Easter sunrise service on the eve of Christian religious festival was held at St. Andrews Church located in Saddar, Karachi, when special prayers were also offered for the security and safety of the country.
Special Church services were held under the aegis of Church of Pakistan. Symbolic torch-bearing procession was also taken out during the Easter sunrise service at St. Andrews Church, private news channel reported.
The Christian community, as elsewhere in the world, celebrated Easter with great religious fervour and enthusiasm throughout the country on Sunday. Easter is culmination of the 40-day lent season, which is time of fasting, alms giving, repentance and spiritual renewal. It is the annual Christian festival celebrating the "resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to absolve human being from the eternal sin". It is most important feast of Christian calendar.
Easter does not come on the same date every year but falls sometime between March 22 and April 25. It is the first Sunday after the first full moon following March 21. The churches throughout the country offered special prayers for the integrity, solidarity and progress of the country and peace all over the world.