An outbreak of a highly infectious strain of bird flu at a Dutch farm forced an evangelical church to hold a drive-in service Sunday. Earlier in the week hundreds of hens, chickens, pigeons, rabbits and guinea pigs had taken up residence in the church hall in Veenendaal for the annual exhibition of a local rabbit and poultry breeders' association. After the government imposed a lockdown on the transport of all poultry to prevent the spread of bird flu, the animals could not be moved. The church, which receives more than a thousand visitors each week, asked its followers to come to the parking lot outside the church hall to follow the service via a local radio broadcast.
