Programmes to celebrate Xmas in Barisal
Staff Reporter, Barisal
Members of the Christian communities in Barisal are ready to gallantly celebrated Christmas Day, their biggest religious festival, scheduled on Sunday as elsewhere in country and across the world to mark the birth of Jesus Christ. The day long festivities will begin from morning with singing carols, special church prayers, and discussion from early Christmas Eve. The churches and adjoining grounds decorated with colorful tiny blinking lights and illuminated.
The main prayer of the day scheduled on Sunday from 8pm to 10pm at Baptist church of the city. Christmas trees placed with a star standing right on top. Besides, Santa Claus handed out Christmas gifts to the children, family gatherings took place and Christmas Day feasts.
To ensure peaceful celebrations of Christmas, security beefed up in the city. The police and the Rapid Action Battalion personnel have been deployed to ensure safety in and around the churches and Christian populated areas. Barisal centre of Bangladesh Betar and cable operators of Barisal also will air special programmes on the occasion of holy Christmas as Shuva Bara Din from Friday.
