A woman chooses purchases next to a kiosk selling T-shirts with a portrait of the Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Christmas market in St.Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. The sign on the T-shirt signs ‘Putin is all right ‘. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
A man dressed as Santa Claus lights flares as he sits on a boat in Imperia, near Genoa, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A Chinese man prays during a mass on the eve of Christmas at the South Cathedral official Catholic church in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Estimates for the number of Christians in China range from the conservative official figure of 23 million to as many as 100 million by independent scholars, raising the possibility that Christians may rival in size the 85 million members of the ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Last minute Christmas shoppers are reflected in a store’s window as they walk through Chicago’s Loop Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
A butcher receives payment from a client while the pig’s head is on the table in Campo Florido east of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A man wears a giant paper mache head as he poses for photos during the traditional dance of “Los Gigantes,” or “The Giants,” during Christmas celebrations on Christmas Eve in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Volunteers clad in Santa Claus costumes throw their hats in the air as they gather to deliver gifts for the poor in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Pope Francis kisses a statue of Baby Jesus as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Pope Francis is celebrating Christmas Eve with a late-night Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and a phone call to some Iraqi refugees forced to flee their homes by Muslim militants. Francis told refugees at the tent camp in Ankawa, a suburb of Irbil in northern Iraq, that they were like Jesus, forced to flee because there was no place for them. For Christians, Christmas marks the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem barn manger, chosen because there was no room for his parents at an inn. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A man dressed as the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus poses for photographs during the early hours of Christmas Day celebrations in the Causeway Bay shopping district in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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