A diver in a Santa Claus costume swims with sardines at the Coex Aquarium on December 24, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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A diver in a Santa Claus costume swims with sardines at the Coex Aquarium on December 24, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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Children light Christingles, meaning 'Christ Light', during a service at Hong Kong's St. Paul's Cathedral during Christmas Eve on December 24, 2016.
The practice of holding Christingles is derived from a Moravian custom of distributing lit candles to children on Christmas Eve in order to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. (TENGKU BAHAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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A priest leads a Christmas Eve service for Iraqi Christians at the Mar Shimoni church in the town of Bartalla near Mosul on December 24, 2016 for the first time since its recapture from Islamic State (IS) jihadists.
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Monegasque free diver Pierre Frolla (L) poses with a man during the traditional Christmas Swim in Monaco on December 24, 2016. YANN COATSALIOU/AFP/Getty Images)
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Children wearing Santa hats take part with a group of musicians playing music to celebrate Christmas in a make-shift church built out of corrugated steel sheets on December 24, 2016 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Many Christians in Nepal celebrate Christmas by copying traditional European Christmas symbols. (Photo by Tom Van Cakenberghe/Getty Images)
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People take part in the traditional Christmas Swim in Monaco on December 24, 2016. (YANN COATSALIOU/AFP/Getty Images)
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Chloe, a Lebanese Christian teenager dressed as Santa Claus, holds a Syrian refugee on December 24, 2016 during a gift distribution organised by the maronite congregation "Mission de Vie" in a slum in the town of Dbayeh, north of Beirut. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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Sri Lankan pedestrians walk past a partially-constructed Christmas tree in Colombo on December 24, 2016. (LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, prays during the Christmas Eve celebrations on December 24, 2016 at the Church of the Nativity, revered as the site of Jesus Christ's birth, in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem.
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Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C), apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, is welmoed by clergymen during the Christmas Eve celebrations on December 24, 2016 outside the Church of the Nativity, revered as the site of Jesus Christ's birth, in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem.
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An Indian man dressed as Santa Claus waves to children from a horse cart to mark Christmas Eve in Siliguri on December 24, (DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Father Jean Rouet (L) celebrates Christmas mass in the Arlette Gruss circus tent in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on Christmas eve. (THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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Father Jean Rouet (L) celebrates Christmas mass in the Arlette Gruss circus tent in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on Christmas eve. (THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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People look at stalls at a Christmas market near the Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on Christmas eve, December 24, 2016. (MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)
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A woman walks past an advertising poster with Santa Claus in central Saint Petersburg on December, 24, 2016. (Photo credit: OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Indian Christian devotees watch a fireworks display marking Christmas Eve outside St. Peter's Church in Allahabad on December 24, 2016. (Photo credit: SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Crowds of people celebrate Christmas at shopping area in Tsim Sha Tsui where is full of festive decorations on December 24, 2016 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Photo by Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II sits at a desk in the Regency Room in Buckingham Palace in London, after recording her Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth on December 25, 2016. (Photo credit: YUI MOK/AFP/Getty Images)
People take part in the Christmas Eve celebrations on December 24, 2016 at the Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, revered as the site of Jesus Christ's birth, in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem.
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A gendarme stands guard in front of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on Christmas eve, December 24, 2016, ahead of midnight mass. (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)
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A woman and boy travel by rickshaw driven by a man in a Father Christmas costume along Oxford Street on December 24, 2016 in London, England. Christmas shoppers hunt for last minute presents in central London on Christmas Eve. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
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Belarus locals dressed as Father Frost and Snow Maidens march along a street during a traditional Christmas parade in Minsk on December 24, 2016. (Photo credit: SERGEI GAPON/AFP/Getty Images)
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A member of the volunteer Water Skiing Christmas Show, including a water skiing Santa Claus with elves, reindeer, the Grinch, and others, does a full flip on a hydrofoil waterski chair December 24, 2016, on the Potomac River, in Alexandria, Virginia, just down the river from Washington, DC. (Photo credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the volunteer Water Skiing Christmas Show, including a water skiing Santa Claus with elves, reindeer, the Grinch, and others, water ski December 24, 2016, on the Potomac River, in Alexandria, Virginia, just down the river from Washington, DC. (Photo credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Clergymen celebrate Christmas mass at the Saint Joseph Cathedral in Allahabad late on December 24, 2016. (Photo credit: SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/Getty Images)
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A ferris wheel is seen at central Syntagma square in Athens on December 24, 2016. (Photo credit: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinian Christians attend Christmas mass at the Holy Family Church, in Gaza City on December 24, 2016. (Photo credit: SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Santa Claus celebrates during the second half against the Miami Dolphins at New Era Stadium on December 24, 2016 in Orchard Park, New York. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)
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Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East John X Yazigi leads prayers during Christmas mass at the Elias Orthodox Church in Aleppo on December 24, 2016. (Photo credit: GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pope Francis looks at a figurine of baby Jesus as he celebrates a mass on Christmas eve marking the birth of Jesus Christ on December 24, 2016 at St Peter's basilica in Vatican. (Photo credit: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Roman Catholic priests pray during the service at Saint Anthony of Padua Church in Istanbul on Christmas Eve, on December 24, 2016. (Photo credit: YASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images)
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Roman Catholics light candles as they take part in the Christmas eve mass at the Saint Anthony of Padua Church in Istanbul on December 24, 2016. (Photo credit: YASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pope Francis celebrates during a mass on Christmas eve marking the birth of Jesus Christ on December 24, 2016 at St Peter's basilica in Vatican. (Photo credit: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Sri Lankan boy sleeps as others pray during the Christmas mass in Colombo on December 25, 2016. Christians account for some six percent of Sri Lanka's 21 million people. (Photo credit: ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Indonesian Christians attend a Christmas Eve service at a church in Surabaya, East Java province, on December 24, 2016.
Indonesian police on December 22 announced plans to deploy some 155,000 personnel to secure the country during Christmas and New Year holidays, a day after police foiled plans for militant attacks. (Photo credit: JUNI KRISWANTO/AFP/Getty Images)
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The McCormack family from Portland, Oregon in the USA, pose alongside the sandcastle Christmas tree they had made at Bondi Beach on December 25, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Bondi Beach is a popular tourist destination on Christmas Day. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)
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Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C), apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, holds the Baby Jesus in Saint Catherine's Church at the end of the Christmas Midnight Mass and walks in procession to the 'Grotto', where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, in the adjacent Church of the Nativity on December 25, 2016 in Bethlehem, West Bank. (Photo credit: MUSA AL SHAER/AFP/Getty Images)
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A policeman wearing a Christmas hat patrols Bondi Beach on Christmas Day in Sydney on December 25, 2016. (Photo credit: PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (L) and Britain's Camilla Duchess of Cornwall (C) arrive to attend the Royal family Christmas Day church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, eastern England, on December 25, 2016.
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Priests lead a Christmas Day mass at Mar Hanna church in Qaraqosh on December 25, 2016 in Mosul, Iraq. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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A young Myanmar woman holds a child as she poses with Christmas light decorations in Yangon on December 25, 2016. YUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Iraqi odontology student dressed in a Santa Claus outfit poses for a picture with a baby in the Iraqi holy Shiite city of Najaf on December 25, 2016 (HAIDAR HAMDANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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People take selfies and celebrate Christmas outside the Taipei 101 building on December 25, 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images)
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Crowds of people celebrate Christmas at the Christmasland in New Taipei City on December 25, 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images)
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