In Pictures: Christmas celebrations around the world

25 Dec 2020, 09:54 | Updated: 25 Dec 2020

Australia Christmas at Bondi Beach — Australia Daily Life. Picture: PA

With coronavirus limiting traditional church services and families forced to stay apart, December 25 is being marked in different ways.

Festive traditions around the world may have been compromised by Covid-19 restrictions, but families and communities are still doing their best to celebrate.

Virus Outbreak India Christmas — A caretaker cleans the aisle of St John in the Wilderness church in Dharmsala, India (Ashwini Bhatia/AP)

Kosovo KFOR Christmas — Italian soldiers watch a Christmas tree being lit in the Nato-led peacekeeping mission headquarters in Kosovo’s capital Pristina (KFOR/AP)

Virus Outbreak Sri Lanka Christmas — A Sri Lankan girl wears a Santa hair band and a face mask as a precaution against coronavirus (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Pakistan Christmas — Christians wearing face masks attend a Christmas Mass in Our Lady of Fatima Church in Islamabad, Pakistan (Anjum Naveed/AP)

Virus Outbreak South Korea — Christians attend an online Christmas service at Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea (Lee Jin-man/AP)

Christmas in Beijing — A child poses for photos outside Wangfujing Church in Beijing (Ng Han Guan/AP)

Virus Outbreak South Africa Christmas — A worshipper wearing a face mask stands in front of lit candles prior to a morning Mass at Rosebank Catholic Church in Johannesburg (Denis Farrell/AP)

Australia Daily Life — A couple rollerskate along the promenade on Christmas Day at Sydney’s Bondi Beach (Mark Baker/AP)

Virus Outbreak Canada Christmas Eve — The Rev Abraham Lukose holds a Holy Communion service, with limited attendance, at Merciful Redeemer Parish in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (Chris Young/Canadian Press/AP)

Haiti Christmas — A street vendor sells Christmas hats in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Dieu Nalio Chery/AP)

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