explains the CFCM.
Avoid crossing the faithful
While health authorities announced on Tuesday that more than 270,000 new cases of Covid-19 had been recorded in France over the past 24 hours, the CFCM recommends that mosque officials and imams use prevention protocols, in particular to shorten the length of time the faithful are present in mosques, in particular during Friday sermons. He recommends in particular to ventilate the prayer rooms and to “adopt a direction of circulation which prevents the faithful from crossing paths”.
Created in 2003, the CFCM, which has nine federations, has over the years become the main interlocutor of the public authorities on Islam.