एजेन्सी । हरेक वर्ष डिसेम्बर २५ तारिखमा संसारभरी क्रिसमस मनाइन्छ । आज विश्वभरी नै यो दिन विशेष महत्वका साथ मनाईरहेका छन् । क्रिसमसको पूर्व सन्ध्या भेटिकनमा भएको प्रार्थना सभामा पोप फ्रान्सिसले आफूलाई भन्दा दोस्रो व्यक्तिका लागि राम्रो काम गर्न आह्वान गर्दै लालच छोड्न र कम खर्च गर्न अपिल गरे । मिश्रको एक चर्चमा भइरहेको प्रार्थना सभामा दिइएको उपदेशलाई ध्यानपूर्वक बालिकाहरु सुन्छन् । टर्कीको राजधानी इस्तानबुलमा क्रिसमस ट्री नजिकै चुम्बन गरिरहेको जोडी देख्न सकिन्छ ।

ताइवानको राजधानी ताइपेईको यो चर्चमा पोप फ्रान्सिसको कार्डबोर्ड कटआउट राखिएको छ । डेमोक्रेटिक रिपब्लिक अफ कन्गोको राजधानी किनशासामा उत्सव मनाउँदै ईसाई छात्रहरु देख्न सकिन्छ । मेक्सिकाको तिख्वाना प्रान्तमा एक शरणार्थी शिविरमा क्रिसमस पर्व मनाइरहेका प्रवासीको समूहमा संलग्न एक बालक । ल्याटिन अमेरिकी देशबाट निकालिएका हज्जारौं प्रवासीको समूह अमेरिकी सीमातर्फ बढिरहेको छ । फ्रान्सको उत्तरी शहर सोम्माको एक चौबाटामा प्रार्थना सभा गरिरहेका स्वघोषित येल्लो वेस्ट (पहेँलो जर्सी) प्रदर्शनकारीहरु देख्न सकिन्छ ।

चीनको राजधानी बेइजिङको एक चर्चमा शान्त भएर प्रार्थना गरिरहेकी स्थानीय महिलाहरुको झुण्ड देखिन्छ । संयुक्त अरब इमिरेट्सको दुबईको सान्ता मारिया चर्चमा प्रार्थना सभामा समावेश स्थानीयहरुलाई नियाल्न सकिन्छ । बेलायतकी महारानी एलिजाबेथले क्रिसमसका लागि सन्देश दिएपछि लण्डनको बकिङ्घम प्यालेसको ह्वाइट ड्रविङ रुमा खिचाएको तस्बिरलाई देख्न सकिन्छ । पाकिस्तानको लाहोरस्थित चर्चमा प्रार्थना गर्दै एक महिलालाई नियाल्न सकिन्छ । दक्षिण कोरियाका निम्नवर्गीय बालबालिकालाई उपहार दिन एकै ठाउँ जम्मा भएका स्वयंसेवकहरुलाईपनि तस्विरमा देख्न सकिन्छ ।

[caption id="attachment_178407" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] A tourist has her photo taken wearing a Santa hat on Christmas Day on Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 25, 2018. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178408" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] Tourists have a photo taken wearing Santa hats next to a Christmas tree on Christmas Day on Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 25, 2018. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178409" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] Pakistani Christians attend midnight services at St. Anthony's Church to celebrate Christmas in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178410" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] FILE - In this July 4, 2010 file photo, Rafael Moreno Valle, candidate of the "Compromiso por Puebla" party coalition, flashes two thumbs up after casting his vote during state elections in Puebla, Mexico. Moreno Valle, who went on to win the 2010 gubernatorial race, died in what local media are reporting as a helicopter crash on Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018, along with his wife Martha Erika Alonso, who is currently the governor of Puebla. (AP Photo/Joel Merino, File)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178411" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] Children walk past a statue of baby Jesus at the end of the Christmas Eve Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178412" align="aligncenter" width="1440"] A priest distributes communion wafers during Christmas midnight mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018. Though the Hindus and Muslims comprise majority of the population in India, Christmas is a national holiday celebrated with much fanfare. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178413" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] In this image released on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018, Britain's Queen Elizabeth poses for a photograph after she recorded her annual Christmas Day message, in the White Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace, London. (John Stillwell/Pool via AP)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178414" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Migrants line up for a food distribution as part of a Christmas celebration outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178415" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] Sheikha Behbehani distributes sweets during Christmas mass at the National Evangelical Church in Kuwait City on December 24, 2018. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178416" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] Roberta (L) and Andrea Leoncini from Rome, Italy, take a selfie with the White House in the background in Washington, DC on December 24, 2018. - Andrea and Roberta complained to AFP about the closing of some tourist venues as the government partially shut for a third day in an impasse over President Donald Trump's demand for border wall funding. With Congress out of town and the debate over Trump's demand for a $5 billion US-Mexico border wall at an impasse, the president sat holed up, tweeting no less than 10 times by early afternoon to lash out at opponents and reject responsibility for a plummeting stock market. (Photo by Eric BARADAT / AFP)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178417" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] Kuwaiti Christians attend Christmas mass at the National Evangelical Church in Kuwait City on December 24, 2018. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178418" align="aligncenter" width="432"] (181224) -- BUCHAREST, Dec. 24, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Two little girls pose for photos with a person in Santa Claus costume at Bucharest Winter Market at University Square, in Bucharest, Romania, on Dec. 24, 2018. (Xinhua/Gabriel Petrescu)[/caption]

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