Christmas is my favorite holiday, I'm so glad billions of people around the world get to celebrate it too.
Are you sure that billions of people do celebrate it? I'm not sure that in Asian countries, this holiday is very popular
Well it is celebrated by many non-Christians as well as a majority of Christians. Consider all the Christians in Europe as well.
That's true, in South America as well.  It's just that almost half of the world's population is in China and India where I have doubt about the popularity of Christmas
That's a good point, but there are Christians where you do not expect it, for instance Christians now make up 10-15% of the Middle Eastern population
Wow, I didn't know that.  I hope that their government let them celebrate this special holiday in peace.  In some of these countries, the religious police can be quite oppressive
That's very true, in places like Saudi Arabia they have what is considered the worst of the wrost conditions for political and civil rights.
There is a Canadian blogger, Raif Badawi that has been convicted to ten years in jail plus 1000 lashes only for expressing his thoughts online in Saudi Arabia
in prison, 1000 lashes, and a fine. The flogging was to be carried out over 20 weeks. The first 50 lashes were administered on 9 January 2015. The second flogging has been postponed more than twelve times. The reason for the most recent postponement is unknown, but the previous scheduled floggings were delayed due to Badawi's poor health. Badawi is known to have hypertension, and his health has worsened since the flogging began.
His wife, Ensaf Haidar, who took refuge in Canada after her life was
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