Quick Check: Old photo of Modi visiting a church in Colombo shared in the context of COVID-19 outbreak - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
March 30, 2020
An image of Modi visiting a church is being shared on social media with a claim that he visited Church to pray for the revival of the country from the present Coronavirus outbreak. FACTLY has found that the photo was taken at St Anthony’s Shrine (Colombo) in June 2019. It is not related to the Coronavirus outbreak.
Sources:
Claim – Facebook post (archived)
Fact – https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-narendra-modi-sri-lanka-visit-st-anthony-s-church-1545331-2019-06-09
https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1137611919815090176
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