IN PHOTOS: 'Tis the weekend before Christmas
December 23, 2012 | 12:00pm
In this photo taken late Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, Bosnian children talk to Santa Claus at a Christmas market in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. With its religiously mixed, but predominantly Muslim and atheist population, Sarajevo does not have a tradition of Christmas markets. But for the second year running, Sarajevo authorities have decided to set up a holiday market in the city centre to cheer up the atmosphere ahead of the New Year, one holiday nearly everyone in the country celebrates. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
MANILA, Philippines - Now that the doomsday scare is out of our minds, we can now focus on a happier event: Christmas.
How's the Christmas season like so far in countries around the world? Scroll down and find out.
Many Filipinos traditionally attend nine consecutive dawn masses before Christmas in this largely Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A young child wearing a festive hat sleeps in a horse cart during a Christmas procession in Jammu, India, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Carmen, right hugs her daughter Azahara after winning part of the main Christmas lottery prize “El Gordo” (“The Fat One”) in Alcala de Henares, just outside of Madrid, Saturday Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul White)
A man dressed in a Santa Claus costume chats on his cell phone as he works at a dog boutique where customer's dogs wearing Christmas costumes walk around in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Christmas shoppers look at luxury goods on display at department store in the center of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Christmas lights stretch across the street on Natal Circle Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)
People stroll around a 26 meter (85 foot) Christmas tree in Porto, Portugal, Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012.(AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)
A Chinese girl poses for a photo near Christmas decoration on display outside a shopping mall in Beijing Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. Although Christmas not traditionally celebrated in China, some shopping malls welcome the festival with colorful decoration, as a chance to boost year end sales. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
The Christmas season kicked off at the Vatican with the traditional lighting of the tree in St. Peter's Square — and a reminder from the Pope about what happened when the "lights" of God were turned off in past atheistic regimes. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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