More than 1,000 volunteers clad in Santa Claus costumes cheer as they gather to deliver gifts for the poor in downtown Seoul, South Korea.
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Visitors play with shredded papers with Christmas decorations to celebrate the festival season at a shopping mall in Hong Kong.
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Iraqi Christians attend a mass on Christmas Eve at St. Joseph Chaldean Church in Baghdad.
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Families and those without enjoy their Christmas Eve meal hosted by the Los Angeles Mission in downtown Los Angeles.
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James Morgan, 2, plays on surfboards at Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia.
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NATO troops from the International Security Assistance Force pray during a Christmas Eve mass at Bagram Airfield, north of Kabul, in Afghanistan.
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Indonesian Javanese Christians receive communion during Christmas eve mass at Ganjuran church in Yogyakarta.
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A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume swims with fish at Qingdao Underwater World in Qingdao, China.
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Christians attend mass on the eve of Christmas at a church in Libyan capital Tripoli.
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Santa and Mrs Claus, aka Roray Kam and Victoria Burgess, ride the waves off of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on Christmas Eve.
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Women wear festive hats while traveling on the subway through Midtown, Manhattan on Christmas Eve.
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A timber truck driver (left) dressed as Father Frost is saluted by a soldier in Moscow.
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Priests process to attend the Christmas celebration midnight mass at the Cathedral-Basilical in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Members of Harts the Butchers sell off surplus meats during the annual Christmas Eve meat auction at Smithfield Meat Market in London.
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People gather at San Francisco Square in front of a Christmas tree, in La Paz, Bolivia.
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A couple participates in a kissing competition to celebrate Christmas in China’s Hubei province. The competition requires the participants to kiss in different postures for a prize worth about $2,500.
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Scott Relf, right, and his girlfriend Lauren Harris laugh as they stand in the rain on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
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Indian Christians hold candles ahead of Christmas in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013.
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Christian religious leaders perform Syro-Malankara Rite, a ritual, at the illuminated Sacred Heart’s Cathedral on Christmas Eve in New Delhi, India.
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A couple look at the illuminated decoration to celebrate the festival season on Christmas eve in Hong Kong.
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Lucy O’Grady hugs her little sister Poppie O’Grady o keep her warm as the visitors from Birmingham in the United Kingdom celebrate Christmas Day at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
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Pope Francis delivers his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the City and to the World) message from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013.
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An Iraqi Orthodox Christian refugee attends a morning Christmas mass at the Saint Afram Syrian Orthodox Church in Amman, Jordan.
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A little girl stands in a plastic globe containing fake snow in Athens’ festively decorated Klathmonos Square.
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A diver dressed as Santa Claus surfaces after swimming in the Coral Garden tank at the South East Asia Aquarium of Resorts World Sentosa, a popular tourist attraction in Singapore.
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A worker carries roasted pig outside a store in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines. Roasted pig is traditionally served during a Christmas eve dinner called “Noche Buena” in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation.
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