While Christmas celebration may vary from house-to-house in America, there's an even wider array of celebrations throughout the world.
In the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the town of Jesus' birth, pilgrims traditionally gather for holiday prayers and an outdoor song festival.
Pictured here on Christmas Day was a Christian woman kissing the hand of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, during Christmas Day mass held at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Sabbah, the Catholic leader in the Holy Land, issued a holiday call for Middle East peace in his address to pilgrims who flocked to the city.