Christmas and holiday season
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The Christmas season or the festive season, also known as the holiday season or the holidays, is an annual period generally spanning from November or December to early January incorporating Christmas
Christmas tree in Japan. Christmas is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians around the world.
Midwinter sunset at Stonehenge
Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine-François Callet, showing his interpretation of what the Roman Saturnalia might have looked like
Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632
Christmas controversies
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Christmas is the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, which, in Western Christian churches, is held annually on 25 December. For centuries, it has been the subject of several reformatio
A 1931 edition of the Soviet magazine Bezbozhnik, published by the League of Militant Atheists, depicting an Orthodox Christian priest being forbidden to take home a tree for the celebration of Christmastide, which was banned under the Marxist–Leninist doctrine of state atheism
A mosaic dated to around 300 AD in the Tomb of the Julii, an apparently Christian tomb in the Vatican Necropolis. Most scholars believe it depicts Jesus as the sun god Sol / Helios.
Modern celebrations of Christmas include more commercial activity in comparison with those of the past.
Season's Greetings, 1942–1943.