Published 16:35 IST, May 25th 2020

Priest performs baby's Baptism with toy gun amid COVID-19 crisis, netizens baffled

The picture shows a baptism ceremony being held in a church. However, the fact that the pastor is using a squirt gun has caught everybody's attention.

Reported by: Riya Baibhawi
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coronavirus pandemic has altered societal rms in multiple ways. t only has way of greeting each or changed from kisses and hugs to Namaste but also has concept of enjoying movies and dining out. w, a picture of a pastor baptizing a baby with water gun has presented what pandemic hit 2020 looks like.

'Social distancing' 

picture, which has w taken internet by storm, shows a baptism ceremony being held in a church. However, fact that pastor is using a squirt gun to sprinkle holy water on infant has caught everybody's attention. In dition, photo also shows baby along and her parents standing a safe social distance from priest pointing directly to how COVID-19 has affected cultural rms.

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Since posted on Twitter, photo has garnered 5.3k likes and 1.6k comments. post has also been flooded with comments of people with many comparing it to a Martin Scorsese’s film.

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In a similar incident, a picture that was shared on Twitter by Candian movie director Jeff Barnaby featured a priest giving “social distance blessings”. In photograph, he could be seen using a squirt pistol to spray "holy water”. post has attracted rib-tickling comments and memes from netizens. One user wrote, "Imagine if someone time travelled here from past and saw this" while ar wrote, I want an urban fantasy w where vampire hunters hunt vampires with cheap plastic squirt guns full of holy water". 

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This comes as coronavirus has w infected 5,411,498 people across world with a majority in mainland US. According to latest data by John Hopkins University, 345,122 people have died worldwide.  Recently, WHO said that epicentre of pandemic was shifting to South America after Brazil became country with second highest cases. 

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16:35 IST, May 25th 2020