Christmas Day

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed as a religious and cultural celebration by billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many countries, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season organised around it.