Isabella Colarossi reacts as her mom, Ginger Colarossi, greets her dressed as a Christmas tree at Newark Liberty International Airport on Dec. 19, 2024.
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People dressed as Santa and his reindeers go the U.S. Capitol constructing throughout the annual Christmas Eve efficiency by the “Waterskiing Santa” alongside the Old Town Alexandria Waterfront in Alexandria, Virginia on December 24, 2024.
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Worshippers of the Legio Maria African Church Mission attend the Christmas Eve vigil mass at St. Helena Mathare Parish within the casual settlement of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya within the early hours of December 25, 2024. Legio Maria is an African impartial non secular motion amongst notably the Luo individuals of western Kenya that developed progressively and finally separated from the Roman Catholic Church within the Nineteen Sixties. The non secular motion was initiated by repeated appearances of a mystic lady delivering messages concerning the incarnation of the Son of God as a black man.
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Thousands got here out Christmas Eve morning to look at lots of of Surfing Santas take to the waves in Cocoa Beach, Fla. There have been costumes, surfers, an enormous crowd and even a browsing parrot. Proceeds from the annual occasion profit Grind for Life and the Florida Surf Museum.
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Ballet dancers carry out in “Swan Lake”, composed by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, at Donbass Opera in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on December 22, 2024.
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Santa took images and handed out items at Bubba Almony’s third Annual Christmas Toy Drive Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, on the Salisbury Moose Lodge 654 in Salisbury, Md.
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A younger butcher reveals a reduce of meat to prospects throughout the conventional Christmas eve meat public sale at Smithfield meat market, within the metropolis of London, on December 24, 2024.
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Visitors stroll at a Christmas gentle tunnel throughout the 2024 New Taipei Christmasland on Christmas eve in New Taipei City on December 24, 2024.
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Ukrainians carrying conventional garments participate in a Christmas Eve procession in Lviv on December 24, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Children carrying conventional garments carry ‘didukh’ as they participate in a Christmas Eve procession in Lviv on December 24, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ‘Didukh’ is a Ukrainian Christmas ornament product of bunches of wheat, symbolizing sacrifice and actually that means ‘spirit of grandfather’.
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Believers pray close to icons throughout Christmas service in St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, on December 24, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
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A woman carries a field containing choices throughout the Christmas mass on the Notre Dame de la Paix Cathedral in N’Djamena on December 24, 2024.
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Volunteer Ruben Arteaga Martinez readies containers for the St. Mary’s Food Bank Christmas meals distribution on Dec. 23, 2024, on the Phoenix Neighborhood Food Center.
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