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Wearing their Santa hats, the children can be seen weaving their way through the leashes of the winter evening; lights dance alongside the roads and decorations peep from railings of apartments. The animated hum of carol singing can be heard from the Church, the services have commenced. Christmas in Pakistan opens itself out to us.
The yearly tradition of midnight Church services, Christmas gatherings, the visits to people’s homes to do carol singing and the Christmas bazaars continues this year in full fervour. Here, the Herald takes a photographic journey through the preparations and merriment seen in cities across Pakistan to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
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Dec 25, 2015 01:13pm
Good to see our Christian bothers and sisters are celebrating X'mas.
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Dec 25, 2015 01:49pm
Delightful pictures. Great to see Christmas celebrations in Pakistan.
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Dec 25, 2015 02:46pm
Lovely pictures. Merry Christmas to all our Christian brothers and sisters in Pakistan and all over the world.
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Dec 25, 2015 02:56pm
Merry Chritmas to all Christians across the world. Happy to see the tolerance and love of people of Pakistan.
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Dec 25, 2015 02:56pm
Nice to see that minorities are celebrating their festival in Pakistan....nice coverage though...
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Dec 25, 2015 05:02pm
God bless them
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Dec 25, 2015 05:33pm
The only way to beat fanaticism is to have more pictures like these across the country.
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Dec 25, 2015 06:11pm
Beautiful pictures. Merry Christmas to all Christian brothers and sisters.
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Dec 25, 2015 06:33pm
Happy Christmas , Merry Christmas to our beloved Christian brothers & sisters in Pakistan.
God bless you all.
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Dec 25, 2015 07:08pm
Merry Christmas to all celebrating in Pakistan.
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Dec 25, 2015 07:12pm
A very warm, safe, healthy, joyous, and prosperous Christmas to Christians around the world and especially to the Pakistani Christian Community.
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Dec 25, 2015 07:48pm
Merry Christmas to everyone.
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Dec 25, 2015 08:34pm
Very merry Christmas and happy new year to all. Good to see Sacred Heart Church of Karachi in glory. Pakistan Zindabad.
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Dec 25, 2015 08:59pm
What an absolute pleasure!
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Dec 25, 2015 09:50pm
We need to inculcate a culture of harmony amongst followers of all religions and live, participate, promote oneness.
All religions preach, love and peace amongst fellow countrymen and participate in their events to portray brotherhood.
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Dec 25, 2015 11:03pm
Very happy Christmas to all Christian brothers and sisters all over the world and specially in Pakistan. Very good to see all pictures. Please God send us your special mercy, kindness and blessings on us all.
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Dec 25, 2015 11:19pm
Absolutely beautiful!
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Dec 26, 2015 12:38am
Merry Christmas to all our Christian brethren
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Dec 26, 2015 01:20am
I wholeheartedly wish everyone a happy Christmas and am so glad to see the Christian community celebrating their religious event with such fervour. This friendly and tolerant atmosphere must continue as it is the need of the hour. Islam advises Muslims to be respectful of all beliefs and to particularly protect the minorities residing in our countries.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:13am
Merry Christmas, lovely pictures. I wish the Pakistan government didn't need to place security guards at places of worship and instead the people themselves looked out for each other as they were more tolerant.
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Dec 26, 2015 05:50am
Why such few photos?
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Dec 26, 2015 08:52am
Merry Christmas to all. Peace.
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Dec 26, 2015 05:57pm
Merry Christmas.
Let the peace prevail.
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Dec 26, 2015 11:30pm
Beautiful photographs. May this country one day wake up and work to attain the dream of the Quaid - which was to see persons of all faith live with rights and freedom in the country.
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Dec 27, 2015 10:39pm
It is so heartwarming to see the celebration of Xmas in these lands. We are brothers and sisters wishing for peace and love throughout the world. Celia Mendez (Argentinean living in California)
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Dec 28, 2015 07:49am
I was especially delighted to see the picture of our Catholic Church, The Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore which was built by the Belgium priests nearly a 100 years ago. I was a student at the St Anthony's school for 9 months as a boarder, as my parents lived 900 km away. Every morning we, the 120 boarders,
were woken up, bathed and dressed; our supervisors were Irish Patrician Brothers that ran our 900-strong-student-body school. We would attend H.Mass at the Cathedral which was right next door to our school. The beautiful two story building of the St Anthony's High school in Lahore, Pakistan can be searched on Google . My friends were Christians, Muslims, some Jews and a few from Kenya. We all got along like buddies.
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Dec 30, 2015 04:10pm
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and pray that the New Year brings all the love, warmth and happiness that your heart desires and may we be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
The Gouveia family
(London)
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Dec 31, 2015 04:33pm
Hope and brotherly love still exists! May it continue and last for long by the grace of the Almighty!
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