One last look at this year’s holiday festivities, featuring images of both secular and holy celebrations from China, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan, England, India, Japan, the U.S., and many other places.
Photos: Christmas Around the World
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An Indonesian Christian girl stands near candles during Christmas Eve Mass at Ganjuran Catholic church in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on December 24, 2019. Christmas is a national holiday in Indonesia, despite only eight percent of the population's identifying as Christian. #
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Street performer Thomas Liberto from Bel Air, Maryland, who goes by the social-media name "Mr. Christmas Tree," makes his way around Midtown Manhattan on December 19, 2019. #
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Guatemalan municipal firefighter Hector Chacon, dressed as Santa Claus, arrives to deliver presents to children after descending from a bridge on a cable, in Guatemala City, on December 22, 2019. #
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A "dunking Santa" is airborne for a shot, after using a trampoline to get the height, during a time-out in the second half of an NBA basketball game between the New York Knicks and the Washington Wizards in New York, on December 23, 2019. #
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Christian faithful of the Legio Maria of African Church Mission attend the Christmas Eve Vigil Mass in their church in the Fort Jesus area of Nairobi, Kenya, on December 25, 2019. #
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A woman wearing a Santa hat surfs at Bondi Beach on December 25, 2019, in Sydney, Australia. December is one of the hottest months of the year across Australia, with Christmas Day traditionally involving a trip to the beach and celebrations outdoors. #
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Iraqi children climb in the back of a three-wheeled motorcycle driven by a man dressed as Santa Claus and distributing gifts, in a run-down neighborhood in the city of Najaf, on December 19, 2019. #
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A woman adjusts her hat as she poses for pictures in front of a Virgin Mary statue at Xishiku Cathedral, a government-sanctioned Catholic church, on Christmas Eve in Beijing, China, on December 24, 2019. #
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A swimmer passes swans as he takes a dip in the Serpentine River before the annual Christmas Day Peter Pan Cup handicap race in Hyde Park in London, England, on December 25, 2019. #
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Paulo Ramirez, 64, blows on a fire at his farm in Jalpan de Serra, state of Querétaro, Mexico, on December 20, 2019. About 1,500 families departed from the Texan border city of Laredo, in a yearly caravan made up of Mexican immigrants and Americans of Mexican origin, to return to Mexico for their Christmas holidays, driving cars laden with new clothes, perfumes, and other Christmas presents. #
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A Syrian woman dressed as Santa Claus gives gifts to children at the Gawelan refugee camp, west of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on December 26, 2019. #
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