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Christmas celebrations at the Vatican kick off with the lighting of the Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
People gather for the annual lighting of the traditional Nativity scene and the Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. IMAGES
Images show Pope Francis stepping onto the balcony of St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to deliver his annual Christmas Day "Urbi and Orbi" mass. During his speech, he called for an end to "to every war, to the very mindset of war, an aimless voyage, a defeat without victors, an inexcusable folly". IMAGES
Scouts parade in Bethlehem along with Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank ahead of Christmas Eve celebrations. IMAGES
The Vatican puts up a 27-metre-high silver fir tree in the centre of St Peter's Square. The tree, which weighs 6.5 tonnes, comes from a forest in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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