Apparently, it won't be a Good Friday for some in the town of Newcastle in England. A pastor has banned children under 12 years of age from his Good Friday service because he will instead be showing clips from Mel Gibson's controversial movie The Passion of The Christ. What's more, the pastor also slammed the modern Easter holiday for being "sentimentalized with eggs and fluffy chickens".

The pastor, Mark Elder, 45, of Heaton Baptist Church says: "The Easter story is not pretty and I want to get across the true un-cut version. It's effectively an X-certificate service," according to Ananova.

Yet, the controversial pastor says he promises other activities for the children who will miss out on Friday.