By: Kangkan Kalita & Bhadra Gogoi Guwahati / Dimapur: For OTING people in Nagaland, the village cemetery, where 12 of the villagers were buried after they were killed in shooting by security forces on December 4, have become the arena of this Christmas day.
There is no joy in the hearts of the villagers and no one celebrates Christmas, regardless of candle lighting in the cemetery.
But elsewhere in Nagaland, it is Christmas as usual, although a little quiet in memory losses recently.
While the church, home, and business companies are given an intermediary, the singer Carol is not visible on the road.
Firecrackers broke in the middle of the night to celebrate the birth of Christ.
Unlike last year, Pandemic Covid-19 failed to dampen the celebration.
Churches throughout the country resonated with Carols and Thanksgiving songs when the faithful people look for blessings from the Prince of Peace.
Location of Vanlemkho in Langya Colony in Oting, where the victims had been buried, had become a new goal for visitors to the village of Fornorn.
Nearly 200 meters from the Baptist Church, 100 young volunteers spent Thursday night singing singing from the Bible in the cemetery.
Athon, a 23-year-old graduate, who led the volunteer team, the hymn until midnight and again on Sunday morning, they went to the funeral after morning prayer.
In decided, talking to prayer services at the Loth Baptist Church, Pastor Limhathung Lotha, church priest, asked the church to reflect on whether there was a place for Christ in their hearts.
At the Baptist Church Ao in KhermaHal in Dijapur, Rev.
I Yanglu Imsong said, “We get blessings from God according to our actions.” Governor Jagdish Mukhi, Chair of the Minister of Neiphiu Rio, Legislative Leader of the NPF Tr TR Zeliang, Nagaland Congress Committee Pradesh President K Therie, among others, delivered Christmas greetings to people in the state.
Mukhi said, “Let’s update our determination to follow the example of forgiveness, peace and love for God.”