Look: Christmas celebrations in UAE and across the world

Christmas Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Dubai. Thousands of worshippers attended churches in the UAE to sing carols, attend mass and come together on a spiritual and festive occasion.

Pope Francis celebrates Christmas Eve mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Pope Francis started the global celebrations with a call for peace during Christmas Eve mass at Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

Worshippers during Christmas mass at Mar Thoma Parish in Sharjah.

The churches were filled with people of several nationalities celebrating as a community. Above, mass at Holy Trinity Church in Dubai..

Members of the clergy attend a Christmas mass at Saint Catherine's Church, in the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 25, 2023.

Members of the Berliner Seehunde (Berlin seals) ice swimmers club swim at the Oranke Lake public swimming beach with the traditional Christmas Day swimming event in Berlin, Germany, December 25, 2023.

A family poses for pictures at a Christmas display at the Quezon Memorial Circle during Christmas in Quezon City, Metro Manila.

Santa Claus rides past a cyclist along a street engulfed in fog on Christmas in New Delhi on December 25, 2023.

People light candles at the St. Paul's Church in Amritsar, India.

People gather around a Christmas tree at a business area with artificial snow in China's southwestern Chongqing municipality.

Faithful attend a Christmas Mass on Christmas day at the Holy Family Basilica in Nairobi, Kenya December 25, 2023.

People hold candles during Christmas Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

Iranian women take selfies in front of Christmas and New Year decorations displayed at a shop in Tehran on Christmas Eve.

Children attend a Christmas celebration organized by the "Los Chicos de la Via" soup kitchen in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

U.N French peacekeepers give a gift to a girl at Saint-Joseph des Saints-Coeurs School in Ain Ebel, a Lebanese Christian border village with Israel, in south Lebanon, on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023. Christians in the border villages of south Lebanon prepared for a subdued Christmas under the shadow of the ongoing war in Gaza and its spillover in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

The Ohkay Owingeh pueblo members participate in mass to celebrate the Christmas season in Ohkay Owingeh. Pueblos throughout the Rio Grande region continue gathering to celebrate Christmas and native customs during the holiday season.

A woman takes a photo of her child next to a Christmas tree at a season festival to celebrate Christmas in Al A'ali Mall, Manama, Bahrain.

Children from Zografyon Greek High School and members of the Greek Orthodox community sing during a Christmas celebration at the courtyard of Hagia Triada Orthodox Church in central Istanbul, Turkey.

Christian devotees pray at a Christmas mass in the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore on December 25, 2023.

A Christian choir performs during Christmas Eve mass, marking the birth of Jesus Christ, at Mother Teresa Cathedral in Pristina.