Страшный Санта Клаус
Национальный стадион в Пекине
Epiphany Day в Софии, Болгария
Церковь в г.Новогрудок, недалеко от Минска
Men perform the traditional Bulgarian "Horo" dance in the icy winter waters of the river Tundzha in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria some 200 km east of the capital Sofia, during the Epiphany Day celebrations
Маленький Санта в Секторе Газа
A man rides in his cart, pulled by ponies, before the annual horse race organized by Orthodox believers in the Romanian village of Pietrosani, 45km north of Bucharest, Romania on Epiphany Day
Папа Benedict XVI на балконе базилики Святого Петра с посланием "Urbi et Orbi"
A catholic woman reads the Bible after a Christmas Eve mass at the temporary Bailu Township Church
Приземление Санты в Сиднее, Австралия
A man dressed as a Krampus, traditionally the companion of St. Nicholas who might dole out punishment to bad children. One of Austria's unique Advent traditions, this man is seen as a part of a Krampus procession in the city of Unken, Austria
A child attends a Christmas carol mass at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa
Christian pilgrims from Nigeria are seen inside the Church of Nativity, believed by many to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem
Багдад
Китайские дети-ангелочки
A man dressed as Santa Claus holds a mock goose as runners take a break after the "Gaensebratenvernichtungslauf", or roast goose fat reduction run, at Berlin's Grunewald forest in Germany
A Catholic woman lights a candle at the St. Esprit Church during the Christmas mass at midnight, in Harbiye, downtown Istanbul, Turkey
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fuad Twal (center) carries a statue of baby Jesus following the Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem
Исламабад, Пакистан
Pope Benedict XVI prays at the nativity scene in St Peter's Square, shortly after presiding over Vespers and Te Deum prayer in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatica
A Bosnian Roman Catholic woman prays during a Christmas mass in Sarajevo's main cathedral
Runners, dressed as Santa Claus, one of them carrying a cross on his shoulders to resemble Jesus Christ, take part of the "Christmas Corrida Race" in the streets of Issy Les Moulineaux, west outskirts of Paris
A man dressed as a Father Frost stands by the road in centre of Kiev, Ukraine
Ukrainian Orthodox believers attend the Christmas Eve religious service in the Carpathian settlement of Ilintsy, some 700 km west of Kiev
A Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim makes the sign of the cross as he attends Christmas mass in the golden-domed Alexander Nevsky cathedral, in central Sofia
Swimmer, Joshoua Samios holds the cross after retrieving it from the water, during a traditional ceremony to bless the water in Greece's Perama port near Athens
A diver in Santa Claus costume rides a bicycle inside a shark tank at the Sea World in Jakarta, Indonesia
Around 1,000 bonfires are lit up on the hills surrounding the southern village of Pottenstein
