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OrthodoxOften individual Orthodox families will decide to
celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25th if they live in a country where
the majority celebrate on the 25th. However, most of those
families also celebrate or honor January 7th as Christmas based
on their religion. So for some Christian Orthodox families they
will celebrate on the 25th by exchanging gifts and a family get
together in response to the larger culture they live in. And
then they will celebrate their religions Christmas observance on
Jan. 7th, but this celebration is typically done in more
religious somber fashion by gathering the family together for a
feast. There is very little to no gift exchange, as that is done
during the Dec. 25th celebration. This is what my family and
many many other Eastern Orthodox families do who live in western
countries dominated by western Christian faiths, which are
mainly Catholic and Protestant, and the all the other faiths the
stem from Protestantism. This is com