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People around the world celebrate Christmas
Updated: 2004-12-25 00:14
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| A diver dressed
as Santa Claus swims with a sea turtle at an aquarium in Seoul December
24, 2004. This promotional drive was organised to attract visitors during
the Christmas season.[Reuters] |
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| Ewa Narkiewicx (R) from Australia and Phlai
Noppaklao, a two-year-old male elephant in a Christmas costume, entertain
students during Christmas celebrations at Jirasart school in the
Ayutthaya province, 80 km (49.7 miles) north of
Bangkok, December 24, 2004. [Reuters] |
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| A Santa Claus
waves to the crowd at an amusement park in Calcutta December 24, 2004.
Although Christians make up less than three percent of India's one billion
population, Christmas is celebrated widely across the country.
[Reuters] |
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| An elderly iraqi
man shops for holiday decorations on Christmas Eve in a market in Baghdad
December 24, 2004. Many Iraqi Christians from the Assyrian and Chaldean
churches say they will celebrate this Christmas quietly at home this
year. Few will be showing up to church on Christmas morning, scared
that insurgents who have bombed churches, mosques and Muslim religious
festivals, will strike again. [Reuters] |
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| Romanian girl
carries a lamb in central Bucharest, December 24, 2004. During Christmas
and New Year celebrations Romanians believe that touching lambs brings
goold luck in the year to come.
[Reuters] |
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