Christmas Eve around the Middle East - in pictures
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Altar servers and the cross bearer walk down the aisle during a Christmas mass celebrated with displaced worshippers at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza city. AFP -
Fr Chito Bunda Bartolo, parish priest of St Joseph's Church in Abu Dhabi, leads the 8pm Christmas Eve mass on December 24. Victor Besa / The National -
Emmanuel Gharib, chairman of the National Evangelical Church Kuwait and pastor of the Kuwait Presbyterian Church, leads a Christmas mass at a church in Kuwait City. AFP -
Worshippers attend Christmas Eve mass at the Church of St Peter in Antakya, Turkey, considered one of the oldest churches in Christendom. AFP -
People carry children dressed in festive costumes near a Christmas tree in Dubai. Reuters -
Hussein Al Sheikh, Vice President of the Palestinian Authority, centre, greets Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa during a Christmas midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. AFP -
Children celebrate Christmas Eve in the southern Lebanese border village of Alma Al Shaab, near the Israeli border. AP -
People walk along a decorated street during Christmas celebrations in Lakatia, Syria. EPA -
A Catholic priest walks down the aisle during a Christmas Eve service attended by Iraqi Christians at the Syriac Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Iraq's southern city of Basra. AFP -
An Iranian woman poses for a photo in front of a shop selling Christmas decorations in Tehran. Reuters
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