Colourful Christmas Eve Celebration Across The World
Christmas is a season characterised by colourful celebration. The 25th of December is the day globally set aside to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. […]
Syrians dressed in Santa Claus outfits roam the streets of the capital Damascus on the back of a decorated vehicle on December 24, 2017 for Christmas eve celebrations.
Louai Beshara / AFP
Indonesian nationals pose for a selfie underneath a giant Christmas tree on the eve of the holiday in Hong Kong’s Central district on December 24, 2017. TENGKU Bahar / AFP
Christmas is a season characterised by colourful celebration. The 25th of December is the day globally set aside to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It is welcomed with Christmas Eve celebration heralding the birth of Jesus Christ.
Here are some colourful pictures of Christmas Eve celebration from different nations of the world:
Men dressed as Santa Claus gesture as they take part in the traditional New Year’s Santa Claus race in Skopje, Macedonia on December 24, 2017.
Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP
Chinese residents take part in a ‘Pillow Fight Night’ during an event to mark Christmas eve in Shanghai on December 24, 2017.
CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP
Iraqis clergymen attend a Christmas mass at the Saint Paul’s church on December 24, 2017 in the country’s second city Mosul . Hymns filled a church as worshippers celebrated Christmas for the first time in four years after the end of jihadist rule. Tens of thousands of Christians fled northern Iraqi towns in 2014 as the Islamic State group seized Mosul and swathes of the surrounding Nineveh province.
Ahmad MUWAFAQ / AFP
A man dressed as Santa Claus with Superman t-shirt takes part in the traditional New Year’s Santa Claus race in Skopje, Macedonia on December 24, 2017.
Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP
Shoppers take a ‘selfie’ next to Christmas decorative camels under lights in Thessaloniki on December 19, 2017. SAKIS MITROLIDIS / AFP
US President Donald J. Trump participates in a video teleconference call with military members on Christmas Eve in Palm Beach, Florida on December 24, 2017.
Nicholas Kamm / AFP
Members of the Senftenbergers Pirrlliepausen (Senftenberger’s Icicles) Swim Club attend the traditional Christmas bath on December 23, 2017 in Senftenberg, eastern Germany. For 30 years, the Pirrlliepausen meet for their Christmas bath.
Bernd Wüstneck / dpa / AFP
A woman sings christmas carols to support Catalan political prisoners on December 24, 2017 in front of the Model prison in Barcelona. The victory of the separatist camp and parallel success of an anti-secession party in Catalan elections highlights the region’s stark division and leaves it exposed to huge political and economic uncertainty, analysts say.
Josep LAGO / AFP
Indonesian nationals pose for a selfie underneath a giant Christmas tree on the eve of the holiday in Hong Kong’s Central district on December 24, 2017.
TENGKU Bahar / AFP
Syrians dressed in Santa Claus outfits roam the streets of the capital Damascus on the back of a decorated vehicle on December 24, 2017 for Christmas eve celebrations.
Louai Beshara / AFP
A child skips over bamboo skewered roasted pigs at a ‘lechon’ grill on Christmas Eve in Manila on December 24, 2017. Locally known as ‘lechon’ or roasted suckling pig, the delicacy has been a famous part of Filipino Christmas and New Year celebrations which runs from December until the second week of January.
GEORGE CALVELO / AFP
Nuns watch and use their cell phones to film a Roman Catholic procession prior to Christmas eve at the Church of the Nativity compound in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 24, 2017.
Musa AL SHAER / AFP
