In pictures: World celebrates Christmas - BBC News
Some of the best images from around the world as Christians mark the birth of Christ.
Services are being held around the world as Christians mark the birth of Christ.

Here is our selection of some of the best images so far.

At a Christmas Eve Mass in the Vatican, Pope Francis urged more "sharing and giving", denouncing the "insatiable greed" of modern consumerism

In Egypt, this little girl listened attentively during a church service in Cairo

Celebrations were held at this church in Fuyang, China's eastern Anhui province

Indian Christians took part in prayers at the Infant Jesus Church in Bangalore

This woman prayed during a Christmas service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in the Pakistani city of Lahore

People queued at this church in Bangkok to touch the baby Jesus doll in its Nativity scene

These altar boys played a key role during celebrations in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo

A young boy, part of a group of thousands of migrants travelling from Central America to the US, celebrated at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico

A Mass on Christmas Eve was held at a stadium in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city

Members of a Berlin swimming club took their traditional Christmas bath at the city's Orankesee lake

Meanwhile, this couple kissed by a Christmas tree in Istanbul, Turkey

Families at Sydney's Bondi Beach celebrated in the middle of the southern hemisphere's summer

In France, so-called "yellow vests" protesters held a service at a roundabout in the northern town of Somain

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