Pakistani Christians were celebrating Christmas Eve on Sunday with mass and processions under heavy security, amid fear and challenge of extremists, following a recent attack at a church killing nine people and injuring 57 in the western part of the country. The Christian community, made up of only two percent of the 207 million inhabitants of the Muslim majority country, has been preparing for the festivities with the hope that there would be no repeat of the attack that happened on December 17 in Quetta. "The people are scared, but we have faith and tonight we will hold the Christmas mass at our church," Simon Bashir, priest of the Methodist Bethel Memorial parish church in Quetta, told Efe.