Photos of Christmas celebrations around the world

Christians attend prayer on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025, at St. Mary Cathedral in Yangon, Myanmar

Not only do people decorate trees in Johannesburg, but their cars as well, as a form of aesthetic irony, but also an expression of joy materialising in non-traditional ways.

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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.