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Every year, the Ministry of Religious Affairs holds the National Christmas Celebration of the Republic of Indonesia. The program started in 1993 after a suggestion from Tiopan Bernhard Silalahi , who was Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform in the Sixth Development Cabinet , who has Protestant background, to the then President of ...
Christmas tree decorated with lights, stars, and glass balls Glade jul by Viggo Johansen (1891) Typical North American family decorating Christmas tree (c. 1970s). A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.
Christmas-decorated tree in Central Park Mall, Jakarta, Indonesia The Philippines reportedly has the longest Christmas season , extending from September [ a ] to January [ b ] . Over the country, parols (star shaped lanterns) are hung and lights are lit.
The Christmas tree usually stands centrally in the home, decorated with ornaments, tinsel, and lights, with an angel or a star symbolizing the Star of Bethlehem at the top. [29] Santa Claus hands gifts to children. Christmas Eve is popularly described as "the night before Christmas" in the poem actually titled "A Visit from St. Nicholas".
Christmas tree is applied to a number of plants: fir, spruce, pine, balsam or other evergreen trees decorated for Christmas; Pinus pinea or the Italian Stone Pine, is another plant commonly sold in stores as a potted live plant. [9] Christmas rose can be any of the following: Helleborus ssp., especially Helleborus niger
A Christmas tree ornament. In some places, Christmas decorations are traditionally taken down on Twelfth Night, the evening of January 5 or January 6. The difference in this date is that some count Christmas Day as the first day of Christmas, whereas for others, Christmas Day is a feast day in its own right, and the first full day of the ...
The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...
The Brussels Christmas tree in the Belgian capital sparked controversy in December 2012, as it was part of renaming the Christmas Market as "Winter Pleasures". [137] Local opposition saw it as appeasement of the Muslim minority in the city. [138] Efforts have also been made to rename official public holiday trees as "Christmas trees".