Christians Celebrate Christmas Eve
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Christians around the world have begun celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, with observances marking Christmas Eve. In Bethlehem, the town of Jesus&#39;s birth, Israel has relaxed travel restrictions
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Christian symbols are being denigrated over Christmas says a leader of the Catholic Church of England and Wales.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Hundreds of pilgrims and a  new Palestinian leadership celebrated Christmas in the town of  Jesus's birth on Saturday with new hopes for peace following  Yasser Arafat's death.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Dec. 24 -- Encouraged by renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Christian pilgrims from around the world converged on Jesus's traditional birthplace Monday to celebrate Christmas -- a palpable contrast to the sparse crowds of recent years.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- Several thousand pilgrims celebrated Christmas Eve in the traditional birthplace of Jesus yesterday, voicing hopes for peace in the Middle East.
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Millions of revellers were celebrating the first night of the holiday last night.
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Pope John Paul ushered in Christmas on Friday by lighting a candle for peace in his window and then celebrating midnight mass in a new test of the 84-year-old pontiff&#39;s frail health.
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By Paul Sand, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 5--It was the intersection of religious celebration and community activism.
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Christmas Eve is supposed to be a time for family, friends and faith, but this year the NFL has added a fourth &quot;F&quot; : football.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Muslims and Christians joined together on Christmas Eve in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, holding their breath that the festive season would be peaceful and possibly the start of a new dawn.
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Frankfurt, November 27: Once upon a time, Germany's Christkind darted from house to house with traditional wooden toys for children on Christmas Eve.
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China's shopping malls in late December leave little doubt that the country has been smitten by Christmas, if not in quite the way devout Christians might hope.
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Midnight Mass was celebrated at the Vatican. People there waited in line for hours to get inside St. Peter&#39;s Basilica for the Christmas service.
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A growing number of Catholic churches are cancelling midnight mass and holding Christmas Eve services earlier in the evening due to fears of disruption from drunken revellers
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China's shopping malls in late December  leave little doubt that the country has been smitten by  Christmas, if not in quite the way devout Christians might  hope.
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Merry Christmas! That's right, Merry Christmas. Whether you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, agnostic, pagan, barbarian or whatever, Merry Christmas!
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Indonesiaâs Christians packed tightly guarded churches to celebrate Christmas today despite fears of terrorist attacks, while the president of the Philippines appealed for an end to corruption in a seasonal message.