Christians across the world are observing Good Friday today. The day marks the crucifixion of Jesus Christ over 2000 years ago. Christians including Catholics, Protestants and Syrian Catholics, Orthodox Christians observed the day by holding special services meditating upon the suffering of Christ on the Cross for the mankind and the seven verses he utters on the cross.
In India, services will be held in churches in the national capital, Kerala, Goa, Orissa, Mizoram, Meghalaya and other states.

With the rest of the world, Christians in Nagaland is observing Good Friday today, with people attending special services in all the churches across the state.

In Kerala, special prayers and Holy Mass were held in churches marking Good Friday commemorating the sufferings and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Devotees thronged churches in large numbers early this morning to offer prayers. Way of the Cross processions were taken out in several places, with devotees bearing wooden crosses depicting the final hours of Jesus Christ.

Several hundreds of devotees bearing crosses trekked to the Malayattoor Church in Ernakulam district, an important Christian pilgrim center in the country, believed to have been sanctified by the visit of St Thomas. Good Friday is being observed in Goa today with traditional devotion and piety as in the rest of the country. Several programmers including mass prayers are being held to mark the occasion.