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Christmas Traditions Around the World
Title: Christmas Traditions Around the World
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1174 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Christmas Traditions Around the World
RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND POPULAR CUSTOMS
The Bible provides no guidelines that explain how Christmas should be observed, nor does it even suggest that it should be considered a religious holiday. Because of the lack of biblical instructions, Christmas rituals have been shaped by the religious and popular traditions of each culture that celebrates the holiday.
On Christmas Eve, churches around the world hold evening services. At midnight, most Catholic and many Protestant churches hold special …showed first 75 words of 1174 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1174 total…Santa Claus distributes gifts, but in other regions children’s treats are delivered by Knecht Ruprecht, a mythical figure dressed in animal skins. From Christmas Eve through all of Christmas Day and the next day, stores are closed and all work stops as families exchange gifts, attend church, and wish one another Fröhliche Weihnachten (happy Christmas.)
Around the world, every custom celebrates Christmas in a different way...as with famalies in the same culture.
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