Merry Christmas and well wishes from Bashar! Syria pic.twitter.com ZC3wuM0lp7 رهام ( Rehambo) December 24, 2013

The first Christmas is as ordinary as possible. I try to ignore the imminent threat and have an ordinary family Christmas, trying to ease my mother s fears and wishes for me to stay safe.

Merry Christmas!

The tale of his redemption by the three Ghosts of Christmas (Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) has become a defining tale of the Christmas holiday in the English speaking world.

1717 December 24 25 night Christmas flood ( Kerstvloed ) see Christmas flood 1717.

Christmas drew near.

America s Perpetual Christmas

Ukraine s Orange Christmas

Christmas in Syria.

Our Christmas Turkey.

Christmas as an act of resistance I wasn t going to let them steal my Christmas.

A Very Tolerant Christmas

Merry Christmas from Yemen!

United States Kentucky based Joi's Get Cooking, provides recipes for both Christmas cookies and Christmas doughnuts.

It is painful even to attempt to hope and write new year s resolutions. It s painful that the greatest of your Christmas wishes is the forced displacement of those whom you believe have a just cause.

It was like Christmas morning.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

As Christmas is celebrated throughout Latin America, families and friends get together to have dinner on Christmas Eve.

We gather there after the boring Thanksgiving family dinner or the family feasts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

Will you be home for Christmas?

The Operating System that Stole Christmas

Christmas tree decorated by Thalia's mom.

Together with the Christmas tree, Sankt Niklaus, as the Germans called the benefactor, became a central figure in German Christmas habits.

Layla sent Sami an online Christmas card.

Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7.

Should we consider them a Christmas gift?!

Anyone having a white Christmas this year?

My mother's house, where I'm spending Christmas.

Nicole of Moving to Morocco shares photos of her first Christmas in Morocco, complete with Christmas tree, remarking upon the surprising cost

So, I was born two days after Christmas.

My aunt gave me a book for Christmas.

My aunt gave me a book for Christmas.

Sami hung a cookie on the Christmas tree.

I used to look very colorful at Christmas.

Maybe this is what Christmas is all about.

To smuggle a Christmas tree through ISIS checkpoints.

British Columbia's Provincial legislature buildings decorated for Christmas.

I'm having a quiet Christmas, so sharing a photo of my little Christmas tree, made by the metal artisans of Croix des Bouquets, Haiti.

In the UK and Ireland, the Christmas shopping season starts from mid November, around the time when high street Christmas lights are turned on.

Connie in Morocco, a Peace Corps blogger, is ambivalent about the Christmas season torn between missing home and not missing the commercialism of American Christmas

Turku is also the official Christmas city of Finland, and 'Christmas Peace' in Finland is declared on every 24 December from the Brinkkala Hall balcony.

Mixed Wishes

No wishes.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.