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December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
T-minus 2⃣4⃣ hours to #Christmas! 🎅🎄

Christmas Eve is locally known here in the Philippines as Noche Buena, and this well-cherished holiday tradition of ours involves a huge, late-night feast with family and friends.

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December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
0⃣2⃣ days to #Christmas!

Bethlehem has held profound significance to many Christians across the world.

Revered as the birthplace of Jesus according to biblical accounts, this little town on the West Bank attracts thousands of pilgrims this Christmas season.

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December 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
0⃣3⃣ days to #Christmas!

When we think of Santa Claus, a jolly old man with a red suit and a sleigh powered by reindeers might come to mind. But Norway has a unique twist when it comes to Santa, or as they call him Fjøsnissen, or Nisse.

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December 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
0⃣4⃣ days to #Christmas!

Christmas eve is considered to be a very important and busy day in Poland, but it was traditionally a day of fasting and abstinence, meaning that no one eats anything until the first star appears in the sky.

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December 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
0⃣5⃣ days to #Christmas!

The Badnjak has been central to Serbia's celebrations of Christmas, which falls on January 7 based on the Julian calendar. It is placed on a fire on Christmas Eve and its branches are later brought home by Orthodox Serbs.

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December 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
0⃣6⃣ days to #Christmas!

Lauscha is home to generations of glassblowers.

Perhaps, this small town in Germany is rightly respected as the birthplace of the Christmas ornament, as this is where Hans Greiner invented the hand-made Baubles.

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December 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
1⃣ week until #Christmas!

In Czechia, Christmas Eve is traditionally a day of fasting.

If someone managed to stay the whole day until dinner without food, they were rewarded with a vision of a golden pig - which is said to be an omen for good luck.

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December 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
0⃣8⃣ days to #Christmas!

Greece has been a nation of sailors for centuries, and in their way to celebrate Christmas, Greeks have an old tradition and custom to decorate a sailboat - locally called the 'Karavakia' - with Christmas lights.

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December 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
0⃣9⃣ days to #Christmas!

What Illuminates the light of Christmas in Haiti were the Fanal, a lantern that is completely crafted out of cardboard and tissue paper and is created in brilliant, gem-like colors to represent a house or chapel.

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December 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Today marks the first night of one of the most well-cherished Christmas traditions by Filipino Catholics, the Simbang Gabi, an annual nine-day novena in the days leading up to Christmas. ⛪️

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December 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
1⃣0⃣ days to #Christmas!

Since there are so few trees in icy Greenland, most Christmas Trees are imported from its neighbour Denmark.

These trees are decorated with candles, bright ornaments and small sealskin breeches known as Kamiks. 🎄

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December 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
1⃣1⃣ days to #Christmas!

In Caracas, Venezuela, people don't need cars to travel onto holiday novena masses from December 16 to 24 every year, but rather by roller skates. 🛼

In fact, roads are even closed to provide them a safe journey.

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December 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
1⃣2⃣ days to #Christmas!

Of all the culinary treats that grace the French Christmas table, nothing inspires more child-like joy than a rich, chocolate Yule log, or the Bûche de Noël.

It has been a Christmas staple in France ever since the 19th century.

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December 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
1⃣3⃣ days to #Christmas!

Among one of Iceland's big customs for Christmas were the Yule Lads - or Jólasveinar.

These lads are all a bit of a prankster, but unless you weren't naughty, they left small presents in shoes that children place on windowsills.

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December 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
1⃣4⃣ days to #Christmas!

While many are aware of Santa’s workshop being located in the North Pole, there's one place in Finland of which many consider as his hometown. 🎅

Welcome to Rovaniemi, a Lapland town that's situated on the Arctic Circle.

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December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
1⃣5⃣ days before Christmas!

The Irish have a tradition to light a candle and place it in the window on Christmas Eve each year.

The candle is said to signify a welcoming light for Mary and Joseph, and was at the same time a sign of welcome for all visitors.

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December 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
1⃣6⃣ days before Christmas!

Christmas in parts of the southern hemisphere, especially Australia, comes in the towards the beginning of summer there.

Well, whenever Santa gets down under, he would need to wear something cooler in the scorching heat.

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December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
1⃣7⃣ days to #Christmas!

At a town in Sweden, there's the Gävle goat, a 13-meter-high Yule goat statue made out of straw and is erected every year on the first day of Advent.

However, it's been a target for vandalism, having been burnt many times.

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December 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
1⃣8⃣ days to #Christmas!

At first, Christmas was not as widely observed in the United States in the early 1800s.

But it was not until 1870 when then-President Ulysses S. Grant declared it a federal holiday.

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December 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
1⃣9⃣ days to #Christmas!

Spain's autonomous region of Catalonia brought the most bizarre Christmas tradition that we've ever seen.

Say Olá to Caga Tió, a Christmas log that poops small presents and sweets that fit under a blanket.

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December 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
2⃣0⃣ days to #Christmas!

You better be good and generous this holiday season if you're a kid in Austria. If not, then be prepared to be creeped by St. Nicholas' shadowy companion - the demon Krampus.

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December 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
2⃣1⃣ days to #Christmas!

While most people usually observe Christmas on December 25, there’s another holiday celebration that many kids anticipate for in the Netherlands - Sinterklaas, or St. Nicholas Eve on December 5.

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December 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
2⃣2⃣ days to #Christmas!

In New Zealand, while there were many people that had a Christmas tree in their homes and decorate it like those in Western countries, Kiwis have their special, homegrown Christmas tree - the Pōhutukawa.

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December 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
2⃣3⃣ days to #Christmas!

Christmas was only widely celebrated in Japan for the last few decades.

While Christmas cake has been traditionally their holiday dessert, a Japanese-style feast wasn't complete without some fried chicken and, sometimes, salmon.

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December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM