People across the world are celebrating Christmas – one of the holiest times in the Christian calendar.
PA MEDIA: Two men in festive dress check the water before a charity swim in Bournemouth, England
REUTERS: A woman attends a Christmas Day service at the St John’s Cathedral in Peshawar, Pakistan
EPA: A woman adjusts her festive headband at a Christmas market in Shanghai, China
REUTERS: Candle lighting takes place in St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria
REUTERS: A church choir member sings Christmas carols at All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya
AFP: Worshippers attend a Christmas midnight mass at Saint Catherine’s Church in Bethlehem in the West Bank
REUTERS: Catholic nuns from the Sisters of Bethlehem hold candles as they take part in mass at the Beit Jamal Monastery near Beit Shemesh, Israel
REUTERS: Men cover themselves in mud to attend a Christmas Day procession near Ugunja, in Siaya County, Kenya
GETTY IMAGES: A bishop conducts Christmas mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres in Chartres, north-central France
GETTY IMAGES: Worshippers chant during the Christmas morning mass at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Virgin Mary in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province
GETTY IMAGES: Fener-Greek Patriarch Bartholomew I leads the Christmas Mass at Hagia Yorgi Church in Istanbul, Turkey
REUTERS: A diver dressed in Santa costume feeds the fish at the Sea World Ancol aquarium during Christmas Day celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia
