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English> Chrismas - tree, please do not kill trees for Chrismas, it

has nothing to do with Jesus, its an INNOVATION from Pagan-time to
procecute the TREE-worshippers and the story differs,
 Birthdate was 6th of January like the Orthodox do and 25 th done
worldwide celebrated, as the CHRISMAS and pagan worshipping SUN coming
up again was put together

Read more > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

"Christmas Day" redirects here. For other uses, see Christmas
(disambiguation) and Christmas Day (disambiguation).

Christmas

A depiction of the Nativity with a Christmas tree backdrop.
Also called     Noel
Yule
Feast of the Nativity
Observed by     Christians
Many non-Christians[1]
Type    Christian, cultural
Significance    Traditional birthday of Jesus
Date    December 25 (alternatively January 6, 7 or 19)[2][3][4] (see
below)

Observances     Church services, gift giving, family and other social
gatherings, symbolic decorating
Related to      Christmastide, Christmas Eve, Advent, Annunciation,
Epiphany, Baptism of the Lord, Yule
Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crīstesmæsse, literally
"Christ's mass") is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus
Christ,[5][6] celebrated generally on December 25[2][3][4] as a
religious and cultural holiday by billions of people around the world.
A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent
season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide.[7] Christmas is
a civil holiday in many of the world's nations,[8][9][10] is
celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians,[1][11][12] and
is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season.

The precise day of Jesus' birth, which historians place between 7 and
2 BC, is unknown.[13] In the early-to-mid 4th century, the Western
Christian Church first placed Christmas on December 25, a date later
adopted also in the East.[14][15] Theories advanced to explain that
choice include that it falls exactly nine months after the Christian
celebration of the conception of Jesus,[16] or that it was selected to
coincide with either the date of the Roman winter solstice[17] or of
some ancient pagan winter festival.[16][18]

The original date of the celebration in Eastern Christianity was
January 6, in connection with Epiphany, and that is still the date of
the celebration for the Armenian Apostolic Church and in Armenia,
where it is a public holiday. As of 2011, there is a difference of 13
days between the modern Gregorian calendar and the older Julian
calendar. Those who continue to use the Julian calendar or its
equivalents thus celebrate December 25 and January 6 on what for the
majority of the world is January 7 and January 19. For this reason,
Ethiopia, Russia and Ukraine celebrate Christmas, both as a Christian
feast and as a public holiday, on what in the Gregorian calendar is
January 7.

The popular celebratory customs associated in various countries with
Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian and secular themes
and origins.[19] Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift
giving, Christmas music and caroling, an exchange of Christmas cards,
church celebrations, a special meal, and the display of various
decorations, including Christmas trees, lights, nativity scenes,
garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly. In addition, several closely
related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus,
Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas and Kris Kringle among other names,
are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas
season and have their own body of traditions and lore.[20] Because
gift-giving and many other aspects of the Christmas festival involve
heightened economic activity among both Christians and non-Christians,
the holiday has become a significant event and a key sales period for
retailers and businesses. The economic impact of Christmas is a factor
that has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of
the world.

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slm and good outcome be with us from Almighty, see future of "Coming World", http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now
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the light is one,
 when it arrives the houses,
it takes
 a hundred shadows,
lay down the walls
 and it becomes one again

from Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, Saint of 12th.Century , joy with Almighty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ch0JdW2bn0&feature=player_embedded