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Asian groups prayed over, updated during conference call about coronavirus

Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd, left, and Peter Yanes, executive director of Asian American relations and mobilization for the SBC EC, hosted a call with more than 30 ethnically diverse leaders to pray for global healing, comfort and salvation in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people. REBECCA MANRY/BP

Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd, left, and Peter Yanes, executive director of Asian American relations and mobilization for the SBC EC, hosted a call with more than 30 ethnically diverse leaders to pray for global healing, comfort and salvation in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people. REBECCA MANRY/BP

Posted Friday, February 14, 2020 7:54 am

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