Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Christmas all Over the World

Today I Give  you Christmas From All over the world

Indonesian children dressed in Santa Claus costumes sing along to Christmas carols in Jakarta..Too Glorious

A student dressed up as Santa Claus dances  with other students during a Christmas celebration at a school in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh




What do you notice about this picture...Look closer at the worshipper arranging flower decorations..in a Christian church in Kunming, Yunnan province, China.

Southern Sudanese women pray during the Christmas mass at St. Teresa's Cathedral in Juba, Sudan

Priests pray near a figurine of the baby Jesus during a Christmas mass at Catholic Cathedral Church in the north of Khartoum, Sudan


A homeless child holds a candle during a street Christmas celebration at Dom Pedro Park in downtown Sao Paulo

Homeless people attend a Christmas mass celebrated in a bus in Nice, southeastern France

A man, from a charitable organization, dressed as Santa Claus, sits with homeless people as part of a street Christmas celebration in downtown Sao Paulo 

Lebanese Christians dressed as Santa Claus celebrate Christmas in Jiyeh village, south of Beirut, Had no idea they celebrated Christmas in Lebanon...Anyway..Christmas Is global

Lebanese Christians dressed as Santa Claus cheer during Christmas in Jiyeh village, south of Beirut ..Nice Shades Santa 

A worshipper lights a candle in the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem
Christian devotees attend a Christmas mass at a church in Kirkuk, 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad...Christmas in Baghadad, I wonder how thats like

U.S. military personnel from 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) pose for a picture with Santa Claus on Christmas eve at a military base in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad
It always touches me, seeing women in the military

An Iraqi Christian girl attends a Christmas mass at Chaldean Catholic church in Amman, Jordan

Nuns arrive at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for a Christmas Holy Mass led by Cardinal Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles Archdiocese, in Los Angeles, California...For some reason I just though of sister Act.

A U.S. soldier dressed as Santa Claus distributes gifts to fellow soldiers during a concert on Christmas eve at Bagram air field, north of Kabul

An altar boy holds Pope Benedict XVI's pastoral cross as he leads the Christmas mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican ..He looks kinda nervous..standing next to the pope I see why 

A U.S. soldier prays during Christmas celebrations at Bagram air field, north of Kabul


A man dressed as the fictional character "The Grinch" looks on as U.S. military personnel from the 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) receive their Christmas meal at a military base in Balad, Iraq..wonder what the Grinch is gonna steal now

A tourist in a Santa t-shirt poses for a photo in front of a Christmas tree which she decorated on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii ..yea Really Creative Old lady

Iraqi Christians gather around a fire as they celebrate Christmas at a square near the church east of Mosul, about 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad...Graceful Christmas Gathering, I like this one, No fancy stuff, just a bonfire gather talk and celebrate

Iraqi Christians pray for peace in Iraq during a mass on Christmas Eve at Christ church in Amman, Jordan

Clown Ernesto Aguirre applies face paint at the La Mascota children's hospital in Managua, Nicaragua, December 24, 2010. Aguirre has been visiting the hospital at Christmas for the last five years to bring joy and gifts to children suffering from cancer....I usually dont like clowns but this one is an exception 

Members of Berlin's ice swimming club "Berliner Seehunde" (Berlin Seals) take a dip in the Orankesee lake in Berlin as part of their traditional Christmas ice swimming session..Really? While some are complaining about the harsh weather in Europe these two go swimming in a lake...

People dressed as Santa Claus take part in a festive procession in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk..I swear I saw a skinny Santa in-between there somewhere

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal carries a statue of the baby Jesus following the Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem


Yorgo Diagurisi, a four-year-old Greek Orthodox boy, eats bread during a Christmas mass at the Greek Orthodox patriarchal cathedral of St. George in Istanbul ..too cute, looks kinda nervous, When They First told me that I had to eat the body of Christ in Church when I was young,there a sudden silent pause then I asked my Sunday school teacher..Isnt That Cannibalism?

Sula (R), an elderly Greek Orthodox woman, attends a Christmas mass at the Greek Orthodox patriarchal cathedral of St. George in Istanbul 

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