When is Christmas

2023 - 12 - 24

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Opinion: I have one wish this Christmas (NPR)

NPR's Scott Simon recounts a recent encounter with a certain robust, white-bearded fellow in a red suit.

Pod Corner: A memorable Christmas dinner (WUNC)

Colorado Public Radio's My Story So Far is a podcast with stories told from different communities around the state. In this segment, a student recounts a ...

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'No joy in our hearts': Bethlehem's Christians face heartbreak at ... (Aljazeera.com)

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank โ€“ At Christmas, Noha Helmi Tarazi normally decorates her home with a large tree, which she describes as a symbol of light and ...

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'God is under the rubble in Gaza': Bethlehem's subdued Christmas (The Japan Times)

There will be no musical festivities. No tree-lighting ceremony. No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at ...

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'We're not celebrating': Christmas called off in Bethlehem as Gaza ... (Financial Times)

Now, Bethlehem will have no Christmas tree at all. The Palestinian hilltop town, considered by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus, is in mourning, devastated ...

Christmas cheer as the red crabs march begins | Ministers (Ministers)

One of the world's most fascinating migrations is now underway on Christmas Island in Australia's Indian Ocean Territories, capturing the attention of ...

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Syrians cancel Christmas festivities in solidarity with Gaza (The Straits Times)

โ€œIn Palestine, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, people are suffering,โ€ the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, Mor Dionysius Antoine Shahda, told AFP. The ...

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With war raging in Gaza, Christmas is effectively cancelled in ... (CNN)

Church bells echo through the labyrinth-like streets of Bethlehem. With Christmas approaching, the city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank should be teeming ...

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Die Hard and Carry On? Britain's most-aired films over Christmas ... (The Guardian)

Analysis of five decades of festive TV schedules shows that only one in eight films were Christmas-related.

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Bethlehem nearly deserted after Christmas celebrations suspended ... (FRANCE 24)

The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town on Sunday, as Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the ...

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Opinion: In the Holy Land, our somber Christmas is not without hope (Los Angeles Times)

The atrocities in Israel and Gaza make it hard to find joy in the holidays. But there's inspiration in the traumas of Christ's birth.

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What are Palestine's unique Christmas rituals, disrupted by Israel's ... (Aljazeera.com)

This year's Christmas will have rubble-laden mangers and silent processions amid the Israel, Hamas war.

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Bethlehem a Ghost Town on Christmas Eve as War Halts Celebrations (Voice of America)

A Nativity scene decorated to honor the victims in Gaza is displayed in Manger Square, near the Nativity Church, which is traditionally believed to be the ...

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Hanging Christmas tree falls and injures Singaporean man (New Straits Times Online)

KUALA LUMPUR: A Singaporean's Christmas celebration became an unfortunate experience when a decorative Christmas tree hanging from a shopping mall ceiling, ...

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