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Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas Celebrations Across the World - Dec 25,2011

Sand sculptures on the beach in India
  

Children dressed as Santa Claus 


 Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Catholic Church, held the traditional Christmas Eve Mass at St Peter's Basilica






                                                                    




Pope Benedict XVI attends an audience with the Roman Curia for Christmas greetings, in the Sala Clementina of the Apostolic Palace, in Vatican City


Tens of thousands of tourists and Christian pilgrims packed the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations Saturday Dec 24,2011





Crowds fill Oxford Street as the famous shopping road is closed to traffic for Christmas shopping in central London 
  
Decorated trees during a Christmas Tree Festival at St Mary's Church in Melton Mowbray, Central England .St Mary's Christmas Tree Festival is the largest in Britain with more than 400 trees decorated by local schools, families and businesses.


Christmas Celebrations in Beijing,China
                                                                        



Fireworks Explode Around Christmas Tree During its Lighting Ceremony at Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil

  A Christmas tree with words "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" in many languages is erected for the upcoming Christmas at Beirut Souks

Tourists visit the traditional Christkindelsmaerik (Christ Child market) near Strasbourg Cathedral.Strasbourg's Christ Child Market , is known as the oldest French Christmas market (held annually since 1570)

Volunteers make a Christmas tree with milk tin cans donated to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation, which will distribute them to the poor in Athens,Greece

  A worker checks a 8m (26 feet) tall Christmas tree built with 3,500 Tetra Pak carton packages installed in a park in Lima,Peru

Two people dressed as Mickey Mouse stand next to a Christmas tree made out of lights as they wait to perform for children at Madrid's landmark Puerta del Sol square
  
A street vendor selects a carp for a customer at a market in central Prague December 22, 2011. Carp is traditionally served for Christmas Eve dinner in the Czech Republic.
  
Iraqi Christian girls decorate a Christmas tree at Chaldean Catholic church in Amman,Jordan.Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled to neighbouring Jordan following a spate of bombings that targeted churches in Iraqi cities during the past few years

  Security guards in Santa Claus costumes perform martial arts  during a promotional event at Coex shopping mall in Seoul,South Korea
 

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