Christmas celebrations in Kochi

Thousands of Christians of various denominations joined their counterparts across the world to celebrate Christmas with midnight prayers and mass.

The dispute in the Syro-Malabar archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly over the style of mass celebration seeped into the Christmas-eve mass as a small group of people tried to disrupt the full congregation facing mass at the St. Thomas’ Church, Chittoor.

Those who tried to disrupt the mass were later removed by the police as the priest continued the mass celebration at the church.