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Posted by Lawrence Morgan on January 7, 2013 at 12:24 a.m.

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Today, January 7, is the Orthodox Christmas

Malaysian Insider Photograph by Lawrence Morgan

A woman walks past the Orthodox Svyato-Nikolsky church in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

The Orthodox Christmas is today, January 7

From the Jersulem Maan News Agency in the Middle East, Bethlehem prepares for the Orthodox Christmas.

http://maannews.net/ENG/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=553667

Here are pictures of Orthodox Christmas celebrations throughout the world.

http://www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/24817246.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20929439

And many more, from Al Jezeera:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2013/01/20131712145036296.html

President Vladimir Putin celebrates Christmas at Holy Trinity St George Monastery in Sochi, Russia. It is an Orthodox tradition to go to church Christmas eve and celebrate the divine liturgy past midnight through the early morning hours of Christmas day.

Christmas in Ethiopia, with a fast beforehand for advent (Sibket, in Amharic).

The Christian Post explains the difference in dates:

http://www.christianpost.com/news/why-the-orthodox-church-celebrates-christmas-on-jan-7-66615/

Christmas ornaments in Russia are made by hand.

http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20121226/178412286.html

Moscow Catholics at the Russian Christmas Midnight Mass.

http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20121226/178408217.html

Russian Orthodox Christmas and Orthodox Christmas in the West Bank:

The Russian Chjristmas Eve ceremony (January 6) in Moscow. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attends the ceremony.

An Orthodox Christmas parade today, January 7, 2013, in Tbilisi, Georgia (the country, not the state):

Other views of Christmas from around the world.

http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20121224/178371918.html

Russian Patriarch Krill addresses Russians on Orthodox Christmas day (January 7).

I will also post just one of many beautiful pieces on the net, Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31, "The Mercy of Peace", and I will especially dedicate this to the suffering of Syrians in the Middle East and the dreadful fighting in the Congo.