In Bishop's Falls, N.L., the First United Pentecostal Church was at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak this month.

The church's congregation — 12 people — has received invitations from neighbouring churches to worship there while the building is being repaired.

Pope Francis has become the first pope to visit a Pentecostal church, pressing his outreach to evangelicals who represent Catholicism's greatest competition for Christian souls around the globe.