Jamshedpur: Steel City celebrated Christmas without any fanfare from Thursday night through Friday in compliance with the Covid-19 guidelines issued by the state administration.
All 24 churches in the city organised special prayers to mark the birth of Jesus Christ but unlike other years, the midnight mass was not observed and the prayers were held on Thursday evening.
Former vicar general of the Catholic Diocese of Jamshedpur, Father David Vincent, said, “Since we can hold prayers after sunset, we organised sessions between 7 pm and 8 pm at all churches.”
Father E A Francis, who is the principal of XITE college, Gamharia, said devotees and priests prayed to Jesus to liberate the country and the world from the clutches of the deadly virus.