In pictures: Christmas around the world
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Mass was held at midnight at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank
Irish tourist Gemma Woods tries valiantly to recreate a northern hemisphere Christmas in Sydney, Australia
It was another typically warm Christmas Day on Sydney's Bondi Beach - good selfie weather
Francis... ish: A paper Pope appeared at a service in Taiwan
Christians attend a service in Surabaya, Indonesia
Worshippers gather at St Paul's Cathedral in Australia's Melbourne, that had been the target of a failed terror plot
Security was also tight at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, days after a terror attack on a Christmas market in Berlin
Pope Francis kisses a statue of the baby Jesus during Midnight Mass at the Vatican
A churchgoer in Colombo, Sri Lanka, receives holy communion