As pandemic rages, Mexicans pray to death ‘saint’

Their arms raised towards the sky, worshippers of Mexico’s “saint” of death pray before a giant cloaked skeleton asking for protection from the coronavirus and its devastating economic fallout. The Grim Reaper-like figure, whose devotees include drug cartel members as well as ordinary Mexicans, has been rejected by the Roman Catholic Church as blasphemous. But with tens of thousands of Mexican lives lost to Covid-19, there is no shortage of…