People celebrating Christmas around the world with religious ceremonies and family gatherings to elaborate light shows and crazy costumes.
People take part in an annual Christmas bath in the Warta river, with the outdoor temperature reaching 10 degrees below zero near Lodz, Poland on December 23.
A window cleaner dressed as Santa Claus works at a shopping mall in Tokyo on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012.
Residents lift up a Santa Claus figurine which they decorated in an alley as part of Christmas celebrations in Karachi on December 24, 2012.
Models pose during the Miss Christmas competition in Yangon, Myanmar on December 24, 2012.
Indian schoolchildren dressed as Santa Claus ride on a cycle-rickshaw through a street in Amritsar, India on December 24, 2012. Despite Christians forming a little over 2 percent of the billion plus population in India, Christmas is celebrated with much fanfare and zeal throughout the country.
Guatemalan firefighter Hector Chacon, dressed as Santa Claus, rappels down from the Belize bridge to give toys to children living in the area under the bridge, a very poor area of Guatemala City, on December 23, 2012. The Guatemalan firefighters have been giving toys to the children living in the neighborhoods under the Belize bridge dressed as Santa Claus for 15 years.
Children dressed in Santa Claus outfits line up before a Christmas celebration at a kindergarten in Hanoi on December 24, 2012.
Santa Claus water-skis on the Potomac River near Washington, DC, on December 24, 2012, at the National Harbor in Maryland during th 27th Annual Water Skiing show. This unusual annual event features a water-skiing Santa, flying elves, the Jet-skiing Grinch, and Frosty the Snowman performing on the Potomac River.
A police officer dressed in a Santa Claus costume with the blue color representing the police, walks in the Macacos slum after arriving in a police helicopter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. The Pacifying Police Unit, or UPP, organized for Santa to visit the pacified slum to hand out Christmas gifts to young residents.
A man dressed as Santa Claus holds 1-week-old Zachary Nicolson for a Christmas visit at Twelve Oaks Mall on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, in Novi, Mich.